| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.03.2026 | Cent Leads AI Health Revolution: Early Disease Detection Secures Major Funding | Cent, a new healthtech startup, secures funding for its AI-driven early disease detection platform. Co-founded by Practo's Shashank ND, Cent targets critical conditions like cancer, cardiac, and metabolic diseases. It identifies these often... |
| 11.03.2026 | Practo Appoints Ex-Union Health Secretary CK Mishra As Independent Director | SUMMARY
IPO-bound Practo has appointed former union health secretary CK Mishra to its board as an independent director
Mishra is a retired IAS officer with nearly 38 years of administrative experience
The appointment comes at a time when th... |
| 10.03.2026 | Healthtech startup Cent raised undisclosed funding from OneFlow, South Park Commons | OneFlow Holdings and South Park Commons have contributed an undisclosed sum of money to the healthtech startup Cent.
Cent, which was founded by Practo founder Shashank ND, Arpit Garg (formerly of Lenskart), and Anshul Khandelwal (formerly o... |
| 10.03.2026 | Agritech startup Verdant Impact raises $3M in seed round | Agritech startup Verdant Impact has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Unicorn India Ventures. The round also saw participation from Infynyte Club, Yash Kotak, Alok Soni, and a-IDEA NAARM.
The funds will be used to expand Verdant's te... |
| 06.03.2026 | Practo founder's health startup Cent raises funding from OneFlow, South Park Commons | Synopsis
Healthtech startup Cent, founded by Practo founder Shashank ND along with Arpit Garg (formerly at Lenskart) and Anshul Khandelwal (ex-Ola Electric), has raised an undisclosed sum from OneFlow Holdings, the family office of Shashank... |
| 06.03.2026 | Practo Cofounder Launches Healthtech Startup ‘Cent’, Raises $5 Mn | SUMMARY
Cent is a D2C preventive healthcare intelligence platform that aims to detect life threatening diseases before symptoms appear
It will start rolling out centres in Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru from next month, with additional expansi... |
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| 23.02.2026 | Exclusive: Practo In Talks To Raise $100 Mn In Pre-IPO Round | SUMMARY
Practo is in advanced discussions to raise $100 Mn to $125 Mn in a pre-IPO round, which will be a mix of equity and debt
The round, which will be led by a global PE firm, will take Practo’s post-money valuation to $700 Mn
The health... |
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| 25.06.2025 | MyGate Elevates Rohit Jindal To Cofounder | SUMMARY
Cofounder Abhishek Kumar announced the promotion in a LinkedIn post.
Prior to joining Mygate, he held leadership positions at Practo, HSBC, and Citibank India
He served as a business leader at Practo between 2015 and 2017, sales lea... |
| 28.05.2025 | Global expansion can't come at the expense of India biz : Practo’s Shashank N.D. | - |
| 28.05.2025 | Practo aims to double international revenue in 3 years, says CEO | Shashank ND, founder and CEO, Practo
Practo, an Indian healthcare services platform connecting doctors and patients, wants to double its revenue from international business in the next three years as it expands into developed markets, a top... |
| 18.02.2025 | Practo Picks Jagnoor Singh As COO To Drive Growth, Explore New Markets | SUMMARY
Practo appoints Jagnoor Singh as COO to boost operations and drive growth
Singh has over 16 years of experience in companies like Airtel, OYO, and Unacademy
Singh will work on go-to-market strategies that would help deepen market pe... |
| 09.01.2025 | Tencent-backed Practo misses FY24 revenue target, trims EBITDA loss | Shashank ND, founder and CEO, Practo
Healthtech company Practo said Thursday it managed to slash its loss before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization for the year through March 2024 and achieved an adjusted EBITDA profit in the fo... |
| 03.10.2024 | With AI Healthcare Play On Card, Practo Makes Two Appointments To Its Board | SUMMARY
Practo appoints TVG Krishnamurthy and Alexander Kuruvilla to its board, strengthening its leadership for AI-driven healthcare initiatives
The new board members bring extensive experience in corporate governance, technology, and heal... |
| 09.08.2024 | Digital healthcare startup Karma Primary Healthcare raised $1.3 M Series A funding | A Series A funding round led by UBS Optimus Foundation, with participation from 1Crowd and other investors, has seen digital healthcare startup Karma Primary Healthcare secure Rs 11 crore (about $1.3 million).
