Irish healthcare provider Vida Care has closed a €1m funding round, as it aims to open ten health screening and testing clinics around the country.
Vida Care's service provides patients with immediate access to preventative health screening, enabling them to book routine tests for bloods, cholesterol, cortisol, diabetes, thyroid, hormones, colon cancer and STIs on demand and to receive their test results within 48 hours.
Vida Care opened its third clinic in Pembroke Street in Dublin this week, following on from clinic openings in Blackrock and Consilla.
The new clinic is its first in Dublin city centre and will be followed by new clinic openings in Cork, Galway, Sligo and Athlone in the coming months.
Vida Care also said it is looking at expanding into Portugal and Marbella which have become the epicentre of the preventative healthcare, longevity and wellness business in Europe.
It said this element of its overall expansion strategy will provide new and existing clients who live aboard for part of the year with a familiar, local service.
"The preventative healthcare and longevity business is exploding in Ireland and is being driven by consumers who want to take back control of their health. Vida Care is leading the way in meeting that demand and we are pursuing an ambitious strategy to expand and scale up our company at home and abroad," Conor Kelly, CEO of Vida Care, said.
"Our growth to date has been financed by shareholders, private investors and investment through the EIIS scheme," he said.
"This investment has also allowed us to develop innovative software that is powered by AI technology to revolutionise how our health data and test results are analysed and to provide detailed recommendations that significantly improve patient outcomes," he added.
