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Roon raises $15M to replace ‘Dr. Google’ with real doctors sharing videos about illness treatments
Vikram Bhaskaran was leading creator partnerships at Pinterest when his father started showing early symptoms of ALS, a rare, terminal neurodegenerative
Vikram Bhaskaran was leading creator partnerships at Pinterest when his father started showing early symptoms of ALS, a rare, terminal neurodegenerative disease. So, during the pandemic, Bhaskaran linked up with his two friends, Rohan Ramakrishna, a neurosurgeon at Weil Cornell Medicine, and Pinterest engineer Arun Ranganathan, to build Roon, an online resource that provides clinically accurate complex medical information created by doctors and people living with a specific disease. Anyone looking for answers about a condition can access Roon and watch over 16,000 short videos about ALS, glioblastoma, dementia, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), and Fertility & Family Building.
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