Previously, Ennovent, Ankur Ca... |
| 29.07.2024 | Healthtech Bharosa announced India’s first dedicated patient experience platform launch | Gurgaon, July 29, 2024—Bharosa, a health tech company based in Gurgaon, announces the launch of India’s first dedicated patient experience platform. This initiative addresses the issue of big tech neglect and provides patients with a safe s... |
| 14.06.2024 | Practo Claims Adjusted EBITDA Profitability In Q4 FY24, Revenue Grows 22% In FY24 | SUMMARY
Practo reported an adjusted EBITDA loss of INR 17 Cr FY24 as against INR 162 Cr in the previous year
The healthtech startup said it saw a “significant growth” in Tier-2, 3 markets and registered a revenue growth of 50%, while Tier-1... |
| 04.06.2024 | Easing the stress with new-age health solutions With rapid scaling and idea-making seen in the Indian eco-system, it is only speculated that the now-easily accessible healthcare systems will try to re... | - |
| 15.05.2024 | Confused About OPD Coverage? Your Guide to Health Insurance Explained | Share
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| 30.04.2024 | PharmEasy raises $216m in round led by Ranjan Pai's MEMG: Report | Indian online pharmacy platform PharmEasy has raised Rs 1,804 crore ($216 million) in a round led by Ranjan Pai’s Manipal Education and Medical Group (MEMG) and existing investors, Entrackr reported.
MEMG led the round with Rs 800 crore, wh... |
| 22.04.2024 | inDrive appoints Pratip Mazumder as country manager for India | inDrive, a mobility services platform, appoints Pratip Mazumder as Country Manager for inDrive India. He would be looking after all business verticals and will be overseeing local government and public relations, partnerships, and inVision ... |
| 08.03.2024 | On fitness track: More women prioritise physical health, shows data | A rising tide of women is taking charge of their well-being, prioritising self-care and prefer spending on preventive health checkup packages, according to data into consultation trends from leading healthcare platforms.
Practo, an integrat... |
| 11.03.2021 | High-Stakes: Matrix Partners India | High-stakes is a unique series that focuses on dissecting the investments of venture capital and private equity firms to gain insights about the portfolio of companies they’ve invested in, industries they focus on, and their investment proc... |
| 12.11.2019 | A Dubai startup that helps patients book doc appointments online raises $2.5M | In a blog post, the CEO of the company – Haris Afghadi – wrote that the startup founded in 2016 has filters through which people can find the doctor best suited for their needs and help to book an appointment with that person. Aside from a ... |
| 17.05.2018 | Exclusive: After Dubai, Oyo kicks-off operations in China | SoftBank-backed hotel brand Oyo has launched operations in China. This is the fourth overseas market for the company. Last month, it entered Dubai while the company has presence in Malaysia and Nepal.
Currently, it’s showing seven propertie... |
| 18.01.2017 | Practo picks up $55 million to expand further into healthcare | Health tech provider Practo announced it has raised $55 million in a Series D round led by Tencent, bringing its total funding to date to $179 million. The Indian player, which at the moment provides tech solutions to book appointments, ord... |
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| 18.01.2017 | Practo raises $55 million from China’s Tencent, existing investors | Practo plans to enter the health insurance segment through partnerships with existing businesses, said its co-founder Shashank N.D. Photo: Jagadeesh NV/Mint Practo raises $55 million from China’s Tencent, existing investors 2 min read . Upd... |
| 17.01.2017 | India: Practo raises $55m in Series D funding led by China’s Tencent | Premium
Digital healthcare start-up Practo Technologies Pvt Ltd has raised $55 million in a Series-D funding round led by China’s Tencent, with participation from new investors ru-Net, RSI Fund, owned by Recruit Holdings and Thrive Capital.... |
| 17.01.2017 | Practo Raises $55M in Series D Funding | Practo, an Indian company providing a platform to find healthcare providers and book appointments, raised $55M in Series D funding.
