{"id":14155,"date":"2021-09-16T19:14:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T13:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvwnewsindia.com\/?p=14155"},"modified":"2021-09-16T19:14:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T13:44:01","slug":"healthtech-startup-ayu-health-raises-6-3m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvwnewsindia.com\/2021\/09\/16\/healthtech-startup-ayu-health-raises-6-3m\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthtech startup Ayu Health raises $6.3M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru-based Ayu Health received $6.3 million in a Series A fundraising round from Singapore-based Vertex Ventures and Bengaluru-based Stellaris Venture Partners.<\/p>\n<p>Serial entrepreneur and angel investor Ashish Gupta, Mamaearth co-founder Varun Alagh, and Rajat Goel, Founder of Gurugram-based EyeQ Super Speciality Eye Hospitals, also participated in the round.<\/p>\n<p>The cash will be used to extend the healthtech startup&#8217;s hospital network, as well as to strengthen technology, procurement, and quality management. According to a press release from Ayu Health, the company plans to grow its bed capacity to over 5,000 beds across six locations by December 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>We have partnered with Himesh, Karan and Arjit previously when they were running Zefo, and have very high regard for their capabilities. Their plan to tech-enable the $100 billion private hospital market and create India\u2019s largest branded hospital chain resonated deeply with us. With their technology-led approach, they can provide high-quality and affordable hospital care to the mass market of patients<\/em>,\u201d <strong>Ritesh Banglani, Partner at Stellaris Venture Partners,<\/strong> said in the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru-based Ayu Health received $6.3 million in a Series A fundraising round from Singapore-based Vertex Ventures and Bengaluru-based Stellaris Venture Partners. Serial entrepreneur and angel investor Ashish Gupta, Mamaearth co-founder Varun Alagh, and Rajat Goel, Founder of Gurugram-based EyeQ Super Speciality Eye Hospitals, also participated in the round. The cash will be used to extend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,47],"tags":[2287,251,1814,95,252,445,73,159,2288],"class_list":["post-14155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-trending","tag-ayu-health","tag-funding","tag-healthtech-startup","tag-media","tag-startup","tag-startup-news","tag-tvw-news","tag-tvw-news-india","tag-vertex-ventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvwnewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvwnewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvwnewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvwnewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvwnewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tvwnewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14158,"href":"https:\/\/tvwnewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14155\/revisions\/14158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvwnewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvwnewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvwnewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvwnewsindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}