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Experts Spotlight: Let's Validate Chapter 10
- Srikant Subudhi — COO, Aster DM Healthcare (Whitefield): Hospitals Have Problems Too. Build for Those.
- Dr. Amrut Sadashiv Kadam — Sr. Radiation Oncologist, Victoria Hospital: Four Things I Look for Before I Say Yes to a Startup.
- Aravind Ganesan — CTO, Kauvery Hospital: Build for the Doctor First. Everything Else Follows.
- Madhur Gopal — VP Marketing, Manipal Hospitals (MHEL): Stop Pitching to Hospitals Like a Customer. Start Thinking Like One.
Latest stories
- MakeO (Toothsi) Raises ₹90 Crore to Conquer Dental Tech Across India and Southeast Asia
- Serum Institute's CERVAVAC Earns WHO Prequalification — Unlocks Global UN Procurement
- IRDAI's 'Recalibrating Economics of Insurance Distribution' Consultation Paper Wiped Rs 1.58 Lakh Crore From Financial Stocks in One Day — Health Insurance Commissions Face a 15% Cap
- Telix Pharmaceuticals Is Acquiring ITM Isotope Technologies Munich for $1.65 Billion — Analysts Call It 'Supercritical' for the Radioligand Therapy Supply Chain
- Novo Nordisk Has Bought Three Early-Stage Obesity Drug Programmes From Kallyope — A First-in-Class Peptide Plus Two Small Molecules That Go Beyond GLP-1
- India's Femtech Sector Has Raised Over Rs 550 Crore in 2026 Alone — Nua, Pee Safe, and Healthfab Define a Maturing Category That Is Finally Getting the Capital It Deserves
- TRUE ARTIS Raises Rs 11.4 Crore in Seed Funding to Scale India's First Integrated Aesthetic Healthcare and Surgical Platform Across Delhi NCR
- Nua Raises $50 Million in Series C Led by Peak XV and Filter Capital — India's Leading Women's Wellness Brand Has Grown Its Revenue 5x to Rs 500 Crore in Two Years While Staying Profitable
- The Investors Behind India's Healthcare Innovation — Meet the 10 VC and PE Firms Funding the Founders Who Are Building a Healthier India
- Sun Pharma's $11.75 Billion Organon Acquisition Gets Moody's Baa1 and S&P BBB+ Investment-Grade Ratings — And the Company Settled Its US Antitrust Case This Week
- Pune's Immunoscript Life Science Has Secured $8.9 Million From CEPI to Develop a Freezer-Free RNA Vaccine — India's Answer to the Cold Chain Problem That Leaves Half the World Unvaccinated
- Cyrix Healthcare Has Acquired Blue Star E&E's MedTech Solutions Business — India's Largest Medical Equipment Services Company Adds 250-Plus CT and MRI Installations
- Sanofi Signs a Letter of Intent With Tricog Health for AI-Enabled Cardiac Diagnostics — Global Pharma Meets India's Leading Cardiac AI Platform
- Ultrahuman Raises $70 Million Led by Qualcomm Ventures — India's Bengaluru Smart Ring Company Is Becoming a Human-Computer Interface Platform
- W Health Ventures Closes Fund II at Rs 700 Crore — India's First Healthcare Venture Studio Is Now Building 8-10 New Companies From Scratch, Not Writing Cheques to Existing Startups
- DocPharma Raises $2 Million Pre-Series A — Bengaluru's Prescription-Compliant Healthcare Quick-Commerce Infrastructure Company Is Building the Backend That Medicine Delivery Platforms Are Missing
- Cohance Lifesciences Is Investing $18 Million in NJ Bio and Aruka Bio to Build India's Most Integrated ADC CRDMO Platform
- RPG Active Pharma Has Acquired Raghava Life Sciences' API Business for Rs 135 Crore — India's API Sector Consolidation Gets a Buy-and-Build Playbook
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah Inaugurates the New 400-Bed Tower at Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital, Saket — Delhi Now Has Its Largest Private Hospital at 1,200 Beds
- Aragen Life Sciences Has Filed Its DRHP With SEBI — India's Largest CRDMO by Solutions Offered Is Going Public With a Rs 3,500 Crore IPO
- Park Medi World Is Investing Rs 200 Crore to Build a 550-Bed Hospital in Prayagraj — UP's Healthcare Infrastructure Gets Another Private Sector Commitment
- ENTOD Pharmaceuticals Announces Project AXIOM — India's Eye Care Leader Launches an Investigational Myopia Drug Programme Beyond Low-Dose Atropine
- Remidio Has Been Granted a US Patent for Wearable 3D Eye Imaging — Five Eye Exams in One Device, No Dilation Needed, and a New Chapter for Oculomics
- Hearzap Has Completed Its Acquisition of Amplifon India — India's Largest Organised Hearing Healthcare Network Now Has 420 Centres and Rs 230 Crore in Combined Revenue
- Tamil Nadu CM Vijay Inaugurates the World's First Pinhole Pupilloplasty Centre at Dr Agarwals Eye Hospital, Chennai — A Made-in-India Surgical Innovation Now Has a Dedicated Global Centre
- Even Healthcare Raised $20 Million Extended Series A — Bengaluru's Managed Care Subscription Platform Is Building India's First Vertically Integrated Hospital Network
- Tross Raises Pre-Seed Funding — An Indian Startup Building the API Layer That Lets Healthcare AI Companies Connect to US EHRs, Payer Portals, and Legacy Health Systems
- Peeko Raises Rs 67.4 Crore Series A From Chiratae Ventures — Bengaluru's Babycare Quick Commerce Platform Hits a Milestone Round
- Apollo Hospitals Is Building India's First Electric Air Ambulance Network — Emergency Care and Medical Drone Delivery for Remote India
