• Barkibu

  Led · Equity · Jan 2017

  Barkibu is a Cambre, Spain-based pet health insurance startup that combines pet insurance, telehealth, and AI to deliver personalized veterinary care. Led by Álvaro Gutierrez and Pablo Pazos Rey, the company's app lets clients request vets via chat, phone, or email and includes an AI-powered veterinary solution. The startup raised €4.5m in a funding round led by Kfund with participation from Mundi Ventures. Barkibu intends to use the funds to expand operations and to accelerate development to broaden its offerings. Core product capabilities center on integrating insurance with telehealth consultations and AI-driven vet support. Barkibu, based in A Coruña, provides an AI-driven veterinary assistant that operates 24/7 and offers remote access to licensed veterinarians alongside insurance and prevention plans. Its platform leverages machine learning trained on a library of more than 800,000 answered consultations to analyze symptoms and deliver personalized treatment advice. The product includes AIVet functionality available globally and aggregates pet health data from user queries and insurer claims. Founders include Pablo Pazos, Patricia Seoane, Enrique Torres, Álvaro Gutiérrez and María González. The company positions its AI to reduce insurers' operating costs and generate proprietary claims data to optimize pricing and marketing. Barkibu intends to use new funding to expand the symptoms its AIVet can interpret and to grow its pet-insurance customer base beyond Spain into other European markets. Barkibu is a mobile app that enables pet owners to consult online with professional veterinarians. Its business model monetizes users through brands and veterinary professionals. The company has established itself as the largest player in the veterinary veterinary sector with presence in 20 countries, over 13,000 veterinary professionals, and more than 300,000 users worldwide. Barkibu maintains offices in A Coruña and Valencia and participated in the second edition of the Lanzadera accelerator. The company aims to become the reference veterinary clinic for its users. Since launching in 2014 it has accumulated more than €1 million in investment. Barkibu offers a mobile app for veterinary consultations, allowing pet owners to obtain online advice from professional veterinarians. Its business model monetizes users through partnerships with brands and veterinary professionals. The company closed a third funding round of €360,000 to support its operations. Barkibu is based in A Coruña (Galicia) and reports presence in 18 countries across Spain and LATAM. The startup participated in the second edition of the Lanzadera accelerator and operates in the Internet/software sector. Barkibu is a mobile app that lets pet owners consult with professional veterinarians online. Founded in 2014 and led by Pablo Pazos, the company monetizes users through partnerships with brands and veterinary professionals. It participated in the second edition of the Lanzadera accelerator. Barkibu reports more than 5,000 monthly consultations and over 1,600 registered veterinarians, with monthly growth above 50%. The startup has presence in La Coruña and Valencia in Spain and had expanded into Mexico and Colombia. It employs 14 people and closed a €310,000 financing round in 2015.

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