The hunger for success makes you forget about health. You might be engrossed with your startup but don't work yourself to death for a bright entrepreneurial future. A wise man once said that health is wealth.
The healthcare sector is growing rapidly in the Indian landscape, in terms of revenue as well as market share. The Indian healthcare industry pegged at $100 billion is expected to grow by 23% by 2020 to $280 billion. This growing market has given rise to many health-tech startups in India. They cater to various healthcare segments, help book appointments, sell medicines online, and operate as a commercialized unit of the venture.
We have also covered a list of Pharmaceutical Startups in India.
In this post, we take a look at some prospering, promising, and growing health startups in India. Here is a list of healthcare companies in India:
List of top pharma startups in India
1. Netmeds
2. ImpactGuru
3. Docplexus
4. Mera Medicare
5. 3Hcare
6. Ekincare
7. Practo
8. PharmEasy
9. AddressHealth
10. BloodSure
11. Consure Medical
12. DocTalk
13. HealthKart
14. EUOR Health
15. BeatO
16. Niramai
17. LiveHealth
18. Lybrate
19. Docttocare
20. Criador Design Labs
21. Green Cure Wellness
1. Netmeds
One of the biggest healthcare startups in India, Netmeds is an online platform that has firmly established itself as India’s leading online pharmacy with millions of active customers and deliveries to more than 19,000 PIN codes. It is also called ‘India ki Pharmacy’ and offers streamlined shopping for medicines and other healthcare products through its 24x7 online portal and mobile app.
Netmeds is supported by over 14 logistics centers spread across the country. Netmeds has a multilingual voice, chat, and email customer care center and a team of licensed pharmacists who receive, digitize, and approve millions of handwritten prescriptions.
In 2018, Netmeds had 3 million downloads and grew to more than $512 million; it is projected to top $3.645 billion by the year 2022.
2. ImpactGuru
ImpactGuru is a tech-for-good platform founded with a vision to make healthcare accessible to all and save more lives. It provides comprehensive crowdfunding solutions to empower individuals, NGOs, and social enterprises to raise funds for medical emergencies and other similar causes.
3. Docplexus
Docplexus is a platform for doctors where they can create their own communities and discuss problems with other doctors from all around the world. Founded by Phanish Chandra, an IITian, Docplexus has more than 2,75,000 Doctors as its members. It is a free platform; however, one needs to be a licensed doctor to create an account on DocPlexus.
4. Mera Medicare
Founded by Pankaj Gupta, MeraMedicare is a healthcare startup. MeraMedicare provides home delivery of medicines in 2 to 12 hours with a 15% discount on almost all medicines. It is a reliable and hassle-free option for ordering medicines.
5. 3Hcare
3Hcare is a Delhi-based healthcare startup. It is an online marketplace for healthcare services. 3Hcare provides detailed information on healthcare services across India. Users can simply log on to 3Hcare’s website and find out about diagnostic centers and hospitals as per their requirements. The name "3Hcare" stands for "Help, Health, and Happiness" and signifies the startup's vision to help people maintain their health and happiness.
6. Ekincare
Ekincare is one of the most innovative health-tech startups in India. Ekincare provides people with the facility to save their medical documents and access those documents anytime from anywhere. Ekincare keeps your data secure and also lets you understand your medical data in a simplified manner through graphical charts and visuals.
7. Practo
Practo is one of the world’s leading healthcare platforms and an independent medical website that focuses on patients connects millions of patients with healthcare providers and doctors around the world and helps people make better healthcare decisions.
Practo helps its consumers manage healthcare requirements such as searching for healthcare experts, booking an appointment with doctors, online doctor consultation, getting their tests done, and ordering medicines online. Practo is a patient-focused medical website and has over 1 lac doctor profiles from all over India and Singapore. Practo is a free service for the patients and the doctors.
Practo also provides its users with a diagnostics search feature on its web-based platform through high-quality photographs and filter options. It lets users manage their reports and medical data using the app.
Practo is a Bangalore-based health-tech startup launched in 2008. Practo was founded by Shashank ND and Abhinav Lal. They built the software platform to digitize their health records and facilitate online consultations.
