20 Amazing Stats and Facts About Vezeeta

1. About Vezeeta.com

Vezeeta.com is the leading digital healthcare booking platform and practice management software in MENA. They are pioneering the shift to automated physician, clinic, and hospital bookings making healthcare easily accessible in the region.

2. Founded in Feb 2012

3. Founder and CEO:  Amir Barsoum

4. Director of Product Management: Mohammad El Mougi

5. Website: www.vezeeta.com

6. Company type: Private

7. Industry: Healthcare Industry

8. Headquarters: 124 Othman Ibn Affan, Al Matar, El Nozha, Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

9. Branches: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Kenya & Nigeria.

10. Total Employees: 201-500 employees

11. About Amir Barsoum: Amir is an all-time entrepreneur; he established his first company directly after graduation. He successfully grew it into a well-established FMCG importer and distributor. Later he exited and moved into the corporate world learning to build bigger companies and industry disrupters. Before Vezeeta, Amir was a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company where he provided expertise for Healthcare and FMCGs across public and private sectors in Europe and MENA. He also led the strategy creation of AstraZeneca in MENA. He holds an MBA from the American University of Cairo and a Bachelor of Pharmacy from Ain Shams University. Amir is also an endeavor entrepreneur.

12. Features:

• Book an in-clinic or a hospital appointment.
• Order your medicines online from the pharmacy.
• Book a teleconsultation with a specialized doctor.
• Consult an internist instantly through a voice or a video call.
• Book a specialized doctor to visit you at home.
• Book laboratory tests, procedures, or operations.
• Doctor ratings are from patients who booked and visited the doctor through Vezeeta.
• Your booking is automatically confirmed, as the doctor specifies his working hours and is notified of the booking details
• The consultation fees stated on Vezeeta are the actual doctor’s fees with no extra charges.
• Receive text message reminders before your appointment.
• Read more about the doctor and learn about their education, experience, and background.
• Keep track of your physicians and easily schedule follow-up appointments.
• Search for your medicine, upload the prescription or call a pharmacist.
• Reorder your medicine through the application, and consult a pharmacist whenever you need to.
• Select from 30 different medical specialties; including Dermatology, Dentistry, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry, Neurology, Paediatrics, Orthopaedics, and many more.

13. Vezeeta Care Loyalty Program: Vezeeta care is the loyalty program providing Vezeeta customers with benefits, whereby they can earn and redeem Vezeeta points with every transaction placed on the pharmacy

14. Total Funding amount: $73 M till Feb 2022

15. Awards:

• Featured in the 2019 Global Digital Health journal as one of the top 100 players in digital health globally
• Ranked as No. 3 by Forbes ME 2018 Top 100 Start-ups
• Ranked as No. 5 by Forbes ME 2017 Top 100 Start-ups

16. Partnership companies:
Financial services: Xero and Financial Force
CRM Service: Salesforce
Hospitals: Dar Al Fouad, Saudi German Hospital, and Andalusia Group

17. Impact: Vezeeta is closing in on 3 million appointments per year, with more than 13,000 healthcare providers subscribed on the platform serving more than 3 million patients in the region.

18. Competitive Advantages:

They enable patients to search, choose and book the right healthcare provider through data and knowledge.

With over 350k verified ratings and reviews listed on the platform, waiting time, consultation fees, doctors’ profiles, clinic/hospital location, etc., patients can make informed decisions about their medical needs.

19. Vezeeta Investors: Silicon Badia, Gulf Capital, IFC, Endeavor Catalyst, BECO Capital, Vostok New Ventures, Technology Development Fund, Crescent Enterprises Venture Capital, STV, Saudi Technology Ventures, CE-Ventures, Endeavour Catalyst.

20. Vezeeta had reportedly laid off about 10% of his employees in June 2022.