Cera, our portfolio company and investment since 2018, is one the world leading digital-fist healthcare company using smart technology to track and monitor the health of its users, enabling families, carers and medical professionals to be informed instantly about changes in health and well-being status via their app. As the most innovative whole-solution digital platform, Cera with its 10,000 staff can attend 40,000+ healthcare visits a day, providing nurse and carer visits to patient homes, medication delivery services, and telehealth phone consultations. As of October 2021, Cera reached a major milestone to have delivered 10 million visits since the start of the pandemic. Cera’s digital platform arranges homecare visits within 24 hours, taking into account customer preferences and references. Its state-of-the-art technology can predict and therefore prevent health deteriorations before they occur, responding to more than 5,000 ‘high risk’ alerts a day for conditions like dementia and diabetes, and meanwhile, the highly motivated Cera carers respond 30x faster to health deteriorations than traditional care companies.
As a more impressive statement by Startups., ‘’This industry disruptive, life changing technology has been so important during the pandemic, and there’s no doubt Cera has saved lives – delivering in-home healthcare services to the equivalent of 40 NHS hospitals or 1,000 care homes every day. The platform has also helped reduce hospitalizations by up to 51%, playing a key role in preventing the NHS from being overwhelmed during the pandemic. Cera will only continue to grow, and after securing 140+ NHS and government contracts and creating 10,000 jobs in the past year, this brilliant startup is on its way to becoming one of the largest healthtech companies in Europe.’’
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