- DocsApp Aims To Make Online Consultation In Tier II Areas As Easy As Using WhatsApp Through AI Algorithms The doctor-patient ratio in India is 1:1700, as per a World Bank, report 2012. This is the state of a country with 1.2 Bn population with not enough doctors to serve the masses. However, the practice of telemedicine, online healthcare services on smartphones and through the Internet is looking to change this ratio. Present day […]
- Decoding The Healthtech Space In India: What Is Stopping It From Being Healthy? [Note: This article is part of The Junction Series. Get a deep dive on innovations in HealthTech and the Indian startup ecosystem. Learn more about The Junction here!] Consider the following stats about India’s healthcare from Portea Medical: 2 Mn is the gap in bed capacity. ~75% is the population without health insurance. ~315 Mn are affected […]
- 4 Mn Downloads, 100K Doctors, $11.43 Mn Funding: Healthcare Platform Lybrate Looks To Close ‘Awareness-Engagement-Action’ Loop For Patients [Note: This article is part of The Junction Series. We will be covering the HealthTech sector in detail at The Junction 2017 in Jaipur. Learn more about The Junction here!] “In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences put together.” – Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures. […]
- The Rise Of The Bot Brigade: How Startups Are Leveraging Chat Bots To Gain Traction Bots are the new flavour of the season in the Indian startup ecosystem as everyone is jumping on the bot bandwagon. Microsoft is building a Bing Concierge Bot – a new bot for messaging apps like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger which does what a human assistant would do. Similarly Google is working on Google Assistant – a […]
- The Resilient Health-Tech Startups (Part –II): Challenge Accepted! Challenge accepted! This hilarious catchphrase was used by Barney Stinson – the character played by actor Neil Patrick Harris in the American sitcom How I Met Your Mother – every time he stood up to take up the craziest of challenges. He never shied away from any of them and tackled them with utmost dedication. […]
- The Resilient Health-Tech Startups (Part I): Immune To Challenges “Generally, health (sector) is just so heavily regulated. It’s just a painful business to be in. It’s just not necessarily how I want to spend my time,” said Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google during a fireside chat with Vinod Khosla – the billionaire venture capitalist and co-founder of Sun Microsystems – at the 2014 KV […]
- Times Group Backs Healthcare Services Aggregator Startup Zoctr Mumbai-based Zoctr, a healthcare aggregator platform, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from ad-for-equity media investor Times Group under its innovative Brand Capital Incubator Funding Model that provides funding for long-term brand building and advertising needs of growth oriented companies against equity participation. Founded in January 2015, by Nidhi Saxena, Zoctr, allows users to buy […]
- Funding Galore: Startup Fundings Of The Week [6 July – 11 July] This week, Indian music streaming company Saavn announced that it has raised $100Mn in Series C round of funding which was led by Tiger Global Management with existing investors Bertelsmann India Investments, Steadview Capital, Liberty Media, and Mousse Partners also participating in the round. The week was full of funding and acquisition activities. This week 15 startups raised […]
- Healthcare Communication and Delivery Platform Lybrate Raises $10.2 Mn From Tiger Global, Nexus and Ratan Tata Delhi-based mobile-first healthcare information, access and delivery platform, Lybrate has raised $10.2 Mn in Series A funding from Tiger Global Management, Ratan Tata and existing investor Nexus Venture Partners. With the infused funds the startup plans to develop products, recruit talent, augment technology and scale operations. Founded in 2013 by Saurabh Arora & Rahul Narang, Lybrate […]
- Indian Startup Hubs: 49 Delhi Startups To Look Out For As part of our Indian Startup Hubs Series in past few weeks we have discussed about the startup ecosystems in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore. This week, we will be covering about the growing Startup Ecosystem in Delhi & NCR. In India, Delhi is at second position in terms of number of startups and investors present. […]
- Connect With Doctors At Click Of A Button With Lybrate The healthcare industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world and business models are being prepared to evolve the industry and make it accessible to everyone out there. The industry in India itself is expected to reach $280 Bn by the year 2020. Gone are the days when you had to go […]
- Funding Galore: A Look At Startups That Raised Funding This Week The passing week went pretty interesting for the Indian ecommerce segment, as apart from ecommerce ventures raising funds, two ecommerce logistics companies also grabbed funding. With this, Blume Ventures also disclosed its investments in 4 startupsin which it had deployed funds in the past quarter. Have a look at the startups that raised funding this week: […]