Baltimore, M.D.-based Everseat, a startup that has developed a mobile app for users to book last-minute appointments, is expanding quickly and expects a large base of D.C. users by year’s end.
Less than a year ago, the company stood at only four employees. Everseat now employees 17 full-time employees and will be hiring an additional 15 in 2015, with a focus on recruiting developers. On the upper-level management side, the startup is actively pursuing potential VP of sales candidates.
The mobile application, available on iOS and Android, is a free download, though there are plans to debut a desktop version by the end of summer, according to Eric Michaelis, who heads up sales at Everseat. With roughly 1,000 service providers signed on to its software-as-a-service platform, Everseat’s main focus is to now expand that customer base outside of Baltimore— and D.C. looks to be an area of immediate impact. Michaelis said that he hopes to have another 1000, D.C.-based, clients by year’s end, doubling the current amount.
Everseat’s revenue model is based off a full-time subscription service paid and enabled by its providers — roughly 75 percent of which hail from the healthcare sector, according to Michaelis.
The entire Everseat ecosystem is built out around the end-user experience, Michaelis said. One of the startup’s co-founders, Brian Kaplan, serves as Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology at GBMC as well as Chair of the Institutional Graduate Medical Education Committee. He is a physician and the owner of Ear, Nose & Throat Associates at GBMC.
Kaplan’s experience in the medical field, knowledge of the deficiencies between business and patient care, and vast network of colleagues, helped inspire Everseat’s early focus on the healthcare scheduling market. But Michaelis said that the startup is now also exploring other verticals, highlighting an effort towards the restaurant booking game. John Martin, formerly OpenTable's director of sales and currently COO of New York City-based AllSeated, sits on Everseat’s advisory board.
Founded in early 2014, Everseat has raised $3.1 million in funding to date and expects to close the round at just under $5 million soon, according to Michaelis. Backers are a group of angel investors associated with the original founding team.
