Veterinary clinics have plenty of software. Otto is betting that connecting the work between appointments matters more than adding another tool.
The Bangkok consultancy has built veterinary software and backed a mango-jelly maker. Now it sells foreign brands a practical route into Thailand: registration, imports and somewhere to sell.
Instinct Science started with one emergency veterinarian's annoyance at paper treatment sheets. Nine years, two acquisitions, and more than 360,000 veterinary users later, it is attempting something larger: turning the medical record from a filing cabinet into a clinical co-pilot.
Three founders recycled the backend of a failed location app into a workflow tool for overworked vet clinics. The useful lesson is not “pivot to pets” - it is how PetDesk wrapped old systems in a simpler customer experience, then expanded one tedious task at a time.
Digitail is a cloud-based, AI-native operating system for veterinary clinics. It unifies scheduling, medical records, invoicing, inventory, and client communication in one platform, and layers on a fleet of AI agents - branded Tails AI - that automate SOAP notes, patient summaries, intake, and treatment planning. Paired with a Pet Parent app, Digitail says it saves clinics 50+ hours of admin a month. Founded in 2018 by Sebastian Gabor and Ruxandra Pui and now headquartered in Austin, it supports over 10,000 veterinarians and 3 million pet parents, and raised a $23M Series B led by Five Elms Capital in November 2025.
Sikka.ai is a San Jose-based AI and API platform for the retail healthcare market - dentistry, veterinary, optometry, audiology, chiropractic and more. Its ONE API connects to over 400 practice management systems and roughly 96% of the market, giving developers and practices a single integration point to pull patient data, post payments, and tap 300+ KPIs. Built on de-identified data from tens of thousands of practices over two decades, Sikka also ships practice-facing analytics (Optimizer) and DentalLLM, a dental-specific large language model. Founded in 2004 by Vijay Sikka, the company processes large transaction volumes daily across more than 35,000 practice installations.
Vetcove is the veterinary industry's unified purchasing platform. It aggregates the catalogs of every major distributor, manufacturer, compounding pharmacy, and diagnostic lab into one searchable storefront, so veterinary practices can compare real-time pricing and stock across all their vendors and order from everyone in one cart. The platform is free for clinics and nonprofits; Vetcove earns revenue from vendors and hospital groups. It serves more than 23,000 veterinary practices across the United States.