Health-tech startup HealthPlix raises $3 mn from IDG, Kalaari in Series A

Artificial intelligence-based medical records platform HealthPlix Technologies Pvt. Ltd, has raised $3 million (around Rs 20.7 crore) in a Series A funding round from venture capital firms IDG Ventures India and Kalaari Capital, a company statement said.

The Bengaluru-based startup will utilize the funds to boosts its technology and expansion of its human resources and services in other markets, the statement added.

The software of HealthPlix assists doctors in their clinics digitally and outpatient departments of hospitals besides allowing them to give prescriptions in more than 18 languages.

“In India, 90% of care is delivered in an outpatient setting i.e. clinics and hospital OPDs. That’s our target segment. We are trying to empower doctors and hospitals digitally by eliminating the conventional pen and paper prescriptions and shift to new age EMR,” Raghuraj Sunder Raju, co-founder of HealthPlix, said in the statement.

According to the spokesperson form the company, the startup had raised $500,000 in multiple rounds from a group of angel investors, between 2015 and 2017.

Co-founded by Raju, Sandeep Gudibanda and Prasad Basavaraj in 2014, HealthPlix Technologies claims 60% of its user base is in Tier 2 and 3 towns and beyond.