Healthians

Healthians had raised seed funding from Healthstart in 2015. In the same year cricketer Yuvraj Singh’s venture capital firm YouWeCan was the next investor in Healthians.^[13] In the year 2016 Japanese VC fund BeeNext invested in the firm through series A round of funding. In November 2019 Healthian had raised funds up to $14 mn through series B funding where $12 million were raised from Japan-based DG Incubation and DG Daiwa Ventures.^[14] Apart from this Beenos Partners, Mistetoe, Trifecta Capital, HealthStart have also invested in Healthians. Asuka Holdings and Kotak Private Equity have also invested in the firm.^[4] The firm’s total funding stands at $22.8 million.^[15] In 2022 the Healthians announced it will raise another $54 mn in a funding led by WestBridge Capital.^[16]

A complaint was filed by Dr. Rohit Jain that an online health service provider (Healthians) was allegedly allowed to collect samples of COVID-19 patients without proper license. On 26 October, Gurugram Police filed an affidavit with Delhi High Court that "Healthians never performed any COVID-19 test till April 15, 2021, and was only involved in sample collection under MoU with NABL and ICMR approved COVID-19 labs. It has registration certificate under Clinical Establishment Act, 2010."^[17]