Is There a Doctor On the Road? Travel Medicine Startup Raises $1.5 Million: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: A startup called Runway says it can keep travelers safe and healthy on the road. Ado / Adobe
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Everyone has gotten sick on the road sometime. A startup says it can make telehealth the answer.
Travel Startup Funding This Week
Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding. Please email Travel Tech Reporter Justin Dawes at [email protected] if you have funding news.Everyone has gotten sick on the road. Business travelers and vacationers both know the hassle of trying to find a doctor in a strange city, and many of us know about ending up in strange little doctor's offices that have risque pictures of celebrity patients on the wall (yes, this really happened) because our hotels had deals with said physicians, and about missing the chance to drive a venture capitalist's Tesla Roadster back when they were exotic (that, too) because that same fever forced us to cancel.
Now, a Miami-based startup called Runway says it can make it all better
The brainchild of 36-year old former pharmaceutical executive Josh Rome, Runway is setting out to be the Roman or Hims of travel medicine, doing for travel diarrhea, motion sickness and malaria what the earlier startups have done in erectile dysfunction and hair restoration. The idea: Let travelers arrange for online consultation about common problems before you go, and get pre-travel delive