The round was led by Tencent Holdings, with participation from ru-net, RSI Fund (owned by Recruit Holdings),... |
| 17.01.2017 | Practo raises $55M to expand digital healthcare platform, practice management software internationally | Bangalore, India-based startup Practo, which offers an app and web-based platform for people to access healthcare information and locate doctors, has raised $55 million in Series D funding in a round led by returning investor Tencent. Thriv... |
| 16.01.2017 | India’s Practo raises $55M to expand its healthcare platform to more emerging markets | India-based Practo, a startup that helps consumers locate doctors and healthcare information, has closed a $55 million Series D funding round that will fuel an expansion into more emerging markets worldwide.
The investment is led by Tencent... |
| 20.04.2016 | 1mg gets $16 million Series B to make India’s health industry more transparent | India’s pharmaceutical market is filled with generic options—but they don’t always save consumers money. In fact, some drugs are even more expensive than their branded counterparts. Created to give patients more power over their health cost... |
| 06.04.2016 | Twitter, India’s Practo team to offer free medical advice | Practo, which MedCity News has described as “part clinical management platform and part doctor search/appointment maker,” is launching its service Wednesday, a day ahead of the global event. This year, the World Health Organization is empha... |
| 21.03.2016 | Google Capital invests in Girnar Software, owner of Indian auto portal CarDekho.com | Girnar Software, which runs several auto portals in India including CarDekho.com, has raised an undisclosed amount of new funding from Google Capital, with participation from returning investor Hillhouse Capital.
This is the fourth Indian s... |
| 17.03.2016 | Startup indiana de saúde inicia operação no Brasil | Uma das maiores plataformas de cuidados de saúde do mundo, começa hoje, 17 de março, a operar no Brasil. A Practo iniciará suas operações em São Paulo com dois de seus produtos premiados – Practo Search e Practo Ray. As ferramentas estarão ... |
| 26.12.2015 | These digital health deals in 2015 illustrate how the patient experience is evolving | ZocDoc raised one of the largest funding rounds this year at $130 million. The move is to support an expansion beyond its flagship appointment booking services and will focus on improving the patient experience. Making appointment booking e... |
| 16.11.2015 | India-based booking service Practo joins forces with Uber | The app will inform users how much the estimated fare is and how long it will take Uber to arrive. It will also include the destination address at the start of the trip.
It’s an interesting development because lack of transportation can hin... |
| 29.10.2015 | 10 Indian Digital Health Startups to Watch
by Komal Garewal | India’s digital health startups are joining the table with a tried & trusted strategy – bridging the gap between providers and end-users. But these particular startups certainly face a unique set of challenges as the country embraces in... |
| 19.09.2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 9/19/15 | Altice agreed to acquire Cablevision; News. Corp bought Unruly; Ericsson purchased Envivio
News. Corp acquired social video advertising platform Unruly. The expected purchase price for the acquisition is as high as £114 million, or $176 mil... |
| 14.09.2015 | China-based medical app maker Quyi raises $40M; Practo acquires Insta Health | Two important, but unrelated, international digital health transactions made headlines in the past week: China-based Quyi, which develops medical apps, raised $40 million, and India-based Practo, which offers a practice management tool and ... |
| 14.09.2015 | Doctor Search Portal Practo Buys Hospital Management Platform Insta Health For $12M | Doctor search platform Practo, which recently closed a $90 million Series C round led by China’s Tencent, is broadening its focus on catering to hospitals after buying up healthcare management firm Insta Health in a $12 million deal.
India-... |
| 10.08.2015 | Сделки недели: Новости российского венчурного рынка с 3 по 9 августа Статьи редакции | Еженедельная подборка новостей о российском венчурном рынке за прошедшие семь дней.
