The problem
A patient with a sick child in Doha faced a familiar maze: no trusted directory of who treats what, clinic phone lines that never pick up, and zero sense of which doctor is actually available this week.
How it works
Meddy built verified profiles for private doctors across Qatar and the UAE — specialty, location, reviews, live availability — and let patients book in a few taps. On the other side, clinics got a dashboard managing those bookings plus marketing tools that made their doctors discoverable and their schedules full.
Pain points
Invisible clinics, endless phone tag, and patients defaulting to whichever doctor a relative happened to know.
Business model
Clinics and hospitals paid for patient acquisition and presence: marketing subscriptions and booking-driven packages that tied Meddy’s revenue to filled appointment slots.
Challenges
Regional booking giants Vezeeta and Okadoc chased the same clinics, providers listed on multiple platforms at once, and Meddy’s consumer booking strength stopped short of the deep hospital EMR systems enterprise clients wanted.
Funding
- Raised: $1.8M Series A with participation from 212 Capital, Qatar Science & Technology Park, Kasamar Holdings, Dharmendra Ghai, Innoway and others (Entrepreneur).
- Valuation: MISSING.
Latest — November 2021
On 10 November 2021 Nigeria- and US-based Helium Health acquired Meddy for an undisclosed amount, merging it with its HeliumDoc platform; CEO Haris Aghadi and COO Abed Alkarim Khattab joined Helium’s leadership to drive its GCC strategy (TechCrunch, Entrepreneur).