BOTdesign raises 1 million euros with the ambition to become the reference solution for coordinating hospital follow-up and patients’ return home
Since 2017, BOTdesign has been developing tailor-made solutions such as medical chatbots and instant messaging, integrating European standards for securing health data. This 1 million euro funding round, supported by the Occitanie Ouest Entrepreneur Fund managed by M Capital, Toulouse-based business angels, BPI, Crédit Mutuel, and Banque Populaire, will allow BOTdesign to accelerate its deployment.
Olivier Thuillart and Jean-Louis Fraysse, Co-founders of BOTdesign
New perspectives for BOTdesign
BOTdesign’s strategy aligns with the goals of the government’s “Ma Santé 2022” plan, which aims to maintain the connection between patients and healthcare providers through digital tools. BOTdesign fills the missing link between the hospital and the patient during key moments, such as the return home after hospitalization, pre-surgical needs, and disease screening in case of suspicion. BOTdesign’s solutions provide a complete and up-to-date view of the patient’s health journey, traceable with real-time exchanges of their records, exams, analyses, prescriptions, and imaging. BOTdesign creates a collaborative bubble and rehumanizes the relationship by allowing healthcare providers to focus on interacting with the patient rather than on administrative and logistical aspects.Security goal
One of the startup’s strengths is owning its instant messaging system as well as the platform for programming conversational bots. Everything is hosted in HDS (Health Data Hosting). This ensures the security of the exchanged data and prevents any algorithm changes by major global hosting providers (such as WhatsApp or Facebook, for example). This funding round will enable BOTdesign to double its workforce and significantly increase the number of users by offering its solutions to hospitals, healthcare and social establishments, as well as independent practitioners. Currently, 2,000 patients and healthcare providers use BOTdesign’s solutions.BOTdesign solutions address the entire care pathway
- Preparation
- Anaesthetic consultation
- Pre-filling the anaesthesia file
- Patient follow-up
- Peri-operative vascular surgery
- Post-oncology follow-up between two chemotherapy protocols
- ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) patient follow-up
About BOTdesign
BOTdesign develops innovative digital solutions in the field of e-health, including chatbots operating in a health data hosting (HDS) environment, with expertise in managing integrated and complex projects.
The company also develops an encrypted and secure instant messaging system for health data, as well as dashboard solutions that allow healthcare professionals to optimize their time by qualifying their active patient list based on the urgency to act.
BOTdesign was founded in April 2017 by Jean-Louis Fraysse, a pharmacist and chronic disease and e-health specialist, and by Olivier Thuillart, a biomedical engineer and expert in new technologies applied to healthcare.
More broadly, BOTdesign represents the ability of startups to quickly provide adapted solutions in times of crisis. These solutions are referenced and evaluated by the Digital Health Council services to ensure the safety of populations. The current health emergency situation highlights the potential of digital tools to support healthcare professionals and patients isolated from hospitals. BOTdesign is involved in this effort to deploy connected healthcare services.
Olivier Thuillart : othuillart@botdesign.net
About MCAPITAL
Active for 18 years, M Capital is one of the leading French private investment firms, with over 530 million euros in assets managed and/or advised on behalf of financial institutions, private clients, and public organizations. Through its four business sectors—Private Equity, Venture, Real Estate, and Private Debt—M Capital is committed to channeling both private and public savings towards projects that are virtuous in terms of economic, environmental, and social impact. Its 50 employees share a common goal: to create value for the investors who trust us, for the entrepreneurs we support, and for society as a whole.
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