Nearly 1 000 people will attend this free event to hear about all stuff happening in the startup community. It is an opportunity to meet experienced people, make friends and learn how to build a great company.

Early this year, one of the most valuable companies in the world, IKEA, launched an unprecedented accelerator program. There will be a chance to hear from the people who built it. The event will also enable talking with the CTO of Prisjakt and the Head of Technology at Min Doktor about building innovative tech teams.

Furthermore, the CEO of inRiver will talk about his personal and professional journey with the company. There will be even an investor at inRiver and a board member, who will present their perspectives in this connection.

For more details and registration, click: http://mailchi.mp/malmostartups/announcing-startup-live-december-6-at-slagthuset?e=0e604e1e06

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MinDoktor was founded by physician Magnus Nyhlén in 2013. The service provides digital medical attention, where patients describe their problems by answering a few simple questions about themselves and the symptoms they have. By means of written communication, telephone or video, doctors then give a diagnosis and send prescriptions directly to patients’ mobiles.

In 2015 MinDoktor signed a cooperation agreement with Länsförsäkringar and Skandia, that helped the company gain over 50% of the market for private health insurance, according to MinDoktor’s COO Charlotta Tönsgård. The same year the company has also taken an investment of about 22 million SEK (over 2 million euro) from a number of prominent investors.

2015 ended for MinDoktor with a loss and a turnover of 6.5 million SEK. The new capital will be used to scale up operations in Sweden and reach out to more individuals as an alternative to traditional healthcare services. There are also plans to open up the service to new patient groups. MinDoktor will also receive Lars Jörnow as a board member.

“Now we have the space to do everything we want. Our goal is to be a part of tomorrow’s health care system by revolutionizing healthcare flow. Digitization of health care can really help those are in strong need of visiting a doctor. The problem of current system is not the lack of resources but how they are used,” – says Charlotta Tönsgård.

As for EQT Ventures, the fund has hired several big names to carry out investments in young, rapidly growing technology and Internet companies. Among the investors are Hjalmar Winbladh, founder of Rebtel and Wrapp, Booking.com veteran Kees Koolen and Lars Jörnow, who has a long experience as a head of King. The size of the venture capital company’s new fund is unknown, but it is speculated to be between 3-7 billion SEK.

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MinDoktor is a platform where patients describe their problems by answering a few simple questions about themselves and the symptoms they have. Shortly after, usually within half an hour, one of the 25 doctors who is connected to the My Doctor system decides on further action, which could, for example, involve an x-ray, sampling or further doctor appointment.

“Around 5 per cent need to get an additional video consultation, but the idea is that it will not be needed. I myself am a doctor and have seen the great challenges that healthcare is facing. So there is a big interest in finding a new way to get patients flow through the health care system,” says Magnus Nyhlén, the founder.

Critics would argue that the personal contact is lost, but so far no one raised that as an issue, according to Magnus Nyhlén. As for the investment, it will be put towards the expansion.

“The focus is to roll out the service to more consumers and to complete a number of partnerships with insurers. Presently we work with Euro Accident, for example. In the coming year the plan is to go to Denmark” says Magnus Nyhlén.

And after that, the expansion will continue to other European countries. MinDoktor is currently looking into the Dutch market as well.

Currently MinDoktor has 25 doctors who are connected to the service, as well as over 30 employees. Recently they hired four people with a background in IT from TAT. Up until now, MinDoktor has taken care of about 10,000 patients.

Back in March Sweden has seen a launch of another healthcare service Kry, where patients can have a video meeting with a doctor, which received a great deal of attention. With that said, many interesting developments in the Swedish healthcare market are on the way.

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