been on demand complete 21 million dollars

The wave of services on demand surges. Take a taxi to eat domestic, various types of services on demand for the start-up of the two years surging, this is medical services.

been on demand for medical services on demand today announced the completion of a 21 million dollar a round of financing, with the participants being Venrock, Shasta Ventures and Richard Branson, while launching web-based applications. Been on demand was founded in 2012, but was officially launched at the end of 2013, and it announced a 3 million-dollar seed-round financing, with the investors Venrock, a16z and Google Ventures.

We have previously reported this company, simply said it is the medical version of the Uber, connecting doctors and patients, patients can be mobile or PC on demand to access the doctor's remote services, both sides can be video chat form to communicate, can also send text or pictures. A doctor can receive 30 to 40 dollars per consultation.

In addition to financing and web-side products, been on demand also signed the first major customer, Comcast, the largest cable TV, broadband network and IP telephony provider in the United States, according to the 2011 data, the market value of Comcast is $15.7 billion and employs 126,000. After the deal is reached, Comcast will integrate been on demand's services into the health benefits of its own staff, and may be reimbursed for all video counseling.

The popularization of mobile terminals plus the improvement of payment means, and then catch a reasonable evaluation system, the three contributed to the new on-demand services, and in the past in the small town on demand, it can scale to the global market. There are already 1 billion companies with valuations such as Uber and Lyft, and a number of fast-growing youngsters such as SpoonRocket, Sprig, handybook and blue apron. It ' s coming.