Doctorium

What Doctorium does

Doctorium srl is an Italian telemedicine company headquartered in Catanzaro, Italy, founded in 2016. The company operates a consumer-facing telemedicine platform, doctorium.it, that connects individual patients with a vetted network of more than 350 medical specialists across 45+ specialties for online video consultations. Patients can search by specialty, view doctor profiles, ratings, and pricing, and book consultations directly through the website or a mobile app. The platform also offers an urgent consultation channel with a guaranteed one-hour response routed through a contact form and WhatsApp follow-up. The company is privately held with 51–100 employees and one disclosed funding round of approximately $519,045 from CDP Equity in December 2020; ownership beyond that has not been publicly disclosed.

The platform is built on a web-based telemedicine stack with secure clinical document upload, integrated messaging, post-consultation chat (7-day retention), digital medical reports, and prescription issuance. Doctorium enforces a doctor-vetting standard of at least 5 years of clinical experience plus a medical specialization, and holds ISO 27001 certification for information security, addressing a key compliance requirement for handling protected health data. Operational coverage runs 7 days a week from 07:00 to 23:00, including weekends.

Doctorium's revenue model is a per-consultation transaction-fee structure: each doctor sets their own fee, displayed on the platform, and Doctorium captures a portion of each completed booking. Pricing publicly observed ranges from approximately €45 for a 15-minute pediatrics consult to €145 for a 60-minute gastroenterology initial consult. Customer acquisition is driven by content marketing and SEO around specialty- and symptom-keyword pages, supplemented by earned media in Italian outlets such as La Repubblica, Mediaset, Startup Italia, Milano Finanza, Marie Claire, and Gente. The primary customer segment is individual patients (B2C, long-tail), and the formal operating geography is Italy, although the website claims worldwide doctor access.

Name

Doctorium

Legal name

Doctorium srl

Website

https://doctorium.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Doctorium is an Italian telemedicine platform connecting individual patients with 350+ vetted medical specialists across 45+ specialties via online video consultations, urgent consults, secure document sharing, and 7-day post-consultation chat.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Telemedicine Services

NAICS

Offices of Physicians (62111)

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011)

akta.pro primary industry

Primary Care & General Medicine Virtual Care (HLALAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

24/7 On-Demand Urgent Care Virtual Visit Platforms (HLALAJAA)

Keywords

• Telemedicine platform
• Video consultations
• Online medical specialists
• Urgent teleconsultation
• Second opinion services

Headquarters

HQ city

Catanzaro

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Video Consultation Fees: Doctorium generates revenue through per-consultation fees paid by patients. Each doctor sets their own pricing for consultations of varying durations (15, 30, or 60 minutes). The platform facilitates the booking and payment processing for these transactions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Doctorium provides an online telemedicine platform that enables patients to book and conduct video consultations with over 350 medical specialists covering more than 45 specialties. The platform supports both scheduled and urgent video consultations, with post-consultation chat, online triage, secure document handling, and WhatsApp-based access, certified under ISO 27001.

Product overview

Doctorium is a telemedicine platform offering online medical consultations (Videoconsulti) with over 350 verified specialists across 45+ medical specialties. The core product is the video consultation service, supplemented by an urgent consultation option (Videoconsulto Urgente) with guaranteed response within one hour. Additional features include online triage to match patients with appropriate specialists, secure document upload capabilities, post-consultation chat access for 7 days, and medical report/prescription delivery. All doctors must have at least 5 years of experience and a specialization. The platform operates daily from 07:00 to 23:00, including weekends.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Videoconsulto

Quantifiable outcome

• Response within 1 hour for urgent consultations
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• AequaminorOthersAequa is listed as a partner organization, though the specific nature of the partnership is not detailed on the website.
• PharmaliteRisorsaminorOthersPharmaliteRisorsa is listed as a partner organization on Doctorium's partner page.
• innovagenomeminorOthersinnovagenome is listed as a partner organization, potentially in the genomics/health innovation space.
• innovabiohealthminorOthersinnovabiohealth is listed as a partner organization, potentially in the health/biotech innovation space.
• anpvuminorOthersanpvu (Associazione Nazionale Pensionati della Veterinaria?) is listed as a partner organization.
• EccellenzeitalianeminorOthersEccellenzeitaliane is listed as a partner, potentially representing Italian excellence/excellence brands.
• Ordine provincialeminorOthersOrdine provinciale (Provincial Medical Board) is listed as a partner, indicating potential collaboration with medical professional organizations.
• Il caduceominorOthersIl caduceo is listed as a partner organization.
• Doctor shopminorOthersDoctor shop is listed as a partner organization, potentially in the pharmaceutical/health products space.
• ArcidiaconominorOthersArcidiacono is listed as a partner organization.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• MioDottore: Italy's leading D2C doctor-booking and telehealth platform, part of Docplanner Group. Operates the same search-by-specialty, book-a-consultation model as Doctorium and is the closest direct competitor in the Italian market.
• Doctoralia: Pan-European D2C doctor-booking platform (Docplanner-owned) active in Italy. Provides identical core functionality (specialty search, profile, booking, telehealth) and competes for the same patient and doctor funnels.
• Dottori.it: Italy-based D2C doctor directory and booking site with telehealth functionality. Direct functional overlap with Doctorium in specialty search and online consultation booking.
• Paginemediche: Italian online healthcare platform combining doctor search, booking and health-content resources. Comparable in serving Italian patients searching for specialists and booking consultations.

Broad incumbents

• Docplanner: Parent company of MioDottore and Doctoralia; a global, venture-backed healthcare-booking incumbent. Direct strategic pressure on Doctorium through its Italian subsidiaries and unmatched capital depth.
• Doctolib: European leader in online doctor booking and telehealth (France-headquartered, multi-country). Operates a broader incumbent model (appointment + video + patient management software) that overlaps with Doctorium's telehealth layer.
• Zocdoc: US-based D2C doctor-booking and telehealth marketplace. Not a direct Italian competitor but the canonical peer category for the search-by-specialty, book-direct model Doctorium executes in Italy.
• Teladoc Health: Global telehealth incumbent offering on-demand urgent and specialty virtual care. Broad incumbent comparable in the video-consultation product category that Doctorium sells into the Italian market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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