Index ventures into Latin America to back Sofia, a Mexico City-based telemedicine and health insurer
Arturo Sanchez and his co-founders have spent the past two years developing the telemedicine and insurance platform, Sofia, as a way to give customers across Mexico better access to quality healthcare through their insurance plan.
Along with his co-founders, Sebastian Jimenez, a former Google employee who serves as the company’s chief product officer, and Manuel Andere an ex-Patreon employee who’s now Sofia’s chief technology officer, Sanchez (a former Index Ventures employee) is on a path to provide low-cost insurance for middle class consumers across Latin America, starting in Mexico City.That service was a placeholder for what Sanchez said was the broader company vision.The company already has a core group of 100 physicians in Mexico City and initially will be serving the city with 70 different specialist areas.