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300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
15 March 2022
Employment effect (start)
15 March 2022
Foreseen end date
31 December 2022
Description
Doctolib Germany is an E-health company, subsidiary of the French technology company, announced to create over 300 new jobs until the end of December 2022 in major German cities such as Duesseldorf, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Berlin.
Through a second round of financing, Doctolib received €500 million and announced to use that money to create over 1000 Jobs in Germany within the next 4 years, out of those 300 new employees by the end 2022 in the fields of service to customers and personal customer contact and for the product and tech teams.
Doctolib was founded in 2013 and has been active in Germany since 2017. The company already employs 600 people at 11 locations in Germany and is valued at 5.8 billion euros.
Eurofound (2022), Doctolib, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 106623, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106623.
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