Home featured HealthEngine co-founders Marcus Tan and Adam Yap Featured Funding | Investment Noticeboard Featured “They get what success takes”: HealthEngine’s CEO on the Aussie start-up’s major new investor James Harkness April 6, 2017 Online healthcare marketplace HealthEngine has now raised close to $50m after closing a $26.7m Series C funding round. Sequoia India, which has worked closely with Apple’s Steve Jobs, Google’s Larry Page and LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner and other high-profile founders, led the round. The VC firm, which counts HealthEngine as its first direct investment in an Australian tech start-up, joins cornerstone investors Telstra Ventures and Seven West Media on the company’s board HealthEngine also attracted new investors including private equity fund Alium Capital plus follow-on investments from Go Capital, Carsales.com.au founder Greg Roebuck, and the founders of ecommerce company Lux Group. HealthEngine CEO, co-founder and medical director Dr Marcus Tan spoke to Dynamic Business about what the Perth-based company has achieved since its 2006 launch, what it looks for in an investor, and how it will be using the funding from its Series C round. How would you quantify HealthEngine’s success? Tan: We are multi-award winning business, considered to be one of the largest consumer healthcare sites in Australia helping over 1 million Australians get better access and a better experience of healthcare. We have facilitated over 8 million bookings since 2012 and had over 500k mobile app downloads. We started with 2 developers in 2010 and now have over 100 staff and have seen triple digit