Figure 1

Figure 1 is a Toronto, Ontario-based online social networking service for healthcare professionals to post and comment on medical images.

[4] In 2015, the company added $5 million (USD) to its Series A financing round,[5] which was led by Union Square Ventures, an early investor in Twitter, Tumblr, Etsy, and Kickstarter.

When the company launched in Europe in 2014, privacy concerns were raised over the sharing of personal medical information.

[8] The app has a built-in consent form which every patient signs via a smartphone, as well as tools make it easy to anonymize an image.

[9] Before the company launched in 2013, it claimed that 13 percent of medical professionals were already using their smartphones to share images with one another via email or text message.