Barkibu
AI-driven pet health platform combining symptom triage, 24/7 vet telehealth, and digital pet insurance.
About
Barkibu is a Spanish pet health company that bundles three things into one app: an AI-powered vet assistant that triages symptoms using proprietary algorithms trained on real case data, a telehealth service connecting owners with licensed vets by chat, call, or video, and fully digital pet insurance. Owners can check symptoms, talk to a live vet, get preventive-care reminders, and file claims by uploading a vet invoice photo in the app.
The insurance reimburses 80% of illness and accident costs up to 3,000 euros per year plus preventive care like vaccinations, with reimbursement in under 48 hours. The vendor says it covers more than 120,000 cats and dogs across Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Finland, and Germany, and reports 4.5 out of 5 review ratings. Founded in Galicia around 2014, the company has raised roughly $11-13 million from Kfund and Mundi Ventures. Diagnostic and triage claims are vendor-reported; the AI assistant is positioned as triage, not a substitute for veterinary diagnosis.
What it can do
- AI-powered symptom triage
- 24/7 vet telehealth via chat, call, and video
- Digital pet insurance with 80% reimbursement
- 48-hour claim reimbursement
- Preventive care coverage
- Vaccination and deworming reminders
- Invoice photo claim filing
Setup
Download the Barkibu app, create a pet profile, and choose the telehealth plan or insurance policy for your country.
Prerequisites
Barkibu app; residence in a supported European country for insurance; pet aged 2 months to 11 years at signup.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 6/10
Scored 6/10 (TIER metrics, metrics-v1). Evidence: official landing page confirms 80% reimbursement, 3,000 euro annual cap, and 100,000+ insured pets; Tech.eu and Novobrief document funding rounds totaling ~$11M+; 150sec documents the AI triage telehealth model. Strengths: integrated triage plus insurance model, multi-country European footprint, strong review ratings. Docked for: (1) AI diagnostic and triage accuracy claims are vendor-reported without independent validation; (2) insurance availability is limited to seven European countries. License: proprietary SaaS and insurance products.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 4.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · ~$11-13M raised from Kfund and Mundi Ventures
- · 120,000+ insured pets across 7 European countries per vendor
- · AI triage accuracy claims vendor-reported without independent validation
- · Insurance limited to seven European countries
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.