CONNECTED HEALTHTEC DISRUPTOR EKA CARE RAISES $15Mn IN FUNDING

19-07-2022: Bengaluru-based connected healthtech platform Eka Care has successfully raised $15 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by Hummingbird Ventures, and saw participation from 3one4 Capital, Mirae Assets, Verlinvest, Aditya Birla Ventures, Binny Bansal, Rohit MA, and other investors.

Eka Care - founded by Vikalp Sahni and Deepak Tuli in December 2020 – is driven by the goal of empowering patients to build their health profile with an eye towards optimizing both outcomes and savings. Doctors, on their part, are able to build an advanced digital clinic management tool on the Eka platform.

The fresh financial muscle will go towards amplifying product development, hiring and raising awareness amongst consumers on the benefits of maintaining a health profile while partnering doctors in the digital transformation of their practise.

IN THE FOUNDERS’ WORDS

Vikalp Sahni, Founder and CEO of Eka Care, marked the occasion by commenting, “Our vision is to build a technology backbone to create and manage a health profile for every Indian. The trust of marquee investors in our vision has elevated our confidence. We are super excited to continue reforming the way healthcare is delivered in India by building tools for healthcare providers and users.”

Addressing media on this inflection moment of their journey, Ashish Dave, CEO, Mirae Asset Venture Investments (India) said, “Eka Care’s proprietary tech stack, which has its own medical knowledge graph, will enable patients to create digital health records from any physical or online source and enable them to access an array of digital health services leveraging the Unified Health Interface under.”

Eka Care’s most recent win confirms India’s status as among the fastest-growing destinations for healthtech investments.

*This press release is published by VOH team.*