BREAKING - Pulse Protocol signs 100+ doctors across 32 hospitals & clinics 10,000+ medical & dental procedures facilitated Formerly MedRepublic - pitched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2016 Backed by Amplify.LA, Afore Capital & Kima Ventures Mission: make medical travel the preferred path, not the last resort BREAKING - Pulse Protocol signs 100+ doctors across 32 hospitals & clinics 10,000+ medical & dental procedures facilitated Formerly MedRepublic - pitched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2016 Backed by Amplify.LA, Afore Capital & Kima Ventures Mission: make medical travel the preferred path, not the last resort
Los Angeles, California  /  Health Tech  /  Seed Stage

Pulse Protocol

The plug-and-play platform quietly rewiring how patients cross borders for care - one coordinator, one dashboard, one honest price at a time.

100+
Doctors under contract
32
Hospitals & clinics
10K+
Procedures facilitated
70
Yrs combined experience
Pulse Protocol logo
FIG. 1 - The Pulse mark. A heartbeat drawn straight through the logotype: the whole pitch in a single line - keep the patient's pulse steady, wherever the surgery happens.
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The Dispatch

Somewhere over the Pacific, a stranger is on your side

A patient in Los Angeles opens a laptop at 11pm and types a quiet, terrifying question into a search bar: how much does this surgery cost, and can I trust a doctor I have never met, in a country I have never visited? For twenty years the honest answer was a shrug. Medical travel meant forums, rumor, a cousin who knew a guy, and a wire transfer sent on faith. Pulse Protocol exists to end the shrug.

What Pulse actually sells is not a booking engine. It is the person who answers that 11pm question. When a patient joins the ecosystem, they are paired with a certified, multilingual care coordinator - someone who knows the procedure, speaks the patient's language, and works as an advocate rather than a salesperson. Around that human sits the software: a secure dashboard where a clinic in Cancun and a patient in California can track every step, quote, payment and outcome in one place.

"Legitimize the medical travel industry as not only a viable path, but often as the preferred path - one that empowers patients with dignified choice, price transparency, and advocacy."- Pulse Protocol, company mission

It is an unglamorous ambition dressed in unglamorous tools. And that is precisely the point. The flashy version of this story was told years ago, when the company was called MedRepublic and talked about a blockchain-powered, "trustless" hub for global healthcare. The version that survived is quieter: keep the useful promise - validated data, visible prices - and ship the rest as software people actually use.

The Product

A plug-and-play platform for the medical travel business

Platform

Pulse Platform

Automates and streamlines patient management for providers - matching, secure communications, payment processing, invoicing and revenue analytics in one dashboard.

People

Care Coordinator Network

An on-demand team of multilingual, certified coordinators matched to a provider's procedures and a patient's language. Advocates, not order-takers.

Growth

Medical Travel Marketing

Industry-specific marketing and lead generation to attract and qualify high-intent medical travelers - built for a category most agencies don't understand.

Data

Provider Dashboard

Track step-by-step patient actions, outcomes, bookings and revenue, with integrated quoting, invoicing and accounting for predictable growth.

The Traction

Who plugs in - and what they get out

Three groups meet on the platform: surgeons, dentists, hospitals and clinics who want patients who show up and pay; independent care coordinators who want high-intent leads and a global roster of vetted doctors; and patients who simply want someone trustworthy between them and a healthcare system that wasn't built for them. The reported footprint to date:

Doctors contracted
100+
Hospitals & clinics
32
Procedures facilitated
10,000+
Team experience
70 yrs combined
Figures self-reported by Pulse Protocol. Bars scaled for illustration, not to a common axis.
The People

Insiders who built the industry, then built for it

Pulse's founding team didn't parachute into medical tourism looking for a market. They helped create the thing - conferences, certification programs, guidebooks - and then turned around to build the software the industry lacked.

RP
Founder & CEO

Global-health builder since 2000. Led three medical travel ventures - MedToGo International, MedRepublic and Pulse. Co-author of three industry guidebooks.

JE
Jonathan Edelheit
Co-founder

Co-founder of the Medical Tourism Association, with 16 years building prominent medical tourism organizations.

RS
Renee-Marie Stephano
Co-founder

Co-founder of the Medical Tourism Association and Global Healthcare Resources; a fixture of the medical travel world.

The Arc

From MedToGo to token to platform

SINCE 2000
Founding team begins building the medical tourism industry - conferences, certifications and price-transparency advocacy.
2015
Pulse Protocol, Inc. founded (originally as MedRepublic).
2016
Selected among the top 25 new tech companies to pitch at TechCrunch Disrupt.
~2018
Explores a "PULSE" token and blockchain "trustless" hub for decentralized healthcare, before pivoting to SaaS-plus-services.
2021
Relaunches as the "Plug & Play Medical Travel Platform"; latest reported seed funding brings total raised to roughly $810K.
The Money

Seed-stage and stubborn

A small round from a serious cap table. Roughly $810K raised across seed backing, with a latest reported raise in May 2021. Investors of record:

Round: Seed
Total raised: ~$810K
Latest: May 2021
Amplify.LA
Afore Capital
Kima Ventures
Streetedge Capital
Cherry Tree Ventures
The Margins

Things that amuse and inform

The Close

Back to the laptop, 11pm

Return to that patient in Los Angeles, laptop glowing, cursor blinking in the search bar. The question hasn't changed - how much, and can I trust this? But the answer has. Instead of a forum thread and a leap of faith, there is a name, a coordinator who calls back, a price on a screen that doesn't move after you agree to it, and a dashboard tracking the whole thing from consult to recovery.

Pulse Protocol didn't cure the fear of getting surgery in an unfamiliar country. It did something smaller and more useful: it put a person and a paper trail between the patient and the void. In an industry built on rumor, that is the disruptive act - not the token, not the marketplace, but the quiet promise that when you look up from the laptop, someone qualified is already on your side.