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Asistta

Asistta

Company Overview

Website: www.asistta.com

Headquarters: Colombia

Country of Operations: Information not available

Women owned / led: At least 30% of women in board of directors, At least 30% women in senior leadership positions, At least 51% owned by women, Founded by at least one woman

Year of founding: 2020

Number of FTEs: >1000 FTEs

Legal status of the organization: For-profit

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Care economy activities and business model

About the organization:
Asistta is a Colombian platform that connects health professionals with users who require home services, medicine administration, physiotherapy, respiratory therapy, psychological services, nutrition, speech therapy, and nursing. Around 90% of its workforce are women. The Asistta platform is focused on supporting informal caregivers to enter the economy through an academic support network. In addition, it provides caregivers with the necessary training to enter the labor market by giving them the possibility of learning from home.

Activities in the care economy:
Provision of technology & services that train/upskill domestic & care workers (e.g. technology that links employers to domestic/care workers), Provision of technology, services & policies/practice that improve condition for domestic & care worker (e.g. apps that calculate decent remuneration), Provision of affordable services that provide care & domestic work (e.g. affordable daycare services in rural areas)

Stage of growth: Small scale roll-out/Early stage

Type of services: Infant-care (children younger than 1-year), Elderly-care (Ages 60 and above), Care for persons with special needs (disabled / differently abled persons), Care for people with illnesses

Number of customers (2020): Information not available

Number of customers (2019): Information not available

Number of customers (2018): Information not available

Financials

Profitability status:
Not profitable yet but planning to become profitable within 3 years

Revenue USD (2020): 1 Mn or more

Revenue USD (2019): 1 Mn or more

Revenue USD (2018): Less than 10K

Pathways to impact

Challenge addressed:
Lack of / poor remuneration for care and domestic workers (Reward), Limited redistribution of care and domestic work to other actors in the care economy (Redistribute)

Pathway to impact – 4 Rs: Reward, Redistribute

Populations affected: Unpaid care workers, Paid care workers, Unpaid domestic workers, Paid domestic workers, Infants or children, Elderly people, Persons with special needs or with illnesses

Number of people served (2020): Information not available

Number of people served (2019): Information not available

Number of people served (2018): Information not available