Imagine you’re on your way to work or school, and the unthinkable happens: you’re in a car accident.
After receiving medical care and getting your car towed, you contact a personal injury attorney to help guide you through the complex insurance process. As you muddle through all the paperwork and go back and forth with the law firm, providing them the details they need to build your case, you’re thinking, ‘I wish there were an app for this.’
Introducing Quilia, a client management app that streamlines the personal injury process for both the clients and the attorneys.
“At the beginning of a case, the law firm provides the client with the app on their phone,” says Kenny Eliason, founder and CEO of Las Vegas-based tech startup Quilia. “All the client has to do is follow the prompts, fill in the information, and document everything as it happens.”
Table of contents: Quilia App from a Las Vegas Startup
How the Quilia App Works
The app, which is available for both iOS and Android devices, features a personalized dashboard allowing clients to view all their case information in one place, an expense tracker for logging medical bills, lost wages, and transportation costs, a medical tracker to record medical treatments, and a daily record to provide detailed updates on injuries and pain levels.
Eliason, who previously worked at a local personal injury law firm, started working on the idea for Quilia in 2022 after speaking with dozens of local attorneys about improvements they’d like to see within their industry.
“I spoke with one attorney who told me about his favorite client, and it was because the client knew how to use technology to optimize and organize his case,” says Eliason. “The attorney also told me about his least favorite clients, and they were the ones not using technology. I realized if I could simplify the technology, I could make bad clients good, and good clients even better for attorneys.”
Not only does the app make it easier for the client to communicate efficiently with the attorney, but it also helps the law office increase client satisfaction while freeing up staff time.
“Quilia helped our firm identify gaps in treatment that were causing us to leave money on the table,” says Dean Tingey of Tingey Injury Law firm in Las Vegas, one of the clients using the new software. “Now we know our clients are getting the treatment they need, and we get the data we need to build their case.”
Startup Funding for Quilia App
Last fall, Quilia raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding, allowing the company to hire a full-time Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and kickstart a comprehensive sales and marketing strategy. Approximately 20 clients currently use the product, and the company expects to have an additional 10 clients on board by year’s end.
Quilia is among a growing number of tech startups calling the Las Vegas Valley home, an industry sector LVGEA is dedicated to supporting.
“Quilia is a perfect example of the type of home-grown innovative startup LVGEA is working to help grow in the region,” says Heather Brown, senior vice president of entrepreneurial development at LVGEA. “We believe Las Vegas can become an entrepreneurial powerhouse, and having ideas that are built, tested, and deployed right here in our backyard is how it starts.”
Eliason, who is a Las Vegas native and UNLV graduate, says the idea of entrepreneurship has always appealed to him.
“When I was a kid, my dad and I would drive around town, and we’d talk about local businesses and their marketing. We’d look at storefronts or billboards and talk about what we thought worked and what businesses could do better. So, as I got older, I was always thinking, ‘someone should do this, or someone should do that.’ It’s always on my brain.”
Building a Tech Startup Scene in Las Vegas
This isn’t Eliason’s first foray into the region’s startup scene; in the 2010s, he and a friend started a digital marketing company and a coworking space. And even though Las Vegas isn’t well recognized nationally as a tech hub, Eliason says there’s no better place to be a startup.
“Every businessperson comes to Las Vegas at least once a year, if not twice,” says Eliason. “Not only are your clients coming to you, but it’s also a great testing ground for new products. Every type of person comes through this town, so there’s a huge market for product testing.”
The growing startup currently has two full-time employees but also employs seven interns from the UNLV School of Engineering’s StepUp and StartUp internship program, highlighting the region’s commitment to creating a talent pipeline for the expanding tech industry.
“I’m a huge advocate of this region as a tech startup hub,” says Eliason. “I grew up here, and I want it to be successful. My goal is not only for our company to start here, but to stay here. I want this company to prove that startups can work here. I’m hoping to help put Vegas on the map.”
For more information on the resources available to startups in the Las Vegas region, connect with Heather Brown, LVGEA’s Senior Vice President of Entrepreneurial Development.