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Фонд «Сколково» запустил новую систему грантовой поддержки. Помимо больших грантов (300 млн рублей) и минигрантов (5 млн рублей) фонд теперь будет... |
| 07.08.2015 | Practo raises $90M from China’s Tencent, Sofina, Google Capital, Yuri Milner & others | Practo Technologies Pvt Ltd, a web-based clinic management software developer and medicare listings provider, has raised $90 million in Series C funding led by Chinese media and technology conglomerate Tencent Holdings Pvt Ltd.
Marquee inst... |
| 06.08.2015 | Practo raises $90M to expand footprint of practice management IT and scheduling business | So product development is another area where it is allocating funds. In the statement it said it is developing an app designed to help people make better health decisions.
Practo noted it would expand its product lines over the next three t... |
| 06.08.2015 | Practo Raises $90M Series C Funding | Practo, an Indian doctor search engine, raised $90M in Series C funding.
Backers included Yury Milner, Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners India, Sofina, Tencent, Google Capital, and Altimeter Capital.
The company intends to use the funds to e... |
| 06.08.2015 | Indian Health Search Portal Practo Lands $90M Led By Tencent For Global Expansion | Chinese Internet giant Tencent is getting its tentacles into India’s healthcare space after it led a $90 million Series C round for medical search startup Practo. The startup raised $30 million in February, and it confirmed that Google Capi... |
| 06.08.2015 | Healthcare startup Practo raises $90 million from investors | The funding juggernaut for Indian startups rolls on. This time, though, it is not your usual e-commerce outfit that has raised money. Practo, a healthcare platform, has raised $90 million from a bunch of investors, according to a statement ... |
| 06.08.2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 6, 2015 | Practo snagged $90M: SavingGlobal bagged $21.8M; TreeHouse raised $16M
Green Blender, a New York City-based startup that delivers pre-portioned ingredients and superfoods to make organic smoothies at home, secured nearly $1 million in seed ... |
| 09.07.2015 | Lybrate Lands $10.2M To Widen Access To Doctors And Healthcare Information In India | It’s proving to be a busy week for big-hitting VC firm Tiger Global in India. It led a $100 million investment in music streaming service Saavn, put up media startup News In Shorts’ $20 million Series B raise, and today it led a $10.2 milli... |
| 13.02.2015 | International growth a priority for physician search and scheduling provider in $30M fundraise | In emailed responses to questions, Practo founder and CEO Shashank ND said it’s also open to acquiring companies that have a complementary product and share their vision.
Its search engine algorithm bases results on location and specialty. ... |
| 13.02.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 2/13/15 | AppDirect, Pursuit, Jet, WedPics, Laurel & Wolf, Sigfox, Soothe, Reserve, TrueFacet, Capital Float
Seed Stage
Pursuit Vascular, the maker of a preventive medical device for catheter-related bloodstream infections, raised $1.6 million in... |
| 12.02.2015 | Doctor Search Site Practo Lands $30M For Aggressive Growth In India And Overseas | Practo, an Indian startup that provides a search portal matching doctors with patients and other digital services for practices, has closed a $30 million Series B round to expand its services in India and other emerging markets.
The funding... |
| 12.02.2015 | Practo raises $30M in Series B from Sequoia, Matrix Partners | Practo Technologies Pvt Ltd, a web-based clinic management software developer which derives a major portion of its business from primary clinics, has raised $30 million (Rs 187 crore) in its second institutional round of funding led by Sequ... |
| 12.02.2015 | Practo Announces Expansion to 35 Cities in India & Several New Countries | Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Practo, the #1 doctor search engine in Asia, today announced it’s expansion plans to 35 Indian cities and 6+ international locations by March 2016. Practo is already present in India, Singapore & Phillipines ... |
| 12.02.2015 | Practo Closes $30M Series B Funding | Practo, an Indian provider of a platform for patients to find doctors and doctors to manage their practice, closed a $30m series B funding.
Backers included Sequoia Capital and Matrix Partners.
The company intends to use the funds to expand... |
| 24.02.2014 | HackerEarth Raises $500K To Help Startups Find Great Programmers | HackerEarth, a Bangalore-based startup that helps other startups hire programmers through technical challenges, has raised $500,000 in seed funding from Angelprime incubator.
