Solving prior authorization delays in cancer care using AI agents. "At a leading US cancer center, BOSS (RISA's platform) has reduced prior authorization times from 30 minutes to under five. In just a few months, it processed over $1 million in medications, freed up 80 percent of staff time, and cut administrative costs by 66 percent." $3.5M seed round. Other investors in the round: z21 Ventures, ODD BIRD VC, Ashish Gupta. Founders Kshitij, Rishabh and Kumar were at IIT Kanpur together and co-founded urbanhealth.ai - a self care AI coach funded by 3one4 and Venture Highway, amongst others.

AI-integrated medical device for early disease detection - scans a person's health in 60 seconds without the need for a doctor. 700 biomarkers are monitored with patents in India (US pending). ₹6.6CR (~$770K) seed round. Other investors in the round: Sanchi Connect. Both founders are engineers: Saniya started almost straight out of the Symbiosis University of Applied Sciences; Lokant out of IIM-Lucknow. (BTech at IET DAVV Indore). Comps: Prantae Solutions (IAN); Neuranics (IPV) - much more specific use cases.

Musculoskeletal (MSK) care - in centre and online. First centre in HSR - 12K sessions in 8 months. Six more centres coming up in Bangalore this year, followed by another city next year. $1M pre-seed round, including angels: Sriharsha Majety + Nandan Reddy (Swiggy), Kulin Shah (Onsurity). Founders: Rohit is from Dukaan, Bounce; Ninad from Portea, Swiggy, Pine Labs. Comps: OSSO (Blume Founders Fund, funded last week); FlexifyMe (GSF/IvyCap/Flipkart Ventures); Nivaan Care (Endiya).

Wearable device for mental health. The device sends calming signals in 10 minute sessions to the brain’s "relaxation centres", helping users reduce stress and anxiety. How does it do that? - it stimulates the vagus nerve (our longest cranial nerve that stretches from our brain to abdomen) with electrical signals. Tested on a thousand users and endorsed by 100 specialists. ₹12K+ price, pre-orders at ₹8k. ₹4.5CR (~$525K) pre-seed round. Angels in the round: Arjun Vaidya (V3), ​Sharan Hegde (finfluencer), Ritesh Agarwal (OYO)l, Aman Gupta (BoAt). The startup had earlier raised ₹2CR (~$230K) in the first tranche of this round from government bodies - SISFS, MeitY Startup Scheme, NGIS, (BIRAC). Mental health comps: many, but they're not device-centric. Founders: Siddhant ran a startup delivering keto-meals; Shalmali ran a climatetech startup.

OSSO = One Stop Solution for Orthopaedics. Omnichannel orthopaedics platform, with it's first centre in Gurgaon. $250K pre-seed round by Blume Founders Fund and angels including Sahil Jindal (DS Jindal Group), Akash Gupta (Zypp Electric), Varun Sheth / Zaheer Adenwala (Ketto), Brijraj Bhuptani (SPRY), Umesh Agarwal (Haldiram’s Family Office). Kunal was the founder of Navia Life Care (healthcare CRM), ex-Dr Reddy's, Fresenius. Avani is also a former founder with degrees in Molecular Biology. Comps: GSF/IvyCap funded FlexifyMe; Endiya funded Nivaan Care. Everyone is going omnichannel.

Digital speech therapy for stuttering and other communication disorders. Eloquent, it's first app, has resulted in a 53% reduction in stuttering severity and a 34% improvement in communication confidence. $500K pre-seed round. The founder was most recently Chief Data Scientist at DeepTek (AI in Radiology), while the CTO was also a data scientist at the same firm.

Pre-launch venture that will establish medical and surgical oncology facilities in Delhi and Mumbai, with plans for 10 cities over the next three years. Fully integrated care, with shorter wait times for treatment, mental health support, nutritional care and pain management. $10M seed round, in a JV between the renowned hospital group and a healthcare focused VC firm. 2070 Health is the venture studio arm of W Health Ventures The founding team/CXOs are undisclosed, the company has no online presence as yet.

Deeptech startup in oncology precision diagnostics. It's molecular subtyping tests provide comprehensive data to doctors to guide them in providing personalized therapy. Pre-seed round, amount undisclosed.

Aggregator for ambulances and healthcare professionals, with 650 ambulances and 25 hospital partners, operational in Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai and Pune. Also provides air ambulances, train ambulances at affordable rates, medical air cargo services and doctor visits at home. ₹1.7CR pre-seed round from existing investors. Kishore, CEO, was head of ops and business at RED.Health, a competing provider. Shaik Mehtab, the COO, is also from RED.Health.

Chain of fertility clinics, with the first location now open in Whitefield, BLR (fertility testing, consultations, egg freezing, and IVF), and scaling to 10 locations in NCR, MUM, BLR by 2027. Started as a commmunity product with 40K members currently, along with online consultations. $1M pre-seed round. Other investors in this round: Galaxy. Founders: Dipalie comes from Adobe (BLR/SF), Nidhi was with Earlsfield Capital Partners.