Senior Frontend Engineer, Sesame

Sesame’s marketplace has been getting plenty of praise as well as capital investment, and it’s easy to see why. The American healthcare landscape has long been a bone of contention, so allowing consumers the opportunity to shop around is a good idea. The fact that Sesame users don’t have to be paying subscribers to the platform, but can get benefits by being one, is also a great touch.

It’ll be interesting to see how things work out in the long run for the company. While there’s little doubt that Sesame works for the patient, this kind of marketplace always seems to become somewhat unpopular with the businesses it hosts – Booking.com and Uber Eats are examples of this.

For the time being though, it’s proving popular with both sets of end users and working for a good cause. Having received funding from GV (formerly Google Venture), it looks set to grow quite a bit over the next few years.