Doctoralia opens new offices to meet growth demands

October 13, 2019
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This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

The health marketplace to find doctors through the internet has opened offices on the ninth floor of the Platinum @ BCN building by WeWork.

The 22 @ continues to rise. This emerging district of Barcelona is a pole of attraction for many of the technology companies and also of the health sector with a presence in the Catalan capital. Some companies decide to break in for the first time and others, such as Doctoralia, expand their presence in the area to cope with their growth.

The Spanish platform, which brings together professionals from the health sector and patients through the Internet, has just opened new offices at 22 @, specifically at number 194 on Pallars street in Barcelona. The company has decided to move seventy people from its hub in Spain to the ninth floor of the Platinum @ BCN building, a coworking space owned by WeWork, according to Carlos Villaverde, Financial Director of Doctoralia, to PlantaDoce.

This measure will not mean the closure of its main offices in Josep Pla street in Barcelona, ​​which will continue to house the rest of the team. Currently, Doctoralia employs around 200 workers in the country. "The current building cannot accommodate the growth of the group and that is why we have made this decision," adds Villaverde.

This growth in the number of employees has also been perceived in terms of users. Doctoralia reached 25 million annual followers in Spain in 2018, 28% more than in 2017, according to data provided by the company. Also, the number of appointment reservations with specialists made through the platform quadrupled in the last year, reaching 460,000 meetings.

The company's expansion has been possible thanks to its merger with DocPlanner, a competitor from Eastern Europe with an international presence. The operation was closed in June 2016 for an amount that did not transcend. Frederich Llordachs, co-founder of the company, became a shareholder of the group and holds the position of head of business development, while the other two founders, David Diaz and Albert Armengol, maintained the property although they moved away from the day's management.

The alliance allowed Doctoralia to gain solidity and resources to grow in Latin America. The DocPlanner group closed a round of fifteen million euros in 2017, which served to expand the brand to Mexico and Brazil and start opening a market in Chile and Colombia. In addition, last May DocPlanner closed another round of eighty million. The operation was led by One Peak Partners and Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing.

DocPlanner closed 2018 with a turnover of 22.5 million euros, of which 2.3 million were generated in Spain. The group's goal is to reach 3.5 million in sales in 2019, according to Villaverde. However, the executive emphasizes that the Internet Doctoralia company (which covers different countries, including Spain, Brazil or Chile) invoiced 7.5 million euros last year.

In order to expand its presence in Latin America, Doctoralia plans to open several offices in 2019 in Chile and Colombia, after having already landed with a multidisciplinary team in Bogotá where it is expected to reach fifty employees before the end of the year.

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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