DrOnline

What DrOnline does

DrOnline is a direct-to-consumer telemedicine platform founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York, United States. The company enables patients to book and attend immediate, on-demand high-quality video consultations with general practitioners and medical specialists via smartphone, targeting individuals who want to avoid the long wait times, scheduling friction, and geographic constraints associated with traditional in-person clinics. DrOnline currently serves patients in three European markets — Portugal (dronline.pt), United Kingdom (dronline.uk), and Republic of Ireland (dronline.ie) — and has publicly stated an ambition to extend services globally.

Name

DrOnline

Website

https://dronline.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

DrOnline is a direct-to-consumer smartphone-based telemedicine platform offering on-demand video consultations with GPs and specialists across multiple medical specialties, currently serving patients in Portugal, the UK, and Ireland.

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

Prescription-Based Digital Clinics (Condition-Specific Rx Programs) (HLALAAAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Cross-Border Telemedicine, Second Opinion & Care Navigation Facilitators (THAKAIAM)

Keywords

• Telemedicine services
• Video medical consultations
• Online GP appointments
• Remote healthcare platform
• Specialist video consultations

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Telehealth Consultation Fees: Revenue generated from patient payments for video consultations with medical professionals across various specialties. The company emphasizes affordable pricing as a key value proposition.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

DrOnline operates a smartphone-based telemedicine platform that provides immediate and on-demand high-quality video consultations with doctors across multiple medical specialties. The service targets individual patients in Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, with flexible scheduling, short waiting times, and affordable pricing. The company operates country-specific domains (dronline.pt, dronline.uk, dronline.ie) and plans to expand globally.

Product overview

DrOnline is a unified telemedicine platform that delivers immediate and on-demand video consultations with general practitioners and medical specialists. The core DrOnline Platform enables patients to connect with healthcare providers via high-quality video calls directly from their smartphone. The company operates country-specific domains (dronline.pt, dronline.ie, dronline.uk) serving patients in Portugal, United Kingdom, and Republic of Ireland, with plans for global expansion.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• DrOnline Telemedicine Platform A telemedicine platform that provides immediate and on-demand high-quality video consultations with general practitioners and medical specialists for individual patients. Accessible via smartphone, it offers flexible scheduling, short waiting times, and affordable pricing, and currently serves patients in Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland through country-specific domains (dronline.pt, dronline.uk, dronline.ie).

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• HealthHero: HealthHero is a pan-European digital health group offering telehealth, remote consultations, and corporate health services across several markets including the UK and Ireland, operating at a broader incumbent scale than DrOnline.
• Teladoc Health: Teladoc is a global incumbent offering multi-specialty virtual care visits to consumers and employers, providing a useful scale benchmark for the DTC telehealth category in which DrOnline operates.

Direct peers

• Zava: Zava is a European DTC online doctor and telemedicine service providing remote consultations and prescriptions across multiple countries, directly comparable to DrOnline in consumer telehealth delivery.
• Doctor Anywhere: Doctor Anywhere is a multi-country telemedicine operator providing on-demand video consultations across specialties to consumers in markets such as Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines, sharing DrOnline's cross-border DTC model.
• Push Doctor: Push Doctor is a UK-based DTC telemedicine platform offering video GP appointments via smartphone, competing head-on with DrOnline in the UK consumer market.
• Kry (Livi): Kry / Livi is a direct-to-consumer video-GP platform operating across multiple European countries including the UK and Ireland, offering on-demand smartphone-based consultations across specialties — directly comparable to DrOnline's positioning.
• Babylon Health: Babylon provides on-demand video consultations and AI-assisted triage to consumers in the UK and other markets via smartphone, with multi-specialty virtual care — directly comparable in product and target customer to DrOnline.

Emerging players

• Mediktor: Mediktor offers an AI symptom-checking and triage platform used by health systems and telehealth providers across Europe, comparable as a complementary technology layer in the same virtual care category as DrOnline.
• Ada Health: Ada Health provides AI-powered symptom assessment and directs users to appropriate care, overlapping with DrOnline as a smartphone-first consumer entry point into healthcare decision-making.

Regional players

• Doctolib: Doctolib is the dominant European teleconsultation and appointment-booking platform, primarily serving France and some neighbouring markets, comparable in DTC virtual-care category but geographically distinct from DrOnline's footprint.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/dronline.usa

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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