- Fitness Startup CureFit Secures $25 Mn From Kalaari Capital, Others Bengaluru-based fitness startup CureFit has raised $25 Mn in Series B round of funding from existing investors Accel Partners, IDG Ventures, Kalaari Capital and UC-RNT fund. The startup will use the newly raised funds to expand the company’s geographical footprint in the country and scale-up its business verticals. Vani Kola, Managing Director at Kalaari Capital […]
- Arianna Huffington Wants Indians To Thrive Than Merely Survive – Brings Thrive Global To India In Partnership With Times Bridge Earlier last week, Arianna Huffington announced the launch of her venture – Thrive Global in India. Thrive Global is a well-being and productivity platform that offers corporate services, a media platform and technology. Speaking to Inc42, Arianna Huffington said, “Indians have always known what it means to live a good life. The Bhagavad Gita describes three different […]
- Milind Soman Joins The Startup Bandwagon With His First Investment In Health Food Startup ONTHERUN Actor and fitness icon Milind Soman has made his first ever investment foray in the health and wellness sector, with Stayfit Enterprize Pvt Ltd – a natural health food startup that makes food products under the brand name ONTHERUN. The actor who invested an undisclosed amount in the venture will also be the brand ambassador […]
- 5,000 Clients, 30 Countries: SaaS Startup Zenoti Aims To Give A Technology Turnaround To The Wellness Industry Experience is a great teacher – John Legend And most times, the best. At least it was true in Sudheer Koneru’s case. Sudheer started his career in Seattle at Microsoft. After an eight-year-stint dabbling in enterprise software, he founded an integrated HR solutions firm SumTotal Systems. In nine years, he grew it to a $100 […]
- How Indigenous Trauma Care Startup Axio Biosolutions Aims to Reduce Deaths Due to Uncontrollable Bleeding On Indian Borders And Roads Alike Uncontrollable bleeding is a major killer in battlefields. Almost 50% of the soldiers who have died, so far, died due to bleeding and about 30% of these were preventable deaths. The world over, militaries have made efforts to build products that ensure people don’t die due to bleeding. But India was lagging behind. That was […]
- Indonesian Bike Taxi Service Go-Jek Acquires Healthcare Marketplace Pianta Sequoia-backed Indonesian bike-taxi service Go-Jek has acquired Bengaluru-based healthcare marketplace Pianta for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition will help fast track the development of Go-Jek’s logistics and transportation platforms to support its Indonesia operations. Sidu Ponnappa, Managing Director, Go-Jek Engineering India said, “Pianta’s core team comes from Ola and Flipkart and their expertise in the logistics and payments […]
- Health & Wellness Startup Poshtick Raises $450K From Noida Based HNI Noida-based Poshtick, a health & wellness startup, has raised $450K funding from two HNIs, Bhavya Sharma and Amit Nagar. Founded in 2016 by Pranav Sharma and Kritik Thakur, Poshtick offers a combination of functional, nutritional, and value-added food products providing end-to-end health solutions. “Poshtick intends to be a one-stop shop for all ‘health and wellness’ […]
- On demand healthcare app Visit raises seed funding Delhi-based on-demand healthcare service provider, Visit, has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from technology company MapmyIndia. The healthcare app was founded in 2015 by BITS Pilani alumni, Anurag Prasad, Vaibhav Singh, Chetan Anand and Shashvat Tripathi. The founders experienced a dire need of such a service on the BITS Pilani campus, which is […]
- 1mg Attracts Funding From Top Global Healthcare Investor HBM Healthcare Investments Digital health platform, 1mg has raised an additional investment from HBM as a part of its recently closed Series B round of funding. Earlier in April, 1MG had announced investment of $15 Mn in Series B funding from Maverick Capital Ventures along with existing investors Sequoia India and Omidyar Network. HBM is among the global leaders in healthcare-focused investing with around […]
- Wellness Expert Dr. Deepak Chopra Launches Health And Wellness Startup Jiyo Committed to help create a more peaceful, sustainable, happier, and healthy world, wellness guru Deepak Chopra has joined hands with former Nortel and Motorola executive Poonacha Machaiah to launch Jiyo, a health and wellness startup. Bangalore-based Jiyo is a personal wellbeing companion. Its comprehensive digital platform lets users engage, learn, and interact with a diverse […]
- My Child App’s New Version Uses AI To Track Child Growth My Child, a mobile app for parents to detect developmental disorders in their child, has launched a new version of the app. Today, 1 out of 6 children suffers from development disorder. The new update, power packed with salient features, makes use of artificial intelligence and quickens the process of detection. Traditionally, it takes up […]
- Practo Launches Operations in Brazil HealthTech startup Practo has launched its services in Brazil, the largest market in Latin America and the 5th largest economy in the world. This marks the entry of Practo to the sixth international market. Practo will start with São Paulo and will introduce Practo Search and Practo Ray to the Brazilian market. Both the platforms will […]