Medico - AngelList

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Medico.com aims to be the largest global consumer health site. We have launched editions in Spanish targeting the US Hispanic market and Latin America (www.medico.com), Brazil (www.medico.com.br), and India (www.medico.in).

Medico.com contains a Q&A platform (think Quora for Health) and high quality health information.

We aim to become the most trusted resource for consumers to discover health information, and to become well-informed and active drivers of their own health.

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Elan Dekel

Previously Head of Product for Google in Africa, Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Founded a YouTube predecessor in 1999. Yale BSc. in Comp Sci, MBA from INSEAD.

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Fabrice Grinda

Founder and CEO at OLX, Investor at AppsFire, BrightRoll, BrandsClub..
Howard L Morgan

Investor in Mint, Pandora, IdeaLab!, 33Across, Delicious, VideoEgg, Intelligize. Team member of First Round Capital.
Rick Heitzmann

Venture capitalist - Founder and Managing Director at FirstMark, Entrepreneur, avid Philly sports fan
Jason Harinstein

SVP Corporate Development at Groupon

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Esther Dyson

Prolific Investor. Medstory, Evernote, Flickr, Meetup, EDventure, Release 1.0, del.icio.us
Julian Fisher

Chief Medical Officer of Medico.com. Neurologist at Beth Israel Deaconess, and Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School.

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Mara Betsch

Content Editor for Medico.com - previously Editor at Prevention.com and Health.com
Laz Cabanas

Head of Sales - Previously SVP at WebMD, Laz was part of the executive management team that led eMedicine from startup to successful acquisition by WebMD.
Nir Yariv

Director of Engineering - Worked on mobile health apps for Africa and Bangladesh in partnership with Intel and Grameen. Also worked at Zend, and R-U-Sure.

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Bedy Yang

Venture Partner 500Startups (focused Latam + international); Founder Brazil Innovators - epicenter of startups in Brazil. Connector, community builder

“We're thrilled to welcome 500Startups to the Medico.com team!”

22 days ago

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Howard L Morgan The world and non English speakers need great access to health care info, and the advertisers are eager to reach them.

3 months ago

Esther Dyson Everyone should have access to health info in a language and context that they can understand.

3 months ago

Rick Heitzmann Elan has great experience in international content and advertising market. The opportunity for Medico is huge both domestically in the non-English market and the fast growing BRICs

3 months ago

Jason Harinstein I am a fan of the market and Elan

3 months ago

Julian Fisher As Chief Medical Officer, I bring over 30 years of clinical experience including international medical and public health awareness to the company. In addition, I have over 25 years experience in medical information technology and have started 3 information technology companies in the healthcare and education spaces.

3 months ago

Bedy Yang Elan is a very impressive entrepreneur with relevant product and international experience. Targeting Spanish speakers (+400 million people), Brazil and India market makes this a HUGE opportunity.

22 days ago