We all experience defining moments and events that shape the course of our lives and the direction of our careers. For Sanjay Vinayak, founder of Bangalore-based Connect and Heal, that defining moment was his father’s battle with cancer. His father saw many quality specialists and spent months trying to get the correct diagnosis. This was his first-hand experience of this country’s broken healthcare system. Ultimately, it was the primary care physician who stood by the family who guided them through the complexities of the system and helped them in times of crisis. was established in With the support of your family doctor, you can deliver connected care wherever you are.
Connect and Heal is an integrated health tech company that provides end-to-end coordinated care. The company provides 360-degree health assurance through a multidisciplinary in-house team of over 800 physicians supported by a preferred network of hospitals, specialty clinics, over 3,500 diagnostic centers and pharmacies in over 60 cities across India. We provide care support. “We are uniquely positioned to coordinate health plans across all outpatient (OPD), inpatient (IPD) and emergency response (ER) requirements of our users, integrated with a health-first focus. We have a great ecosystem,” he adds Vinayak. “We have India’s largest network of over 4,000 ambulances and his 2 million subscriber base across the country.”
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With more than 1 million transactions per year for phone consultations and lab tests alone, the health tech company has emerged as the ‘first port of call’ for all major and urgent medical needs for the whole family. claims the founder. “We provide an integrated, technology-enabled approach to delivering face-to-face care anytime, anywhere, ensuring continuity of care.”
Connect and Heal is focused on building a more patient-centric ecosystem where various healthcare service providers focus on an outcome-based approach. To achieve this, over the last six years they have worked diligently towards standardizing clinical care.
Besides Vinayak, Connect and Heal co-founders are Elwinder Singh, Galveender Kaur and Prashant Kashyap. The company has grown 100% year-on-year and so far he has raised $11 million from BAce Capital, Celesta Capital and a group of prominent bankers in London, Singapore, Holland and the United States. increase. The company aims to use these funds to expand its footprint across the country.
on solid ground
Plans to reach $100 million in revenue by FY25
We have onboarded 50 people for technical support and plan to hire another 100 people in engineering, product and design in the coming months.
Largest network of over 6000 ambulances
2 million subscriber base across India
120,000 transactions per month
Connect and Heal uses technology as its backbone to understand patient needs and deliver customized solutions. “For example, if a patient is comfortable speaking their native language, we can find a doctor who speaks the same language within 60 seconds. helps find doctors, pharmacies, laboratories and other requirements,” says Vinayak. The company is also committed to adopting technologies such as AL and ML that are used for predictive analysis of patient health needs.
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