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Our story

A specialist surgeon.
A product engineer.

The Digital Clinic is founder-led. Christophe has practised and governed veterinary medicine for twenty years — from his own referral hospital to the boardroom of a 400-clinic group. Hannes has built software products for twenty-five. They met by chance, working on their boats; everything since has been built with practising veterinarians.

Dr. Christophe Malet Christophe · the veterinarian
Hannes Schippmann Hannes · the builder
Founders

One from the clinic floor. One from the internet.

Dr. Christophe Malet
Dr. Christophe Malet
Founder & CEO · Veterinarian

A veterinary specialist in small-animal surgery, Christophe was a founding board member of CHV Aquivet near Bordeaux — one of France's leading referral centres — where he operated as senior specialist surgeon and head of department for twelve years. He then spent nearly a decade on the group side: M&A and Chief Medical Officer France, group-wide continuous improvement across 400 clinics in 14 countries, and finally Medical Director Scandinavia at AniCura.

Operating table, hospital board, international group — he has seen veterinary medicine from every seat, and the platform is built from that view. He leads its product vision and clinical relevance, and he remains a vet first.

Hannes Schippmann
Hannes Schippmann
Founder · Product & engineering

Hannes has been building on the internet since his first year of university in 2000. Three companies of his own and fifteen years of shipping full-stack products for startups across Germany and Sweden, from fintech to e-commerce. He loves building products; problems are what he collects.

At The Digital Clinic he turns vision into software: the product, engineering, security and compliance behind the platform — EU-hosted, encrypted in transit and at rest, governed to ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 — and he personally answers every security question a clinic sends.

The story

From the docks to a clinical platform.

01 · The docks
A chance meeting.

Christophe and Hannes met working on their boats — and the talk drifted from engines to a problem worth solving.

02 · All in
One conversation became weekly.

Clinic floor and internet, overlapping exactly where it matters: the entrepreneurial mind.

03 · Late 2023
Tele-expertise, hand-coded.

The first product kept patients in-house instead of referring them away — specialists working free of the hospital 9-to-5.

04 · Today
One clinical platform.

Voice as the input, agents as the analysts — built with 200+ veterinarians, and the decision stays with the vet.

How the two of us work

Christophe sees it. Hannes builds it.

The vision

Christophe pitches an idea founded in a deep understanding of the veterinary market — from the operating table to the boardroom of a 400-clinic group.

The product

The pitch immediately sparks the how in Hannes: architecture, product, shipping — something that serves many clinics and companies, not just one.

That loop — vision meeting build, every week since the docks — is the company.

2023
The first line of code
200+
Veterinarians building with us
2
Founders, one problem
EU
Hosted & governed · Clean Wake AB, Sweden

The next chapter is written with veterinarians.

Thirty minutes with Christophe — your practice, your constraints, and what the platform can do about them.

Dr. Christophe Malet Book a demo with Dr. Christophe Malet Founder & CEO

Or write to us — team@digitalclinic.vet