This online registration platform has become the most valuable start-up company in New York.

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Summary] ZocDoc offers 5 million people a month to find doctors and online booking services.

Tencent Science and technology news June 18, online doctor appointment platform ZocDoc has now become New York's start-up circle in the "New king."

Founded in 2007, ZocDoc is designed to help patients find and book doctors online via mobile devices. According to the documents disclosed at the end of May, the company recently raised a new 1. 500 million dollars, the market is valued at about 1.5 billion dollars.

However, the company did not disclose the latest round of financing of the investment side. According to documents, in the D-round financing, ZocDoc sold 5.41 million shares at a price of $28.22 per share, and the financing amounted to $151.2 million.

According to data released by CB Insights, a market research firm, ZocDoc's current market valuations have surpassed the $1.2 billion trillion mongodb of big data companies, making it the most expensive start-up in New York.

Today, hedge funds, private-equity firms and mutual funds are investing in private technology companies with unprecedented enthusiasm, which has resulted in a flood of money pouring into the internet and mobile-service start-ups, which have been given the best chance of development since the dotcom bubble.

Although New York has a proud start-up, such as the lightweight blogger Tumblr sold to Yahoo for 1.1 billion dollars, social marketing platform Buddy Media was Salesforce.com, but the world-famous metropolis still lags behind Silicon Valley in attracting capital levels. Almost half of the U.S. capital went to Silicon Valley in the first quarter of this year, according to National Venture Capital Association, and New York companies only gained 10%.

ZocDoc's business covers two hot industries in the network market and commercial software. Individuals are free to use the services provided by the company, and doctors are required to pay 3000 of dollars per annum to join the ZocDoc.

According to the data provided by the company, more than 5 million people in more than 2000 cities in the United States use their services every month.

Just like foreign short term rental websites Airbnb help landlords rent out free rooms and private cabs Uber help car owners showmanship, ZocDoc also helps doctors to ensure that there are enough patients, but not overcrowding. In a word, people do their best to avoid wasting resources. The market valuations for Airbnb and Uber are now at $10 billion trillion and 17 billion dollars respectively. (LI)