Startup Medici gets $22.4M to keep expanding

Medici, an Austin startup that has developed a mobile app to connect doctors and patients, has landed $22.4 million in funding as investors continue to give the company a strong prognosis.

The new money — on top of $24.2 million raised about 18 months ago — comes from a number of prominent business people, Medici said, including retired Dell executive Tom Meredith, retired Publix Super Markets CEO Howard Jenkins and hedge fund manager Ken Griffin of Citadel.

Medici founder and CEO Clinton Phillips said the money primarily will be used for engineering and to beef up the functionality of the company’s app, enabling it to work in multiple languages and countries.

In addition, the company is boosting its hiring and has plans to add “at least” 20 employees in Austin, Phillips said, on top of 15 already here.

Medici currently has a 36 employees, including workers at offices in Houston, Washington,