Cricketer Yuvraj Singh backed online diagnostics and wellness startup, Healthians.com raised $3Million in Series A round from Beenext. Other participants in this funding round were Japanese Internet company Digital Garage and Japanese e-commerce and investment firm Beenos.
As per Crunchbase the healthcare startup raised 30K from HealthStart in August 2014 and $180K in June 2015 from YouWeCanVentures. YouWeCan Ventures is an early fund started by Yuvraj Singh in June 2015.
YouWeCan has many startups in their portfolio, such as sport 365, JetSetGo. Among these startup stars is also Intelligence Interfaces, an AI startup by Housing.com founder, Rahul Yadav. This investment was a disaster thanks to Rahul Yadav. Healthians on the other hand turned out to favour Yuvi’s investment and gives his a good option to exist if he wants to. Read Rahul Yadav to shutdown Intelligent Interfaces.
Healthinas.com was started by Deepak Sahni, Deepak Sahni, Anuj Mittal on April 7th 2014 and has 50+ employees. They are currently doing 30,000 samples per month but with this new investment, they are targeting 500,000 sample load by end of 2017.
“Diagnostics is a huge market in India and has room for many more players. Healthian’s unique model with focus on quality, cost and customer experience is highly scalable and expandable to other markets,” said Teruhide Sato, founder and managing partner, Beenext. Read more Funding News.
