Giraffe Healthcare Cic

What Giraffe Healthcare Cic does

Giraffe Healthcare CIC is a Community Interest Company and 2020 spin-out from Glasgow Caledonian University, registered in Scotland (company number SC595189), that operates a web-based platform for the remote delivery of personalised physiotherapy, occupational therapy, podiatry, and speech therapy programmes. The platform is built around an extensive library of condition-specific exercises with video instructions and a customisable education section, supported by an in-platform secure messaging function that enables clinicians to monitor patient progress and adjust programmes remotely. Target clinical populations include neurological (e.g., Multiple Sclerosis), cardiovascular, respiratory, orthopaedic, rheumatological, palliative care, and podiatry patients, with surveys reporting 96% of clinicians rating the platform as excellent or good, 74% finding it easy or very easy to use, and 68% finding it beneficial to their services.

The company runs a primarily product-led, self-serve go-to-market: the platform is accessible directly via giraffehealth.com with a 14-day free trial, and pricing is not publicly disclosed. Distribution spans a direct online channel for individuals and SMB healthcare providers (global reach claimed), alongside direct sales to NHS trusts and channel/partnership relationships with third-sector and hospice organisations in the UK domestic market. The COVID-19 pandemic was an inflection point during which Giraffe offered free access to NHS, third-sector, and hospice customers to enable remote rehabilitation; a 2023 peer-reviewed paper in Clinical Rehabilitation subsequently demonstrated cost-effectiveness versus usual care for people moderately affected by Multiple Sclerosis. Ownership and capital structure are consistent with a UK social enterprise: a CIC reinvests profits into mission, no venture or growth equity rounds are disclosed, and Glasgow Caledonian University is referenced as the founding academic parent. The company has no disclosed revenue, headcount, certifications, patents, AI/ML features, or third-party integrations in the available data.

Name

Giraffe Healthcare Cic

Legal name

Giraffe Healthcare CIC

Website

https://giraffehealth.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Giraffe Healthcare CIC is a Community Interest Company spin-out from Glasgow Caledonian University that provides a web-based platform for remote, personalised physiotherapy, occupational therapy, podiatry, and speech therapy programmes, serving NHS, third-sector, hospice, and individual patients with clinical conditions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Health / Telerehabilitation Platform

NAICS

Home Health Care Services (62161)

SIC

Services-Home Health Care Services (8082)

akta.pro primary industry

Remote Diagnostics & Point-of-Care (Connected Testing, Home Lab Devices) (HLACAPAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Inpatient Hospice / General Inpatient Care (GIP) at Home-Managed (HSABAFAC)

Keywords

• Remote physiotherapy platform
• Online rehabilitation services
• Telehealth exercise programmes
• Podiatry telerehabilitation
• Digital therapy delivery

Headquarters

HQ city

Glasgow

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Platform Subscription: Healthcare providers and patients access the online physiotherapy and podiatry platform, likely through a subscription or per-user licensing model based on the platform's delivery model and free trial offering

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Giraffe Healthcare CIC provides a web-based online platform for the remote delivery, monitoring, and personalisation of physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and podiatry exercise and education programmes for people with neurological, cardiovascular, respiratory, orthopaedic, rheumatological, or palliative care conditions. Clinicians use the platform to prescribe tailored exercise programmes, monitor patient adherence and progress, and adjust treatment remotely via secure messaging, while patients complete programmes on demand at home.

Product overview

Giraffe Healthcare CIC is a Community Interest Company and spin-out from Glasgow Caledonian University that provides a state-of-the-art online platform for the remote delivery of high quality, personalised healthcare services. The platform integrates four core therapy offerings: Online Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, and Podiatry platforms. All services are delivered through a unified web-based system consisting of exercise and education/advice sections, with an extensive library of exercises and customisable education content. The platform includes an inbuilt secure messaging function enabling remote monitoring and interaction between clinicians and patients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Online Physiotherapy Platform Web-based platform for the remote delivery and monitoring of personalised physiotherapy exercise and education programmes for patients with neurological, cardiovascular, respiratory, orthopaedic, rheumatological, or palliative care conditions.
• Online Podiatry Platform Web-based platform for the remote delivery and monitoring of personalised podiatry exercise and education programmes for patients with foot and toe conditions requiring ongoing care.
• Online Occupational Therapy Platform Web-based platform for the delivery and remote monitoring of personalised occupational therapy programmes for people with clinical conditions.
• Online Speech Therapy Platform Web-based platform for the delivery of speech therapy services as part of the integrated online healthcare platform.

Quantifiable outcome

• Web-based physiotherapy was found to be cheaper than usual care for people moderately affected by Multiple Sclerosis over six months
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Glasgow Caledonian UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGiraffe Healthcare is a spin-out from Glasgow Caledonian University. The platform was developed by experienced healthcare professionals with academic and research backgrounds, suggesting ongoing collaborative relationships with the university for research and development of the evidence-based platform.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Hinge Health: Hinge Health is the largest US digital MSK platform, offering employer- and health-plan-funded remote physiotherapy programmes; it competes for the same end-user demand but operates at vastly greater scale and capitalisation.
• Sword Health: Sword Health is a well-funded digital MSK and pelvic-health platform pairing AI-guided exercise with clinician oversight, broadly overlapping Giraffe's remote rehabilitation category at much larger scale.
• AposHealth: AposHealth delivers technology-enabled MSK care combining a wearable device with remote monitoring and exercise therapy—relevant to Giraffe's remote MSK rehabilitation positioning but with a hardware-centred model.

Others

• TELUS Health: TELUS Health is a large digital health ecosystem including virtual care and chronic disease management; it represents the broader digital-health platform category Giraffe could either partner with or compete against as it scales beyond the UK.

Direct peers

• Physitrack: Physitrack is a direct competitor offering a remote exercise prescription and patient adherence platform for physiotherapists and other allied health professionals, with a comparable clinician-facing workflow and home-exercise library model.
• PhysioTools: PhysioTools provides exercise prescription software and content libraries used by physiotherapists globally, closely mirroring Giraffe's clinician-configured exercise programme delivery and patient-facing instruction model.
• Rehab My Patient: Rehab My Patient is a UK-based exercise prescription platform for clinicians, comparable in offering personalised home exercise programmes with video instructions and remote patient monitoring capabilities.
• PhysiApp: PhysiApp is the patient-facing companion to Physitrack, delivering video-based home exercise programmes with secure messaging—directly comparable to Giraffe's web-based personalised programme delivery and secure clinician-patient messaging.
• Kaia Health: Kaia Health offers a digital MSK and chronic-condition platform combining exercise therapy, education, and AI-driven coaching—overlapping with Giraffe's remote rehabilitation and self-management value proposition.

Emerging players

• Vivify Health: Vivify Health provides remote patient monitoring and care-plan delivery for chronic conditions; its remote monitoring plus patient engagement stack overlaps with Giraffe's in-platform messaging and adherence tracking capabilities.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/giraffe-health

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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