The company made earnings of \u00a3470,258 last year before interest, tax and non-cash items, from revenues of \u00a312.1 million, which have increased 110 per cent a year over the past three years. This gets it a place on the 2026 Sunday Times 100 Tech<\/a> ranking of the country\u2019s fastest-growing tech firms. The business has also created 164 jobs. <\/p>\n After arriving in the UK the family was placed in asylum-seeker housing in London, Wenbar says, adding that her parents \u201cdid a really good job\u201d of shielding their children \u201cfrom the realities of what was actually going on\u201d.<\/p>\n At one point her father had a job as a night receptionist at a hotel, which gave the family free accommodation together in one room. They moved to a house on the condition that her mother would care for the elderly people on that block. Eventually the family settled in Slough and her father spent time working internationally, sending money back to his family. <\/p>\n To make ends meet, Wenbar recalls doing a lot of \u201cridiculous activities\u201d. A gift card company paid \u00a35 for placing 1,000 cards and envelopes into plastic sleeves, so her parents made a \u201cfun activity\u201d of doing this as a family. <\/p>\n \u201cIt was wonderfully tumultuous,\u201d Wenbar says. \u201cIt instilled this idea of \u2018don\u2019t complain, just get it done\u2019, and that definitely became useful during the early years of bootstrapping the business.\u201d<\/p>\n Wenbar loved school. She took six A-levels and enjoyed the \u201cexternal validation of a gold star\u201d. After teaching herself to code as a child, she had aspirations of becoming a software engineer. However, when she built up the courage to broach the topic with her parents, they were keen for her to continue the family\u2019s medical lineage, going back to Wenbar\u2019s grandmother. \u201cThey would have disowned me if I hadn\u2019t studied medicine!\u201d she jokes. <\/p>\n A medical course at the University of East Anglia drew Wenbar because it \u201cdidn\u2019t feel competitive\u201d and was more practical than other studies, she says. From the early days she worked with actors simulating patients \u2014 an experience that helped her later when running her company. <\/p>\n \u201cI remember giving someone news that they had breast cancer and I had to step away from the actor session and just bawl my eyes out,\u201d Wenbar says. \u201cIt made me much better in the long run at speaking to patients, but also at running a company, because you can deliver really bad news in a way that you hold your emotions to yourself.\u201d <\/p>\n During her first year at university she met Oskar Wenbar, 38, who was studying pharmacy. He would go on to co-found the company with her in 2018, and the two married in 2019. <\/p>\n With a love for a \u201cchaotic environment\u201d, Wenbar thought about becoming an military medic but decided to specialise in A&E medicine instead. Her first shift as a qualified doctor was overnight at the James Paget University Hospital in Norfolk, where she was immediately thrust into action when a patient suffered a heart attack in the lift. <\/p>\n \u201cNone of the textbooks prepared me for this. It\u2019s baptism by fire. You\u2019re there with your registrar [and] a whole bunch of nurses who thankfully have been there before. You\u2019re learning rapidly on the spot.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite enjoying the high-pressure environment, she quickly became frustrated with how A&E was clogged up by non-emergencies. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s stuff that is important and urgent to the individual, like a urinary tract infection \u2014 that burns and stings; it\u2019s debilitating \u2014 but it\u2019s not actually an emergency. But the person cannot get a same-day GP appointment.\u201d <\/p>\n Ask me anythingAdvice to other entrepreneurs: Be comfortable asking lots of questions.Best business tip I\u2019ve received: We don\u2019t work in isolation. Understand the value of networking and see the landscape as a lot of collaborators. Someone I admire: My mother. Genuinely, I think she is such a force of nature.Motto I live by: I have two hands. He has two hands. I have two eyes. He has two eyes. Anything he can do, I can do.Best way to start the day: Two hours of reading. I absolutely love that. I use a news aggregator that covers topics from tech to regulation, world news etc. If you could tell everyone one thing: Understand why you\u2019re doing it, because it\u2019s going to get really hard sometimes and it\u2019s going to suck. If you don\u2019t have a real reason why you\u2019re putting yourself through this mess, you will tap out.<\/p>\n She started working on algorithms that could be used to assess each patient\u2019s needs before they attended A&E, enabling drugs to be prescribed in advance where required. After pitching the idea to the NHS she was \u201claughed out of the room\u201d, but Oskar believed in the idea. He quit his job as a manager of a local pharmacy and took out a six-year lease on a 2,000sq ft warehouse.<\/p>\n Initially the company was funded by them working locum shifts. Costs were kept low through DIY set-ups in the warehouse, with shelves bought second-hand. Wenbar used her medical licence to practise and Oskar his licence to dispense drugs to patients with existing conditions.<\/p>\n The website started with 18 medicines focused on the common needs Wenbar had seen in A&E, such as the morning-after pill, migraine medication and treatments for urinary tract infections. The company now provides treatment for more than 80 conditions and received Care Quality Commission registration in 2024, allowing it to request blood tests, interpret results and make diagnoses.<\/p>\n In the early days the website was held together with \u201cduct tape\u201d, Wenbar says. She spent late nights on Facebook coding forums, analysing problems she couldn\u2019t solve. She hired her first engineer from a forum after he helped her for more than two hours. <\/p>\n Today the company has a team of 30 engineers and has expanded its AI capabilities \u2014 patients can even cough into their microphones for it to assess lung volume.<\/p>\n Wenbar still finds time to take on some A&E shifts every few months<\/p>\n JASON BYE FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES<\/p>\n December 2019 was a turning point for the company, when Wenbar worked 18 nightshifts in 25 days to make payroll and keep it going. That unsustainable pace made her push harder for the company to become profitable. She said this was a process of \u201cslimming things down\u201d, letting team members go, increasing their financial literacy and narrowing the focus to specific treatments. <\/p>\n![\",](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\/ccc6bf6a-ad93-48ae-a9cc-ad4834d4daa0.jpg\")
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