ZocDoc

Founder/s: Oliver Kharraz, Nick Ganju
Key people: Oliver Kharraz (CEO & Founder), Nick Ganju (Founder), Netta Samroengraja (CFO), Joaquin Gamboa (Chief People Officer, Chief Legal Officer & Head of New Business) and Serkan Kutan (Chief Technology Officer)
Number of employees: 501 – 1k

Zocdoc is the tech company at the beginning of a better healthcare experience. Each month, millions of patients use Zocdoc to find in-network neighborhood doctors, instantly book appointments online, see what other real patients have to say, get reminders for upcoming appointments and preventive checkups, fill out their paperwork online, and more. With a mission to give power to the patient, Zocdoc’s online marketplace delivers the accessible and simple experience patients expect and deserve. Zocdoc is free for patients and available across the United States via Zocdoc.com or the Zocdoc app for iPhone and Android.

Business model

Zocdoc medical personnel. The scheduling system can be accessed by subscribers both as an online service and via the deployed office calendar software, or integrated with their websites. The subscriber’s schedules are available to the patients.

The end user-searchable database includ es specialties, range of services, office locations, photographs, personnel educational background and user-submitted reviews. For each doctor the users are able to review the free slots in the schedule and make appointments for specific time slots.

Availability

The service the TechCrunch40 conference in 2007. Initially limited to Manhattan, it has since expanded to cover 40% of the U.S. population across 2000+ cities, and is used by more than 5,000,000 people per month,er IThe service may be used as Android, iOS, or web application, as well as Spanish-language version with the launch of Zocdoc en Español.

In October 2012, the company launched its first new product since inception: Zocdoc Check-in, which allows patients to fill out their paperwork online in advance of their visit.

As of June 2013, the company had raised over $95 million in venture capital from investors.