OnAmendment

NaAmendment is a Russian medical tech startup that began work in 2014, developing a service for online appointment with doctors in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other regions. In the application, you can choose a doctor for reviews, compare prices and sign up for a private or state clinic without a call. Also available in the program are personalized medical recommendations and health articles written by physicians. NaAmendment is integrated into the Tinkoff Bank application, Yandex and GIS services.

The service earns on attracting clients to medical organizations. The partners of NaAmendment include the networks of clinics Medsi"" and "Scandinavia."

Performance indicators

2020: Revenue - 69.9 million rubles, loss - 100.1 million rubles

According to data from the Kontur. Focus system, in 2020 the revenue of NaAmendment amounted to 69.9 million rubles, a net loss of 100.1 million rubles. A service that allows you to make an appointment with a doctor, compare prices and promotions from private clinics, state medical centers, choose a specialist in reviews of other patients, earns on attracting clients to medical organizations.

2019

In 2019, the revenue of the NaAmendment service amounted to 68.9 million rubles, net loss - 25.3 million rubles (data from Kontur. Focus). About 1 million patients use the service every month.

History

2022: Launch of Subscription Telemedicine Service

In September 2022, the first telemedicine subscription service in Russia was launched. At least, this is what the NaAmendment company, which implemented this project, says.

You can subscribe for 1, 3 or 12 months. The number of consultations for the paid period is not limited. The subscription costs from 499 rubles a month, it applies to five family members.

The first telemedicine service in Russia has been launched

Consultations with doctors are held in the format of an asynchronous online chat. You can ask about diseases, symptoms, appointments, test results, tax deduction for the provision of medical services.

Based on the results of the consultation, the patient receives a medical opinion with the recommendations of the doctor. If a full-time visit to the doctor is required, you can sign up for it during the consultation.

According to the service's website, when buying a subscription, users receive a 20 percent discount on purchases at pharmacies and laboratories at Invitro and Lifetime.

The company emphasizes that the service has assembled its own team of doctors, which can be trusted. Doctors undergo careful selection - only 3% successfully perform medical testing and get into the team. Doctors do not have sales plans and bonuses for prescribing unnecessary examinations and drugs.

To subscribe, you need to download the OnAmendment mobile application and perform the following actions:

• Log in to the application.
• Open the Subscription section.
• Choose a rate and pay in any suitable way: by credit card or through SberPay. Each tariff includes all the advantages of "Amendment Plus," but differs in the duration of the period. The longer the period the user pays, the lower the cost of the subscription month.^[1]

2021: Raising $5 million in investments

In early December 2021, it became known about investing $5 million in the Russian service for online appointment with a doctor "NaAmendment." The startup has invested in the Swedish investment fund VNV Global, the Russian investment holding Avenir and the founder of the recruiting site JobStreet Mark Chang.

The funds raised by the NaAmendment team will spend on marketing, development in the regions and the launch of new products in 2022. Over the past six months, through the application, they began to sign up for doctors five times more often, said in early December 2021, the company's general director Alexander Pechersky, who did not name the exact number of users of the service.

Service for appointment with a doctor "NaAmendment" attracted $5 million investments

By December 2021, 100% of the company belongs to Napopravka Cyprus Limited, registered in Cyprus.

Participants in the commercial medical market interviewed by RBC note that over the past year, no large independent services have been created on the market.

Aggregators of online appointments to doctors may be of interest to multidisciplinary private or dental clinics when it comes to inexpensive and urgent services. For example, to pass tests or cure a sick tooth, "says Vitaly Avaliani, chief physician of the St. Petersburg ophthalmological clinic" I see. "

According to the expert, serious services, such as in his clinic (laser correction of vision and cataract treatment), first involve studying the service market and only then choosing a medical institution.^[2]

2020: Raising $2.25 million in investments

On September 14, 2020, the NaAmendment service announced the attraction of $2.25 million in investments. The Swedish investment fund VNV Global, which previously invested in Avito, Tinkoff, BlaBlaCar, Gett and Babylon, has invested in the medical project.

In addition, the founder of the Malaysian recruiting service JobStreet.com Mark Chang and the investment holding Avenir, which was a key external investor in NaAmendment, took part in the financing round.

Russian medical startup NaAmendment raised $2.25 million

It is reported that the deal was closed in August 2020, but it was announced only in mid-September. How much money each of the investors provided is not specified, as well as their shares in the project.

The medical tech startup is going to spend the funds received from investors on launching the service in the regions and improving the mobile application. In particular, it is planned to add the ability to store medical documents there. In the future, the service will also be connected to VTB's "super application." ^[3]

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