Healthcare Marketplace Pianta Raises Seed Funding From FreeCharge Founders

Bangalore based Pianta, home healthcare services marketplace has raised undisclosed amount in seed funding from FreeCharge founders Kunal Shah and Sandeep Tandon.

Pianta was founded in 2015 by Swaminathan Seetharaman, Ganesh Subramanian and Nitin Agarwal, with an aim to connect trusted home health care providers with consumers.

It also sells home healthcare practice management software Pianta+ to enable home service providers to effectively manage their field force, track them real time and digitise customer details.

It is operational currently in Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Noida & Gurgaon as mentioned on the site.

Companies operating in this space include Accel and IFC backed Portea, while players like Apollo Hospitals, Dabur and Medwell Ventures are said to be big competitors of the portal. Other similar fundings in the home healthcare space include $4 Mn Series A raised by Care24 in January and $200K pre-Series A by Pramati in March 2016.

The development was first reported by Mint.