Dear Reader, In India the Healthcare sector has made good progress in the past decade but still faces numerous challenges in providing affordable and quality services to our large population. This sector offers tremendous opportunities for the start-ups to come up with innovative solutions to these challenges. In this edition we are glad to bring […]
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Healthcare Sector In India
Viren Mehta- Founder at Kripa Surgicals and Elite Healthcare – Channel Partner for Covidien ( Medtronic), BARD, Abbott Vascular, Lifetech and Bauch & LombIndia is the 4th largest medical device market in Asia after Japan, China and South Korea. In fact, the Indian healthcare segment has become one of the India’s largest sector both in terms of revenue and employment. It is estimated that India will need more than 2 million doctors by 2030 in order to achieve the doctor to population ratio of 1:1000.
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5C Network
Kalyan Sivasailam-CEO5C Network is India’s First Diagnostics Network.The start-up makes radio diagnosis more accessible, affordable and accurate through a platform indigenously developed by it.
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Nexconnect Ventures Private Limited
Arina Bardhan-Director (Founding Member)NexConnect Ventures Private limited is a start-up incubated under the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Innovation Park. It is a social start-up that seeks to empower communities by connecting them with simple technologies to bridge the rural-urban divide. The company comprises of a blend of social science researchers and computer scientists who have come together to bring about a change in how people perceive knowledge dissemination and exchange.
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IIM Calcutta Innovation Park (IIMCIP) in association with the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, launched the North East Accelerator Program (NEAP) to create a supportive eco-system for the entrepreneurs in North-East with Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) and Ennovent as partners of the initiative.
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