In 1989, Raouf Khalil was running doctor home visits out of Los Angeles. Not because it was fashionable. Because he believed sick people shouldn't have to drive to get well. He built Professional Home Health Services into a machine delivering over 40,000 doctor visits a month across six US states. Option Care acquired it. Khalil took the cash and the conviction, and moved to Dubai.
He founded TruDoc 24x7 in 2011 when telemedicine was still a concept most Gulf families looked at sideways. His pitch was simple: a toll-free number and a mobile app, connected to a doctor, any hour. He called it a 24x7 Care Level Management system. Most people just called it surprising.
TruDoc didn't stay simple. By 2017, Khalil had built a partnership with Johns Hopkins University and launched a Hospital at Home program. Acute medical care delivered inside a patient's home. He layered in chronic disease management, on-site virtual clinics, pharmacy delivery, and diagnostics. Today, TruDoc serves 4.4 million paid subscribers and 6,700 multinational corporate clients: insurance carriers, governments, telecom providers, and brokerages across the GCC and Africa.
On March 6, 2026, TruDoc announced a $15 million pre-Series B round. The investors were the Al Nahyan and Al-Ketbi families, alongside repeat backer Pulsar Capital. When UAE royalty backs a healthcare company, the signal is clear: the region's most powerful stakeholders believe that physical infrastructure for healthcare needs a fundamental rethink.
Khalil's core argument has not shifted in 35 years. Hospitals are expensive, congested, and often unnecessary. The house call. Reimagined with technology, data, and 24-hour access. Beats the emergency room on every metric that matters. He sold that idea in California. He rebuilt it from scratch in Dubai. He is now preparing to scale it across the entire GCC and into Africa.
"The only truly sustainable healthcare solution aligns patients, payers, and providers through Evidence Based Medicine." He said that years ago. The Al Nahyan family just wrote a cheque agreeing with him.
When the same founder solves the same problem twice, on two different continents, separated by twenty years, it stops being luck.