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Hyderabad-based healthcare startup eKincare has raised $329K (INR 2.2 Cr) in Pre-Series A round of funding from Bitkemy Ventures, Maheshwari Investment. Pvt. Ltd., and other HNIs including Anshoo Gaur, RamaKrishna Reddy and Sandeep Seerapu.
Founded in 2014 by Kiran Kalakuntla, eKincare is an online platform that enables users to monitor their critical medical information and all health records by keeping them on the cloud. This enables the users to access the dashboard from anywhere and anytime by using a PC or a mobile device.
The startup has a patent pending technology that gathers medical results and provides a single repository for users to store all their healthcare episodes. Besides, it can also identify the potential health risks from the data and provide a personalised health plan to beat risks.
The startup will use the funds raised to strengthen its product development, IP and hire talent.
Kiran Kalakuntla, founder & CEO, eKincare said, “We have seen tremendous excitement and interest from corporates to leverage our platform for their employees, keep track of the overall organization’s wellness metrics and maximise the ROI out of their wellness budgets. This round of funding was raised to bring in few strategic investors on board and will be utilised to further improve the B2B offering, expand to other cities and hiring for operations in new cities.”
eKincare is currently partnered with few healthcare players like Vasan, Apollo Dental, thyrocare, and Vijaya Diagnostics to bring an intelligent & comprehensive approach to preventive medicine and public healthcare delivery.
Prior to this, eKincare had raised funding from Adroitent Pvt. Ltd and Bitkemy Ventures in January 2015 and December 2014, respectively.
With an aim to ease digitisation of users’ medical records, eKincare competes with other electronic medical record (EMR) companies such as Mediangels, ViDoc, RxVault among others.
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