KeyOps, a Toronto, Canada-based Insights-as-a-Service (IaaS) startup, raised $4M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Graphite Ventures, with participation from MaRS IAF, StarForge, Archangel Network fund, Velocity Fund, Carol Leaman, James Novak, Danny Ardellini and a network of physicians from HaloHealth also participated in this round.
The company intends to use the funds to grow the team to add engineering, product development and sales/marketing roles in the next year with a focus on its U.S. commercial team build out, while growing its physician network across North America.
Conceived by Drs. Sam Elfassy and Saeed Darvish-Kazem, KeyOps is an Insights-as-a-Service (IaaS) startup whose digital platform connects doctors and other key opinion leaders (KOL) to life science companies to enable faster commercial decision making and better respond to patients’ needs. The company has experienced rapid growth since its launch in 2020 as their platform allows global pharmaceutical sales and marketing teams to intelligently match and deploy short digital surveys, asynchronous advisory board meetings, and test marketing content with a network of expert physicians. Since rolling out its platform in 2021, the startup now boasts a notable list of customers that include some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical and medical device companies, including Amgen Inc., GlaxoSmithKline plc, Sanofi Canada, and Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD).
KeyOps currently works with device manufacturers, laboratory testing companies, and pharmaceutical customers across a range of therapeutic areas.
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13/12/2022