Launched in late 2012 by former Google engineer Sachin Gupta and ... |
| 30.07.2012 | Sequoia Capital invests $4.6M in online clinic management platform Practo | Bangalore-based Practo Technologies Pvt Ltd, a web-based clinic management software developer, has raised Rs 25 crore (around $4.6 million) from Sequoia Capital in a Series A round of funding. Practo’s flagship product is Practo Ray, a web-... |
| - | Startup indiana de saúde inicia operação no Brasil | Uma das maiores plataformas de cuidados de saúde do mundo, começa hoje, 17 de março, a operar no Brasil. A Practo iniciará suas operações em São Paulo com dois de seus produtos premiados – Practo Search e Practo Ray. As ferramentas estarão ... |
| - | Юрий Мильнер инвестировал в индийский медсервис Practo | Помимо Tencent и Мильнера, в раунде приняли участие венчурные фонды Google Capital, Sofina, Altimeter, Sequoia и Matrix, пишет TechCrunch. Ранее компания привлекла $30 млн в раунде B, а всего проекту удалось привлечь $124 млн.
Офис Practo р... |
| - | Practo Raises $55 Mn Series D Led By Tencent; Looks To Expand International Operations | Bengaluru-based online healthcare platform Practo has raised $55 Mn Series D funding in a round led by Tencent.
With this, three new investors have joined Practo – ru-Net, RSI Fund (owned by Recruit Holdings), and Thrive Capital. Other exis... |
| - | Practo raises $90M to expand footprint of practice management IT and scheduling business | An India-based health IT company Practo has raised a $90 million Series C round led by Chinese investment firm Tencent, according to a company statement.
The company — part clinical management platform and part doctor search/appointment mak... |
| - | Exclusive: Practo Raises INR 120 Cr From Trifecta Capital, Internal Investors | Bengaluru-based healthtech platform Practo has raised INR 120 Cr ($17.2 Mn) from Trifecta Capital and other internal investors. The company confirmed to Inc42 the funding amount and added that this is part of an internal round.
According to... |
| - | These digital health deals in 2015 illustrate how the patient experience is evolving | It was a banner year for digital health startups for the patient experience. An end-of-year roundup report from StartUp Health counted 111 deals in this digital health subsector. They collectively raised $1.3 billion and had an average size... |
| - | India-based booking service Practo joins forces with Uber | Uber gets name dropped so often in healthcare, it’s probably inevitable that companies would seek to partner with the car service. Practo, a digital health company that developed a booking service app for people to use for healthcare appoin... |
| - | Twitter, India’s Practo team to offer free medical advice | Thursday is World Health Day, and an Indian digital health company is trying something radical: offering free medical advice via Twitter and the Web.
While this concept could never fly in the U.S. — we have pesky little things like HIPAA an... |
| - | International growth a priority for physician search and scheduling provider in $30M fundraise | Of all the services from the hospitality industry that are seeping into healthcare, online physician search and scheduling tools have probably been the most popular and widely embraced. The number of companies offering this service are legi... |
| - | Practo raises $30 Mn from Sequoia Capital and Matrix Partners | Practo, currently the largest doctor search engine in Asia has raised $30 Mn funding in fresh round of funding from Sequoia Capital and Matrix Partners. This is its second institutional fund raise.
The investment is been regarded as one of ... |
| - | A Dubai startup that helps patients book doc appointments online raises $2.5M | Meddy, a startup based in Dubai, one of the emirates of the United Arab Emirates, recently completed a $2.5 million Series A funding round to support its online doctor appointment booking platform.
The money comes from New York City-based M... |
| - | Неприметный Индийский слон | Индия сейчас переживает "венчурный бум”. Улицы исторической части города с малоэтажными зданиями усыпаны IT-стартапами, 42 из которых только в 2021 году стали юникорнами. Почему венчурная Индия быстро, как ракета, стартовала к звездам?... |
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| - | GHV Takes Startup India Campaign To Next Level | Image Source
The government’s recently launched “Startup India” campaign is all set to fuel the startup revolution in the country. In order to take the campaign a step further and put things into action, Green House Ventures (GHV) Accelerat... |
