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When Ari Sonesh sold CosmoCom to Canada's Enghouse Systems in March in a $20 million cash deal, he walked away from the company he helped found promising to create a new cloud-based venture.
Five months later, Sonesh said he thinks he may have found it.
Sonesh has been hard at work financing his new startup, which he calls Meditel360 - a telemedicine software solution for providing health care remotely. Through telemedicine, physicians can interact with their patients through a variety of means, including video conferencing, while making results from routine checkups automatically available electronically.
"It's all about efficiency and reducing the number of visits a patient has to make to the doctor's office," Sonesh said. "And it's not just for health care related to medical treatment, but it could be used in several different scenarios, such as speech therapy, where it's much more effective to have a therapist work with someone for 10 minutes a day than for an hour a week."
While the new venture is still in its early stages, Sonesh is optimistic he can achieve the same success he saw with CosmoCom, saying he hopes to eventually take the company public, as well as global.
He's still got a long way to go. Sonesh has yet to secure his first customer. Plus, he's entering...