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PetDesk

Petcare communications

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21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Internal tools
  • Communication
  • Customer service
  • Pets
  • SaaS
Bankers Hill, San Diego, CA

Company mission

PetDesk's mission is to build technology that helps people better connect with pet parents.

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-11% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

PetDesk is a veterinary communication platform helping pet healthcare providers stay in contact with pet owners, and book and manage appointments. It’s a simple concept, but one that in practice is highly effective at improving care outcomes, reducing costly no-shows, and streamlining office work.

Whilst PetDesk flirted with the idea of expanding over into other petcare sectors like grooming, nothing appears to have come of it; but perhaps this is testament to the strength of their existing product. They have become a leader in the market, working with over 3,000 practices and attracting 3 million users to its app.

The market PetDesk is operating within is rapidly becoming saturated with complex software, as the pet care market itself has also been swelling over recent years with the substantial increase in US pet ownership. It’s now common to see the appointments management aspect absorbed into broader veterinary practice management software, like VETport, eVetPractice, and Hippo Manager. PetDesk has started expanding its offerings, including launching a veterinary business learning portal, starting a veterinary life-focused podcast with Evergreen Podcasts, and branching out into consultancy. Hopefully, these expansions will help it compete in the marketplace and continue to attract administratively overburdened practices.

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Freddie

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Benefits

  • Medical coverage for employees and dependents
  • Health & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
  • Dental & Vision coverage available
  • Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
  • Short and Long Term Disability
  • 15 Paid Annual Holidays
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Pawternity Leave, Pet Adoption Support & Subsidized Pet Insurance
  • $250 Annual PetDesk Scholarship Stipend for L&D
  • Veterinary Medicine Diversity & Inclusion Certificate Program

Company values

  • Empower & Respect Vulnerability
  • Do More, Leave Fulfilled
  • Unleash Curiosity
  • Deliver Unexpected Joy

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Jan 2019

$12m

LATE VC

Jun 2017

$2.1m

SERIES A

Total funding: $16.5m

Leadership

Held various managerial roles at Zyvex Instruments, before working as a general manager at DCG Systems.

Aaron Bannister

(Chief Customer Success Engineer)

Previously a senior application developer at Ascendix Technologies, before co-founding Locai, PetDesk's first iteration, and then returning to Ascendix as a solution architect.

Worked as a microautomation engineer at Zyvec Corporation, before moving on to work as a product development manager in the nanoinstruments division of DCG Systems.