8. PharmEasy
One of the top healthcare startups in India, PharmEasy is a Mumbai-based pharma platform founded by Dharmil Sheth in 2015 .PharmEasy is led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Orios Venture Partners. It is one of the most successful healthcare startups in India. PharmEasy is currently operating in seven cities—Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Pune, Jaipur and Ahmedabad—and has over 150 partner vendors.
It was launched with a vision to deliver medicines at affordable rates by optimizing supply chain and logistics. PharmEasy now serves more than 100,000 families. The PharmEasy app lets users place orders with just three clicks and re-ordering can be done in one click. It plans to build an ecosystem using technology to connect patients, pharmacies, doctors, diagnostic centers, and healthcare service providers so that each can interact with the other hassle-free. PharmEasy also connects pharmacies spread across the cities, towns, and villages of India.
9. AddressHealth
AddressHealth was founded by Anand Lakshman in 2010 to ensure that every child attains a state of positive health. AddressHealth is India’s first one-stop-shop for pediatric primary healthcare services.
AddressHealth presently operates three clinics in Bangalore and provides comprehensive pediatric healthcare through clinics and schools for children and adults. AddressHealth has partnered with the government in the MR Vaccine program. AddressHealth reached out to 300,000 students through schools till 2017. It received funding of $1.5 million in series A from Grey Matters Capital and Unitus Seed Fund.
10. BloodSure
BloodSure was founded by Raghav Baldwa in 2012 and is a NPO social platform that connects blood and platelet donors to those in need. It aims to purge India of blood shortage by 2027 and has a strong community of over 1.25 lac active donors in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal. BloodSure has been able to reach 15,000 patients so far.
It has organized over 35 camps and has collected 4,000 pints of blood from over 75,000 blood donors. Raghav Baldwa is working on a blood donation app, a location-based application that will help locate and communicate with blood donors in the vicinity. BloodSure raised $5000 in seed funding in 2013. Its new initiative is a collaboration with the World Health Organization to raise awareness about depression and help people afflicted by the condition.
“My father has donated blood over 60 times so far. I’ve learnt that if there’s anyone who is in need of blood, surely there’s someone who can donate blood and help save a precious life.” -Raghav Baldwa, founder of BloodSure
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11. Consure Medical
Consure Medical is a Delhi-based company founded by Nishith Chasmawala and Amit Sharma in 2012. It is an emerging medical device company that focuses on developing and commercializing novel critical care technologies for 80% of the global population that does not have access to subsidized healthcare. Consure Medical delivers fecal incontinence therapy devices.
Consure Medical delivers a solution for fecal containment to assist bedridden patients. Qora is an applicator inserted into the anal cavity to provide a pathway for stool diversion with very little leakage. It offers Qora stool management kit which contains an indwelling fecal drainage device for the management of fecal incontinence and can be used across a continuum of care facilities, from ICUs to nursing homes. The company is also operational in San Francisco, California.
12. DocTalk
DocTalk is a Mumbai-based healthcare software application to store medical reports and prescriptions and share the same with your doctor. It was founded by Akshat Goenka and Vamsee Chamakura in 2016. DocTalk provides an AI-based virtual assistant application to simplify the healthcare ecosystem of India.
It allows patients to safely save all their medical reports and files on the cloud which can then be accessed from anywhere digitally.
13. HealthKart
Healthkart is a Gurgaon-based company founded in 2011 and offers various fitness products and services to help consumers achieve their fitness goals through its e-health store. It is one of the biggest medical e-stores in India. Healthkart offers various healthcare products such as nutrition supplements, diabetes supplies, home medical devices, and baby care products. These products can be ordered online and are delivered by HealthKart personnel to ensure safety. The healthcare platform was initially launched as a website and a mobile app that would function as a generic drug search portal. It has now become a marketplace for customers to search and purchase much more than just prescribed drugs.
Approximately 80-90% of the supplements sold in India are imported from developed countries like the US and Europe. Heavy customs duty on supplements attracts large amounts of parallel or unethical imports. Given these products have been illegally imported into the country, sourcing information is not available and thus quality becomes a question. HealthKart provides 100% authentic products to its customers by maintaining:
- Tight control over the supply chain.
- Quality control during distribution.
- 14 days hassle-free return policy.
The company has also launched FitUp which is an app for health and fitness supplements. It offers free assistance and nutrition counselling.
