Home care startup that enables families to manage healthcare for elderly family members back home. Launched six months ago, with 3,000+ care requests managed across 10 cities in India. Customers pay a base $100 monthly fee for support and companionship through local health and telehealth partners, while arranging home visits, medication tracking, medical appointmenrs and seamless payment for expenses on behalf of families abroad. $2.4M seed round by funds in the UK. Incubated at Founders Factory and Aviva in the UK. Founder Anthony was most recently Head of Growth for East Asia at Taptap Send (remmitances). He briefly built Anjara (employee wellbeing app for Slack/Teams) and was Founder in Residence at Antler Toronto. Came up with the idea from trying to arrange home care for his parents in India during COVID. Founded in Jul 2024. Nila operates out of London, Bangalore and New York.

US-focused mental health platform that works with providers - psychiatrists, psychologists and therapists - to offer an integrated approach to patients, including clinical infrastructure (equipment and specialised staff); an AI platform to identify eligible patients and assist with prior authorizations; and an operational management platform (treatment delivery, billing, compliance). Launched three months ago, the company has contracted 75 mental health providers in the US. $7M seed round. Incubated by 2070 Health, a venture studio which was itself set up by W Health Ventures. Founders: CEO Ben is ex DaVita and was Chief Strategy Officer at Strive Health; Daniel was Head of US Ventures at 2070 Health and VP of Portfolio at Fractal Software, a SaaS venture studio; Ginger was VP of Clinical Operations at Mindful Health Solutions (behavioural healthcare). Founded in Apr 2025.

On demand diagnostics services, with blood tests in 15 minutes and reports in 90 minutes. Currently available in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. Works with NABL-accredited labs - Tata 1mg Labs, Redcliffe Labs, Healthians - for testing. ₹1.2CR pre-seed round.

AI powered digital health companion to assist users with understanding symptoms, interpreting medical reports and managing ongoing treatment. AI driven insights feed into a network of doctors and partner hospitals. The loop runs both ways - users can upload their medical documents to receive detailed analysis, bridging the gap between patients and healthcare providers. Currently serves 3.5M active users and 100K doctors globally. The website has a detailed comparison vs. just googling your problems. $3M round.

Platform that provides access for patients from the UK to high quality medical treatment in India, along with support across travel, concierge services and rehab, and will operate its own "aftercare" centers. The arbitrage/math is painfully (pun intended) obvious - a single hip replacement costs £17K in the UK, £5K with this company; an IVF cycle costs £9K in the UK, £4.5K over here. The goal is to expand to the US, Canada, Australia and Europe. $4.5M seed round. Other investors include 1947 Rise Fund; Peercheque; international cricketers Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, KL Rahul, through their athlete-led investment group 4CAST; along with Sriharsha Majety (Swiggy), Abhishek Goyal (Tracxn), Ritesh Malik (Innov8), Manish Vij (Smile Group), Arjun Vaidya (V3 Ventures).

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.