Interview

October 21, 2019

Healthtech startups look beyond Europe to expand

The European healthcare system has legacy issues and lacks a problem-solving attitude, pushing startups like Kind to go elsewhere to scale.


Mimi Billing

4 min read

Charlotta Tönsgård, founder of a healthtech startup in Sweden, is looking beyond Europe when scaling her company.

Charlotta Tönsgård, founder of Swedish healthtech startup Kind, says she needs to grow her tech business outside of the local market. The product, which is like Slack but for specialist healthcare providers, requires scale for the economics to work.

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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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