Here are six key notes:
1. The company received $50 million in financing, which it will put toward its messaging app and its platform-as-a-service, “TigerConnect.”
2. TigerText offers tools that allow organizations to connect on any platform or device.
3. Norwest Venture Partners led TigerText’s equity funding round. Invus Group, Accolade Partners, Shasta Ventures, OrbiMed and Reed Elsevier also participated.
4. TigerText also introduced its TigerText Anywhere initiative, which brings its secure messaging to desktops and wearables.
5. The company’s tools are compatible with Apple Watches, desktops, iOS, Android and the web. Customers can connect their EHRs, critical alerts and shift data, among other information via the secure, real-time messaging capabilities.
6. TigerText has more than 250,000 paying users.
“TigerText addresses a critical problem in the healthcare delivery landscape through their communications platform and API platform,” said Robert Mittendorff, MD, principal at Northwest Venture Partners. “Coordinating providers around patients and sequencing the multitude of process steps required to deliver efficient and quality care requires a solution like this.”
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