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In 2015, the company announced that it closed
a €9.8mn round of Series B financing from
a consortium led by Harju Elekter Group, which owns electrical equipment manufacturing plants in the Nordic-Baltic markets, and UP Invest, one of largest investment firms in the Baltic region. The money were used for scaling up production of
Russian sovereign fund RDIF invests in telemedicine platform, targets 100mn potential users
East West Digital News in Moscow
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund) is investing in a telemedicine platform developed by Digital Medical Services
(a subsidiary of state corporations Rostelecom
and Rostec) and online consultation provider Doctis, reports East-West Digital News (EWDN).
While Digital Medical Services will provide expert and methodological support to meet public healthcare standards, Doctis will contribute its information system to the joint project. Doctis, which was backed in 2018 by the RDIF and
its Japanese partners, also has an artificial intelligence laboratory working on diagnosis automation and treatment process control.
The telemedicine platform will involve practitioners from Mother and Child, a network
of clinics and hospitals across 42 Russian cities. Remote consultations will be provided under health insurance programs as well as on-demand on a commercial basis.
100mn potential online patients “The demand for medical services using advanced digital
graphene-based ultracapacitors, ongoing R&D, and supporting growing sales.
Like its non-stock market quoted competitors, Skeleton Technologies does not disclose its revenue numbers, but the prediction for 2020 is circa €150mn.
technologies is growing, especially given the restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic,” stated RDIF CEO Kirill Dmitriev. The market in, which the platform will operate “which will soon exceed 100mn people,” he said.
A telemedicine law came into effect in Russia
in January 2018, allowing Russian citizens to benefit from a range of e-healthcare services. This market has been estimated at some 1.5bn rubles ($230mn) in 2019, according to data cited by Rostec deputy CEO Aleksander Nazarov.
Other large Russian tech players are already positioned on the telemedicine and online pharmacy markets. Sberbank is building a full- fledged e-health ecosystem called ‘SberZdorovye,’ based on a series of acquisitions (including DocDoc in 2017 and Eapteka in 2020).
Yandex, which invested in doctor-on-call service DOC+ in 2018, has its own e-health platform, ‘Yandex.Zdorovye.’ Mail.ru Group operates an online pharmacy, while MegaFon shut down its Megafon.Health project.