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CONNECT Care

Digital medicines specialists

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1-20 employees
  • Healthcare
  • Big data
  • Age-tech
Hammersmith, London, UK

Company mission

To give people the confidence to make the most of medicines by making medicines easier for patients & the people who care for them.

Led by a woman
Top investors

45% female employees

Our take

Healthcare tech infrastructure is rapidly growing, but not at an even pace. With digitisation accelerating, many health providers are shying away from solving more complicated cases in which patients with complex care needs are being left behind. With up to 50% of patients struggling to take their medication, they are being under-supported and the problem is often forgotten about until it's too late.

The digital healthcare future isn't inclusive - CONNECT Care wants to tackle that. By using digital tools and insights, it offers to help patients have the confidence they need to take their medication comfortably. It does this in a range of ways, from empowering patients to manage, understand and take their medicines, to providing aid to the people who care for them to make more informed decisions for proactive support.

Funded by Innovate UK, the UK's official innovation agency, CONNECT Care has used capital gained to help produce a dashboard that allows patients, their carers, and clinicians to stay connected, and offers more independence for patients. With more plans to further expand existing technology across health and social care over the coming year, the future looks promising for CONNECT Care.

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Benefits

  • 24 days leave, plus bank holidays & your birthday
  • Flexible working
  • Employee options pool
  • Remote working, with offices in London and Lancashire if you need one!
  • Regular team socials
  • Mental heath support
  • Always looking to add more benefits

Company values

  • 🤝 Collaboration – we forge partnerships not monopolies
  • 🤝 Collaboration – we’re not all extraverts who rise & grind
  • 🤝 Collaboration – we is bigger than me
  • 💛 Trust – we say nay to red tape
  • 💛 Trust – we work remotely and roam freely
  • 💛 Trust – we value transparency
  • 🦶 Human – we hire for potential over past experience
  • 🦶 Human – don’t build things for the average user
  • 🦶 Human – we’re lifelong learners

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Jan 2023

$0.7m

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May 2022

$0.8m

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Total funding: $2.5m

This company has top investors

Leadership

Issa Dasu Patel

(CEO & Co-Founder)

Graduating from Oxford and Harvard University, Issa was previously a digital & data advisor to NHS Digital, seeing the first remote monitoring and virtual ward programmes from POC to national rollout.

Mehfuz Dasu Patel

(Product Lead & Co-Founder)

A med-school dropout, Mehfuz has spent past decade designing new models of care from a pharmacy lens – everything from specialist pharmacy services for people in care to online pharmacy on Amazon.

Rachel Wickenden

(Service Lead & Founding Team Member)

Rachel is an outcome-focused empath interested in making a lasting difference to people's lives. Began as a care home assistant, before joining the world of tech-enabled care.

People progressing

Magda joined CONNECT Care as a Service Designer, quickly growing into one of our leads – as the Service Design Lead, Magda looks at how all the pieces of our complex puzzle fit together.

Anton started his rather unconventional journey as a bartender (among many other things). One of our first team members, Anton has quickly grown into a confident and accomplished mid-level engineer.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at CONNECT Care

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Rachel Wickenden (Service Lead & Founding Team Member)

  • We're a team of 12 innovators and change-makers, hailing from over 8 countries and speaking between us over 15 languages!
  • We hire for potential over past experience. It's because – as a team – we know how it feels to go down the path less trodden (3/4 of our leadership team are university drop-outs all for very different reasons). We bring on people that we believe in and who believe in our mission and purpose. Tell us about your lived-experience and philosophy of work, not the big brands on your CV.

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