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December 20, 2021

Dermatology startup Formel Skin raises €30m in Germany’s largest healthtech Series A

The startup will use the funding to build a digital ‘dermatological hospital’ for chronic skin conditions


German dermatology telehealth startup Formel Skin has just raised €30m in Series A funding, as pandemic-fuelled interest in telemedicine continues and Germany flexes its muscles as a healthtech powerhouse. It’s the largest series A round for a German healthtech to date, according to Crunchbase.

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Formel Skin's telehealth app offers specialist dermatologists
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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the DACH region and the future of work, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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