Founders: Louis Sisk, Jordi Hermoso, Archer Hume
Medlo, a Melbourne-based workforce platform for Australian doctors, and its sister product, the telehealth platform Doccy, have raised funding from Startmate on an uncapped SAFE note. The funding amount is undisclosed.
The uncapped structure hands the pricing decision to a future priced round — a term that typically signals investor conviction and founder leverage rather than a settled valuation, and is a rather rare, but not unheard-of, move.
An ageing population and a shrinking GP workforce have pushed access to the edge. Patients wait days for simple issues, and many no longer have a regular GP, while the clinicians meant to see them lose their days to admin. Credentialing a doctor into a new hospital can take weeks; telehealth, meanwhile, has drifted toward transactional, one-off consults that generate churn rather than continuity of care.
Medlo is a product focused on the doctor supply side of that system, ensuring clinicians turn up where they are needed. It handles the full end-to-end lifecycle of locum work, including doctor credentialing, rostering and shifts, and an intelligent search and alerts layer that matches doctors to open hospital shifts across every Australian state. The final layer is payroll and compliance: timesheet-to-payment is handled in-house, with same-day pay supported and document storage secured behind two-factor authentication.
On top of that workforce layer is Doccy, Medlo's consumer-facing telehealth service and sister product. Doccy employs an AI-driven hybrid care approach: an AI voice agent handles a structured pre-consultation to gather patient history, followed by an AHPRA-registered doctor who reviews, verifies, and issues the final decision. This process results in a medical certificate, referral, or prescription, with a GP summary automatically completing the cycle. Prices for certificates start at $12.90. Usually, patients spend about eight minutes speaking, while doctors spend roughly ninety seconds.
Since launching in late 2024, Medlo has grown into one of the largest doctor networks in the country, reporting more than 130 hospital partnerships and hundreds of doctors onboarded. Doccy, built in a matter of weeks, now cites more than 500 verified doctors and over 100,000 patients treated, and has earned a 4.58 out of 5 rating from its first cohort of patient reviews.