ZocDoc takes $940K for online doctor appointment booking

July 23, 2009 | Camille Ricketts | Comments | |

ZocDoc, a web site that allows regular people to book doctor appointments, view patient reviews and find physicians online for free, has raised $940,000 of a targeted $1.6 million round of equity, reports VentureWire. The New York company’s backers include Khosla Ventures, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ firm Bezos Expeditions, and Salesforce founder Marc Benioff.

ZocDoc has raised $3 million to date.

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  • Keep up the great work ZocDoc!
  • Tom
    Excellent news but a bit late. as only NYC is covered I discovered another service called appointmentseasy.com and it's great and free.
  • webbasedschedulingsoftware
    A number of valuable web based software solutions are available online; which can improve the operation of a busy office or practice.

    To combat the loss in revenues, resulting from missed meetings and appointments (to both clients and practioners), some professionals have utilized a web based room scheduling software or appointment scheduling software; to monitor client meetings and appointments.

    Email reminders will reduce no-shows and self-scheduling clients can book their own meetings or appointments online.

    In addition, it frees up time for Professionals to concentrate on other areas of their workload; online or in the office.

    Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insight.

    Best wishes.
  • Tom
    I agree it saves me a lot of time. In addition to email reminders the service I use can send SMS message. I have almost removed no-shows with this combination of reminders.
  • physicians
    My only questions is that how will make money in the long run when similar outfits with no venture capital such as http://www.mydochub.com has close to the amount of visitors ZocDoc has. The health care field is filled with dead companies in the health 2.0 space. I don't think they will survive for long before the $3 million runs out.