- Apollo Hospitals Launches 'Always Open. Always Here.' — Routine and Planned Healthcare Services Now Available Every Day Including Sundays at All Apollo Hospitals
- Invesco Has Launched India's Newest Healthcare Equity Fund — NFO Open Until September 1, Covering Pharma, Hospitals, Diagnostics, CDMOs, CROs, Medical Devices, and Insurance
- Butterfly Learnings Raises Rs 65 Crore — India's First Full-Stack Paediatric Neurodevelopmental Platform Is Now Scaling Its Autism Screening to Every Paediatrician in India
- Lissun Raises Rs 48 Crore and Launches Ray AI — an AI Parenting Co-Pilot on WhatsApp for India's Families Navigating Child Developmental Delays
- Piramal Pharma Has Taken Majority Control of Yapan Bio for Rs 76 Crore — A Hyderabad Vaccine and Biologics CDMO Is Now a Piramal Subsidiary
- Manipal Health Is Acquiring Kinder Women's Hospital in Bengaluru's Whitefield for Rs 130 Crore — Strengthening Its Women's Health Presence in the City's Fastest-Growing Corridor
- BJP MP Raghav Chadha Tells Rajya Sabha That Referral Commissions Are Inflating Indian Medical Bills by 15-20% — A Systemic Governance Problem Needs a Systemic Fix
- 70% of Ayushman Bharat's Pending Hospital Claims — ₹5,944 Crore — Are Stuck in Courts, Parliamentary Committee Finds
- Narayana Health Q1 FY27: Revenue Surges 78% to ₹2,684 Crore — India Hospitals Soar While Insurance Losses Cloud the Picture
- PM Modi at the Red Fort: Indian Pharma Companies Must Enter the Global Top 5 — Pharmacy of the World to Innovation Hub on 80th Independence Day
- Max Healthcare Q1 FY27: Revenue ₹2,982 Crore, International Patients +18%, Board Approves Foray Into Medical Education
- Biophore India Is Acquiring an FDA-Approved Sterile Injectable Facility in Indore — A Strategic Manufacturing Asset in India's Emerging Sterile Injectables Hub
- Lilavati Hospital Is Taking Indian Healthcare to Kazakhstan — A Super-Speciality OPD in Central Asia Is India's Medical Tourism Going North
- Redcliffe Labs Has Acquired Megavision Diagnostics in Pune for ~₹40 Crore — Building the Integrated Pathology-Plus-Imaging Diagnostics Network Its ₹700 Crore FY27 Target Requires
- Amneal Pharmaceuticals Has Completed Its Kashiv BioSciences Acquisition — Creating the Fully Integrated Global Biosimilar Leader the Patel Brothers Have Been Building
- Varicose Veins Aren't Just Cosmetic — Inside the Bengaluru Hospital Treating Them Like the Circulatory Problem They Actually Are — Most people treat varicose veins as cosmetic. Avis Vascular Centre in Rajajinagar treats them as circulatory disease — with same-day RFA,…
- Apollo Hospitals Q1 FY27 Results Are Out Today — HealthCo Breakeven, International Patient Recovery, and India's Largest Hospital Chain Under the Analyst Microscope
- J&J MedTech's DePuy Synthes Is Expanding Its Bengaluru Technology Centre Into a Full Global Capability Centre — Orthopaedic Surgical Technology, Built in India for the World
- Tamil Nadu Is Investing ₹23,357 Crore in Healthcare for 2026-27 — With a Strong Focus on Digital Health and Specialist Care Access
- KKR Is Spending ₹13,188 Crore to Acquire Medicover India — And Half of India's Leading Hospital Chains Are Now Owned by Global Private Equity
- Telangana Life Sciences, BITS Pilani, and RMIT University Australia Are Launching a PhD Programme Together — India's Pharma Cluster Gets an Industry-Integrated Research Talent Pipeline
- Healthium Medtech Has a New CEO — Gaurav Goel Takes Charge of One of India's Most Globally Distributed Medical Device Companies
- Enzene Has Launched NeX™ — a Turnkey Biologics Manufacturing Model That Lets Governments and Institutions Build World-Class Biopharma Capability Without the Conventional Capex
- Piramal Pharma Solutions Has Added a Spray Drying Suite to Its Peptide API Facility — The Capability That Converts Peptides Into Inhalable and Oral Solid Dosage Forms
- Gland Pharma and Neuland Laboratories Have Just Signed a Long-Term Strategic CDMO Partnership — A Dedicated Sterile Suite in Visakhapatnam for Microparticle Depot APIs
- RPG Life Sciences Is Investing Rs 700 Crore to Separate Its API Business Into a Wholly Owned Subsidiary — A Strategic Restructuring With Significant Commercial Intent
- TheraNym Biologics Is India's Largest Dedicated Biologics CMO — Aurobindo's Hyderabad Facility Is Now Open, With MSD as Anchor Customer and $175M Unit 2 Already Planned
- Piramal Pharma Solutions Has Partnered With Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services for ADC Manufacturing — India's CDMO Antibody-Drug Conjugate Capability Gets a Major Upgrade
- Sun Pharma Q1 FY27: Revenue ₹15,300 Crore, Profit Up 27% — India Business at 16%, Innovative Medicines at 12.8%, and Organon on Track for Q4
- Roche Is Building a Global Digital Hub in Hyderabad — A Commitment to India's Tech Ecosystem at the Highest Institutional Level
- AstraZeneca Has Just Received India's Third Enhertu CDSCO Approval in 12 Months — Now for Neoadjuvant Early-Stage HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Before Surgery