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.
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.
4 min read
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