14. EUOR Health
EUOR Health is a Kolkata-based company founded by Sudip Mukherjee and Chandrima Mukherjee in 2013. It is one of the fastest growing healthcare marketplaces in India. EUOR stands for ‘Everything U Obviously Require’. Euor Health plans to set up over 1,000 tele clinics across India over the next few years.
EUOR Health is an online marketplace for healthcare services where people can search, identify, book, and buy their required healthcare services with just one click or even by giving one call. It provides healthcare needs and guidance for services like diagnostics, doctor’s appointments, hospital admission, pathology, instant doctor’s consultation, preventive health care, rehabilitation, and second opinion.
EUOR Health offers comfort and convenience at pocket-friendly prices. EUOR Health distributes a unique card, EUOR Health Card, to assign a unique Health Account number to the consumer's family. Health care provides support in the form of health insurance, accidental insurance, home healthcare support, and health services/products.
15. BeatO
Founded for diabetes patients, BeatO provides a convenient and smart device to measure blood sugar levels. You can use them with your smartphone by putting it in the headphone jack and using the strip to measure your blood sugar level. After you measure your blood sugar, it offers you suggestions and shares the results with BeatO’s experts if medical intervention is needed.
16. Niramai
Founded in 2016, Niramai wants to minimize fatalities attributed to breast cancer. Breast cancer, which most females take for granted in the initial stages, is one of the most common forms of cancer among women. To make it easier to detect breast cancer at an early stage and that too at a lower cost, Niramai uses thermal analytics and artificial intelligence. The technology is mobile; therefore, offering ease of access and usage.
17. LiveHealth
Founded by Abhimanyu Bhosle and Mukund Malani in 2013, Live Health makes it easy for healthcare providers to provide their services. Live Health makes the process for labs easier as they can access the information and reports of their patient online. Live Health also helps clinics and labs with operations, marketing, administration, etc. Through Live Health, labs and clinics can focus on their internal processes and the patients instead of worrying about business factors.
18. Lybrate
Available in 4 cities, Lybrate helps find the perfect doctor near you. Many times, a doctor's visit isn't out of necessity but for one's satisfaction. To save your time as well as of the doctor’s, you can consult the doctor on Lybrate. There are more than 1,50,000 professionals who will help you with Lybrate.
19. Docttocare
Docttocare is an online healthcare service provider. It provides information about the best doctors, clinics, hospitals, and diagnostic centers to its users. The platform also offers virtual walkthroughs of the hospital/clinic to showcase hospitality and facilities.
Docttocare makes booking appointments super easy and assures the confirmation of online appointments through phone calls, SMS, or email. Docttocare launched its services in 2018 at NASSCOM Bangalore. It received a few awards in 2019.
20. Criador Design Labs
Criador Design Labs was founded by Abhishek Reddy and Hitesh Devara in 2017. Criador Design Labs is a product design firm that develops new, innovative hardware technology products for consumer healthcare sectors.
The latest product by Criador Labs is EVE Health, a smart water bottle designed to improve medication adherence amongst patients with chronic diseases. It helps patients to stay aware of their dosages and reminds them when it's time to take their medication. The bottle holds a patent-pending technology with sensors tracking medication intake and a Wi-Fi chipset sending live data to the servers. The data is analyzed and custom notifications and reports are sent to caretakers, hospitals, and insurance companies for taking appropriate actions.
21. Green Cure Wellness
Green Cure Wellness is one of the leading health startups in India founded by Sanchit Garg in 2015. Green Cure Wellness manufactures herbal personal care and health care products of international quality. It has a team of scientists in Germany who develop high-quality formulations adherent to the European norms.
Germany is the world’s leading technology hub for herbal and natural products. Green Cure leverages the age-old wisdom of Ayurveda coupled with German expertise to manufacture products that are free from side effects.
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Conclusion
Health is imperative for success in all aspects of life. The concept of startups is trending today and trends tend to change the world. So healthcare startups, without any doubt, are a significant game-changer.
FAQs
How many healthcare startups are there in India?
There are nearly 5,295 health tech startups in India.
What are health tech startups?
Health tech startups are startups that have an online platform to provide healthcare solutions such as healthcare products, medicines and diagnostic tests.
Source :- https://startuptalky.com/ Author :- Vidhi Punamiya Date :-March 19, 2022 at 11:00AM