The Amsterdam-based on-line clinic Fellos is scaling quickly: the platform has raised over €2 million in development capital from strategic traders, together with a bunch of healthcare professionals, Dutch Operator Fund, and Capital Mills.
The platform at the moment focuses on three areas the place males typically face obstacles to searching for assist: sexual well being (reminiscent of erectile dysfunction and untimely ejaculation), pores and skin situations (pimples), and hair loss. With the brand new capital, Fellos will additional broaden its healthcare providers, enabling much more males to get assist for a variety of well being points.
“With Fellos, we wish to decrease the obstacles for males to entry healthcare,” say Fellos Founders Sibren Tolsma and Rob Smeitink. “We see that males typically wait too lengthy – and unnecessarily – earlier than addressing their signs. Our digital strategy makes it simpler to take step one towards an answer. This funding permits us to launch new care areas and broaden our mission.”
Fellos’s development capital increase aligns with a broader 2025 surge in European digital well being funding. Bigger platforms reminiscent of Numan (UK) secured €51.6 million to scale its preventative healthcare mannequin and broaden into girls’s well being, whereas ViCentra (Netherlands) raised €72.4 million to spice up manufacturing of its insulin patch pump.
Earlier-stage innovators like XUND (Austria) and Jutro Medical (Poland) have attracted funding for AI-driven patient-care instruments and hybrid clinic fashions. Within the extra specialised male-health section, Comphya (Switzerland) raised €8 million for its implantable neurostimulation system addressing erectile dysfunction.
Inside this context, Fellos’s funding underscores continued investor confidence in accessible, digital-first healthcare – and, as one other Dutch HealthTech alongside ViCentra, highlights the Netherlands’ rising position in Europe’s MedTech and Telehealth panorama.
Harry van den Brink, one of many medical traders, provides: “I help Fellos’ mission and see the demand for on-line healthcare rising quickly. By Fellos, we provide a worthwhile addition to the present healthcare panorama and make care extra accessible. With my medical background, I hope to make a significant contribution.”
Since its launch in 2024, Fellos has skilled notable development, with greater than 10,000 sufferers already receiving remedy. Fellos supplies males with simple, totally digital entry to healthcare. By a web-based (chat) session, males can join with a GP and, if wanted, obtain remedy discreetly delivered to their house through a associate pharmacy.
Jeroen Bertrams and Sjoerd van Berkel of Dutch Operator Fund I add: “The staff is
responding to an enormous market demand and has confirmed their strategy works in a
brief time. The speedy development to 10,000 sufferers confirms that males are on the lookout for this
kind of accessible healthcare.”
Fellos emphasises that the Netherlands remains to be lagging behind international locations just like the UK and Germany on the subject of digital healthcare. With their platform, Fellos goals to shut this hole and make digital care out there in a dependable, safe, and accessible approach.
