Health-tech startup developing AI-powered diagnostic solutions for respiratory and hepato-pancreatico-biliary (HPB) diseases. Its main product bridges the gap caused by India's acute shortage of radiologists in tier 2 and smaller cities, where diagnosis is delayed by up to 10 days with error rates of up to 40%. “We're not just building AI diagnostic tools – we're saving lives by ensuring that a patient in a tier-3 city gets the same quality chest X-ray/CT/MRI/PET-CT Scan interpretation as someone in a metro hospital. Our 40.1% improvement in missed case detection, validated in Nature Scientific, proves that AI can be the great equalizer in healthcare access.” ₹4CR round from BioAngels (a part of IAN). IAN angels in this round: Nitin Zamre, Samir Kalia, Mitesh Shah. Founders: Ankit is a Professor in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow; Saumya has a PhD in Public Health and was part of the Google Brain team for three years. Founded in 2020.

Manufacturer of automated patient repositioning systems (placed on top of patients beds), for use in hospitals, rehabilitation centres and for home care. Funding will be used towards the manufacturing setup for its first product, Eturnal. ₹1.66CR seed round. Founder Asish (IIT Kanpur) was a Biodesign Fellow at the School of International Biodesign (AIIMS x IIT) and a Design Fellow at IIT Kanpur. Founded in Dec 2019.

BioTech startup focused on personalised cell-based regenerative therapies. Funding towards accelerating clinical trials for its diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) therapy and advance preclinical development of its osteoarthritis treatment platform. Anywhere between 5-25% of diabetes patients develop DFU, depending on the study. ₹3CR seed round. Founders: Senthill was a Research Fellow at John Hopkins, an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Human Virology (Univ. of Maryland) and is also the co-founder of Biomac Life Sciences, which continues to operate; Sanjoy (IIM-A) was the co-founder of Solace Care (sustainable alternatives for fuel-based chemicals). Founded in Jan 2021.

SaaS tools for hospitals and other healthcare service providers, including an outpatient (OPD) department management system, an end-to-end hospital OS, a clinical AI notetaker and an app for patients. Incubated at IIT Madras, the company is also integrating blockchain into a number of tools, for e.g. in managing sensitive organ donation databases. ₹6.5CR seed round. Founders: all three are IIT Madras. Prabhu is Head of the School of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at IIT Madras; Vijayaraja was co-founder at Gemicates (automation systems) for six years; Anirudh started out while still studying at IIT. Founded in Apr 2023.

AI research startup developing models using small datasets particularly for drug discovery. The goal is to create creative co-pilots and lifelong learning agents, with initial results expected by this December. The idea is that AI could recombine known patterns to propose novels ones, with the potential to revolutionise drug discovery. $2.6M seed round. Angels in the round include Girish Mathrubootham (Freshworks), Manav Garg (Eka Software). Founders: two of the co-founders Govind and Srikant built Curio, the AI-driven news companion, together for eight years. Co-founder Suzanne (PhD in Biological Sciences, Monash) has been an external collaborator at DeepMind the past five years, while Edgar (not linked here) has been at Google for a decade including as Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind. Founded in Apr 2025.

Kids focused health and wellness brand, with a range of clean-label products for coughs and colds - sore throat lollipops and throat sprays. For kids aged 2-12, going live D2C and on e-commerce this month/August. ₹8CR seed round. Angels in the round: Arjun Purkayastha (Reckitt), Arjun Vaidya (V3 Ventures), Avnish Chhabria (Wellbeing Nutrition), Mohit Gupta (Lyskraft), Siddhartha Nangia + Swagat Saranagi (Smytten). Founders: Sanil is ex-Flipkart (category head), Uber (GM), Udaan (pharma/medicines) with brief stints as a co-founder building Pharma.Tech (B2B pharma manufacturing marketplace) and Relymeds (15 min medicine delivery). Vishakha is ex-Agro Tech Foods (marketing), Ferrero (brand manager), Glenmark (marketing). Founded in Oct 2024.

Chain of IVF clinics which has started with a flagship location in Bandra, Mumbai. Services include IVF, egg and embryo freezing, fertility assessments and pre-conception consultations. It claims to be the first IVF chain with an integrated app, allowing patients to track treatment, access reports and stay informed. $4M seed round. Angels in the round: Ameera Shah (Metropolis Healthcare), Vijay Taparia (B2V Ventures). Founder Neha (Narsee Monjee) ran Fitternity.com for a decade (marketplace for 12K gyms and fitness centres - funded by Sixth Sense and Exfinity). Founded in 2024. Comps: Arva Health (All In, iSeed, Bharat Founders Fund).

AI agents for workflows across the lifesciences industry, starting with medical writing. As explained by Forbes, "the highly-regulated process of creating literature for regulators, healthcare professionals, patients and other key stakeholders is hugely costly for life sciences business" and also adds significant time to bring new treatments to market. "LogicFlo's approach has therefore been to develop a set of AI agents that can interact with life science companies existing technologies - systems such as Veeva and IQVIA - in order to automate the creation of the content they need. Every piece of literature produced can then be checked by a human being, but staff no longer need to spend countless hours developing the documents from scratch in the first place." $2.7M seed round. Founders: Udith (IIT Madras, HBS) is ex-BCG, Abbott and Dynamo AI; Arun (IIT Madras, Purdue) is a data scientist from AB InBev, Solinftec and Intuitive. Founded in May 2024.

Startup working on vaccine delivery through a needle-less Microneedle Array Patch (MAP). The technology eliminates the need for a cold chain, with vaccine viability maintained on the patch for up to 120 days at 40 degrees C. Clinical trials begin next year - built for the Indian market as well as other low and middle income countries. ₹5.5CR ($650K) seed round. The founders spun this out of IIT Kharagpur’s Microelectronics and MEMS Lab. Founded in Calcutta in 2020.

$1.5M seed round. Founders: CEBiotech company developing a vaccine targeting obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver. Funding is towards the the preclinical development of UT009, its immunotherapeutic candidate, and eventually Phase I human trials. "UT009 represents a paradigm shift by differentiating it from current obesity drugs by addressing the root causes of weight gain". $1.5M seed round. Founders: CEO Gopi (VIT) was the CEO of Kyntox Biotech (diagnostics kits for snakebites); co-founder Uday was Chief Scientific Officer at Dr Reddy's and has been the CEO of two nutraceuticals companies since. Founded in Mar 2024.O Gopi (VIT) was the CEO of Kyntox Biotech (diagnostics kits for snakebites); co-founder Uday was Chief Scientific Officer at Dr Reddy's and has been the CEO of two nutraceuticals companies since. Founded in Mar 2024.