This startup helps vets spend more time with pets and less time on admin. Check out the 10-slide pitch deck Digitail used to raise $11 million.

Pet ownership spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, fuelling a need for greater efficiency.A startup that helps vets automate their often antiquated management systems has raised $11 million in fresh funds.Romania-based Digitail aims to help practitioners spend more time with patients as they jostle with vastly increased pet ownership in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. "Todays reality is that there is a massive shortage of vets compared to the number of pets and that means they have less time to split between seeing pets and managing clinics," Digitail CEO Sebastian Gabor told Insider. "A lot of clinics use pen and paper or legacy administration systems but our platform automates much of that admin so they can allocate resources elsewhere. Users pay a fee to migrate their data to Digitails platform and then pay a monthly subscription fee.The company already works with over 750 clinics in 16 countries but Gabor said Digitail was only scratching the surface in major focus markets like the US. Funding for the Series round A was led by Atomico, who join previous investors byFounders, Gradient, and Partech.Digitail will use the funds to expand its product team in Eastern Europe and its commercial teams in North America with a plan to be in 2000 animal hospitals or clinics in the next year.