The Tech Media Invest 100 aims to showcase young entrepreneurial companies that are developing innovative new ways to serve business and consumers, and have the potential to radically change the shape of the technology and media industry. The Tech Media Invest Advisory Board felt iPLATO (along with other companies) was an example of the kind of company that may go on to be the leaders of tomorrow.

"Being on the Media Tech Top 100 list is confirmation of the emergence of iPLATO as an exciting business across the innovation spectrum," said Tobias Alpsten Managing Director of iPLATO Healthcare. "Our company provides powerful new services that really make a difference to patients and healthcare professionals around the country. As a unique proposition, our mobile health services deliver measurable health benefits to patients, but they also deliver significant cost savings, making them a valuable choice in the midst of financial challenges for the NHS. iPLATO has more than doubled in size over the last six months, so this popularity is not exactly news to the thousands of healthcare professionals and millions of patients we work with every day. What is new is us emerging as an exciting proposition compared to growth businesses across sectors beyond healthcare."

The Tech Media Invest Advisory Board deployed a detailed process to whittle down a pool of eligible, promising companies to get to the top 100 winners. Evaluations were made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy, and ecosystem integration. The results were moderated by the Board which consisted of some of the UK’s most experienced investors in modern technology and media - a mix of venture capitalists, investment analysts, professional advisers and technology lawyers, who applied their expertise to identify the best performers and the ones to watch.

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About iPLATO
iPLATO Healthcare is a London based innovation company dedicated to mobile health since 2006. iPLATO's evidence based mobile health solutions have proven to improve patient access to healthcare, to enable powerful health promotion targeted at people at risk and to support people with long term conditions.

Serving millions of patients and thousands of healthcare professionals every day iPLATO has emerged as the leader in mobile health. Across this network the company is running campaigns to promote smoking cessation, weight loss, childhood immunisation and pandemic awareness as well as mobile disease management services for people with diabetes, hypertension, epilepsy and HIV.

iPLATO Healthcare's mission is to, in partnership with healthcare professionals and provider organisations, support patients in achieving longer, healthier lives.