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How Schweiger Turned the Dermatologist Wait Into a 160-Office Growth Machine
Eric Schweiger began with one Midtown office and a consumer-grade complaint: seeing a dermatologist took too long. Six messy integrations and at least $155 million of disclosed growth capital later, his group has become a coast-to-coast test of whether convenience and clinical care can scale together.
Eden Care Medical
Eden Care Medical is a licensed digital health insurer building the claims and distribution infrastructure that modernizes health insurance in Africa. Starting in Rwanda and expanding into Kenya, it sells group health cover to employers and their staff, then runs the whole value chain - HR admin portal, an employee app for navigating care and wellness, and digital tools for hospitals and clinics - to cut the cost of insurance in a market where operating costs run 2.2x the global average and penetration sits near 0.2%.
Examedi
Examedi is a Latin American digital health company that sends nurses and lab technicians to patients' homes to draw blood, run medical tests, give vaccines and connect people to doctors - booked in minutes through an app or website. Founded in Chile in 2021 and shaped in Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch, it built logistics software to route clinicians the way a delivery app routes drivers, then expanded from COVID-era PCR tests into a broader home-health marketplace spanning lab work, telemedicine, nutrition, kinesiology and mental health across Chile and Mexico.
Halodoc
Halodoc is a Jakarta-based digital health platform that lets Indonesians consult licensed doctors, order medicine for home delivery, book lab tests and appointments, and buy insurance from a single mobile app. Founded in 2016 by Jonathan Sudharta and Doddy Lukito, it connects more than 20 million monthly active users with over 20,000 doctors, 4,000+ pharmacies and 1,400+ hospitals, and has raised roughly US$258 million led by Indonesian conglomerate Astra, Temasek and Novo Holdings.
NousQ Pte Ltd
NousQ is a Singapore-based medical technology company founded in 2021 by ENT surgeon Dr Lynne Lim and engineer Gan Chee Wee. Its flagship product, CLiKX, is a handheld, robotic and sensor-controlled applicator that performs ventilation ear tube insertion with a single click. The device is designed to move ear tube surgery out of the operating theatre and general anesthesia setting into the outpatient clinic, cutting cost, wait times and trauma for the more than one million children who undergo the procedure worldwide each year.
Zaya Care
Zaya Care is a New York-based healthcare company building the largest network of in-network maternal and wellness specialists in the United States. It negotiates insurance contracts on behalf of independent practitioners - pelvic floor therapists, lactation consultants, dietitians, mental health therapists and acupuncturists - and handles credentialing, eligibility and billing so those providers can accept insurance without the administrative burden or financial risk of doing it alone. Inspired by the comprehensive European model of maternity care, Zaya gives small practices the leverage and efficiency of a large health system while letting them stay independent, and gives patients affordable, whole-person care beyond the standard OB-GYN visit.