Technology giant Google is deepening its engagements with startups in India and is working with a bunch of “high growth“ ventures as part of a global programme to mentor and deepen its technical engagement with the potential winners of tomorrow. Over the past year, Google has been working with In…
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Fund-raising by healthcare start-ups dips 56% to $71 m
Venture capital investment in Indian Healthcare Information Technology (HIT)/Digital Health start-ups has declined 56% year-on-year in 2016 at $71 million compared to the previous year. In 2015, as many as 33 deals were struck for an investment of $162 million. However, in 2016, the number of fun…
HealthifyMe raises $1 mn from Dubai-based NB Ventures
Mobile health and fitness start-up HealthifyMe, run by Caeruz Ventures Pvt. Ltd, said that it has received $1 million in funding from Dubai-based venture capital fund, NB Ventures. This is an additional investment to the $6 million in Series A funding that the company raised in May from IDG Ventu…
Leveraging technology to create a Healthy India
If Santa Claus were a real phenomenon, he would have to carry bags full of health and fitness apps this season. Everyone knows someone who is building an app in this context, as there are more than 150,000 health and wellness apps today. If you step back and think about how new and young this [&h…
Virat kohli starts new venture Stepathlon to tackle fitness issues affecting kids
Fitness is the next rising industry in the startup space, given the amount of investor interest they are seeing both from celebrity cricketers and well-known entrepreneurs. Cricketer Virat Kohli on June 28 kicked off a new fitness venture in a joint venture with Stepathlon Lifestyle. The venture,…
Investors eye health tech start-ups
Even as e-commerce ventures are seeing their valuations go down, healthcare-related tech start-ups are witnessing increasing interest from investors who are betting on higher returns and lower cash burn. HealthifyMe, a health and fitness mobile app, has raised series A funding of $6 million (abou…