EmergePet didn't start with a business plan. It started with a veterinarian watching pet owners arrive — night after night — without any medical history for their animals.
I've worked as an emergency veterinarian in New Jersey for over a decade. In that time, I've seen the same problem play out thousands of times: a pet arrives at the ER in distress, and the owner doesn't know the animal's current medications, doesn't remember the last vaccine date, and can't reach the primary vet at 2am.
We make decisions with incomplete information. Sometimes that means running redundant tests. Sometimes it means missing a drug interaction. Sometimes it means a phone call to a closed clinic that goes nowhere.
EmergePet is the app I wished my patients' owners had. It's designed by someone who knows what a vet actually needs to see when an animal walks through the door — and what an owner needs to feel prepared rather than helpless.
The relationship between a pet and their vet shouldn't restart from zero every time they walk into a new clinic. Medical history belongs to the patient — or in this case, to the family that loves them.
EmergePet is building the infrastructure that makes pet health records portable, verifiable, and instantly shareable — without requiring every vet in the country to use the same software, or every owner to carry a folder of papers they'll inevitably forget.
We're starting with the moment it matters most: the emergency. And we're building outward from there.
Download the app for your pet, or reach out about bringing EmergePet to your clinic.