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Jane App<\/a> has scooped up the Vancouver startup Ginger Desk, adding more clinic administration capabilities in its first public acquisition.\u00a0<\/p>\n The news: In a LinkedIn post<\/a> on Tuesday, Ginger Desk founder and CEO, naturopathic doctor Julie Durnan, revealed that her startup was acquired by Vancouver-based healthtech software unicorn Jane Software (known as Jane App) three months ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n While Jane offers a software platform to run health clinics totally online, Ginger Desk aims to make health clinic administration more effective by offering trained virtual assistants (real people, not bots) who manage a clinic\u2019s workflow of patients and bookings. BetaKit has reached out to Jane App for more details on the acquisition.\u00a0<\/p>\n From the source: \u201cJane welcomed all 53 members of the Ginger Desk team, and watching them not only find a home here, but truly thrive has been one of the greatest joys of my career,\u201d Durnan, who is now Jane\u2019s head of services, wrote on LinkedIn.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Following the thread: This appears to be Jane\u2019s first public acquisition of another company, and comes a year after the clinic software provider was set to hit a $1.8-billion CAD valuation<\/a>, making it a Canadian tech unicorn. According to an April blog post<\/a>, more than 240,000 practitioners across 40 disciplines use Jane to run their private practices.<\/p>\n As the company has grown over the past few years, Canada\u2019s private healthcare sector has expanded, with total private-sector health expenditures on track to increase<\/a> by 5.2 percent in 2025. In Ontario, for example, the government has awarded new funds<\/a> to expand private, for-profit health clinics.\u00a0<\/p>\n Final thought: Durnan\u2019s founding story at Ginger Desk mirrors that of Jane App\u2019s. Co-founders Alison Taylor and Trevor Johnston launched as a \u201cside hustle<\/a>\u201d in 2014 to help manage Taylor\u2019s clinic of physiotherapists, chiropractors, and other practitioners. Meanwhile, Durnan, a registered naturopathic doctor, launched<\/a> Ginger Desk out of her own clinic to help manage administrative work. Both companies also raised very little capital before becoming profitable.\u00a0<\/p>\n Feature image courtesy Ginger Desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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