French startup Ambler has completed a €6 million financing round from Bpifrance (via the Digital Venture division), Idinvest Partners, Partech and Kima Ventures. It’ll use the funds to accelerate the development of its platform for connecting healthcare transporters and institutions.
Currently, non-emergency medical transport (for example for patients with kidney failure, oncology needs, rehabilitation or residency in psychiatric hospitals), is highly fragmented. Hospitals have to manually manage each trip, which could be carried out by different providers each time. Typically, managing non-emergency patient transport is a burden on both healthcare staff (booking journeys, managing incidents, etc.), as well as on buyers and the financial teams of the institutions (calls for tenders, cost control, invoicing, recovery of budget allocations, etc.).
Ambler, founded in 2018, offers a single platform to manage all inter-hospital patient transfers, making use of hospital vehicles to save bu..