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AntlerPlug and Play VenturesAmsterdam, NL · 4 known investors
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Pal, headquartered in Amsterdam, provides home-based care services for patients with serious illnesses. The company coordinates the support these patients and their families need so treatment and daily care can take place outside a hospital setting.
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Pal develops a digital care solution for people with serious, life-limiting illnesses and the families who care for them. Its mobile app combines a shared care planner that lets a patient's family and chosen caregivers organise tasks and collaborate, at-home symptom monitoring to help caregivers observe, recognise and manage symptoms, and a library of practical resources covering caregiving, receiving care, health and wellbeing, planning and palliative care.
The platform is aimed at the everyday challenges of palliative caregiving — daily care provision, symptom management and care team collaboration — and is positioned to help patients, family members and healthcare providers coordinate care at home rather than in hospital. The company also invites healthcare providers, service providers and other organisations supporting caregivers and care recipients to partner with it, and offers professional testing access to healthcare practitioners.
Founding story
Co-founder Nara Moripen lost her mother in November 2020, roughly a year after a terminal small-cell lung cancer diagnosis. The experience of becoming a caregiver without adequate support, tools or guidance led her and co-founder Azi Doost to build Pal as the resource she says she wished she had had at the time.
Business model
Pal offers a consumer-facing mobile application for patients and family caregivers, alongside a partnership track for healthcare providers and service providers supporting caregivers and care recipients.
Traction
The company says its direction and product were shaped by input from care recipients and current and former caregivers, and it publishes user testimonials from family caregivers and people living with chronic or serious illness describing use of the app for appointments, symptom logging and shared task tracking.
Latest developments
In September 2023 Pal announced €300,000 in pre-seed funding from Plug and Play Ventures, angel investors and a Rabobank Innovation Loan, intended to fund its product launch and expand access to at-home palliative care.
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Market position
Pal positions itself in digital palliative and serious-illness care. Coverage of the company cites an estimate that close to 60 million people a year rely on palliative care while only about 14% of those who need it have access, and the company states that more than 137 million families are affected by a costly, inequitable and inefficient care space.
According to a National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization executive quoted by the company, most existing tools in the space are either aimed at clinicians or only partially serve patients and families, whereas Pal is oriented toward enabling caregivers and patients to communicate with physicians and support proactive care.
Technology
A mobile application providing a shared care planner for coordinating care among multiple caregivers, at-home symptom tracking and monitoring, and a curated library of caregiving and palliative care resources.
Go-to-market
The company distributes its app directly to patients and family caregivers, publishes an educational content library and caregiver stories to reach its audience, and pursues partnerships with healthcare and service providers. It has also used startup events such as TNW Amsterdam for visibility.
People living with a serious or life-limiting illness, their family and chosen caregivers, and healthcare professionals and provider organisations involved in palliative and at-home care.
Geography
Pal works across the UK and the Netherlands, with listed offices in Amsterdam (EDGE Olympic, Fred. Roeskestraat 115), Vinkeveen in Utrecht province, and London (Silverstream House, Fitzrovia). The Amsterdam and London addresses are listed under the name Amie Technologies.
History
Pal was founded in 2022 in Amsterdam by tech operator Azi Doost and digital health strategist and former caregiver Nara Moripen. It was supported by the accelerator Antler before closing a €300,000 pre-seed round announced in September 2023, which was earmarked for the launch of its digital palliative care product.
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Timeline · 4
launches, deals, and filingsPal closed €300,000 in pre-seed funding from Plug and Play Ventures, several angel investors, and Rabobank via the Rabobank Innovation Loan, to accelerate the launch of its digital palliative care solution.
Pal announced it would be present at the TNW Amsterdam conference on June 15-16.
Prior to its pre-seed round, Pal was supported by the global startup accelerator Antler.
Pal was founded in 2022 by tech operator Azi Doost and digital health strategist and former caregiver Nara Moripen in Amsterdam.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Pal do?
- Pal is an Amsterdam-based digital care companion helping families plan and manage at-home care for serious, life-limiting illness.
- Who are Pal's investors?
- Pal's investors include Antler, Plug and Play Ventures.
- Where is Pal headquartered?
- Pal is headquartered in Amsterdam, NL.