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ekincare

Level 6, N Heights, Plot No 38, Phase 2, Siddiq Nagar, HITEC City, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, 500081, India

Overview

ekincare is a personalised, full-stack health benefits platform founded in 2015 that uses behavioural data and a patented platform to personalise employees' health benefits journeys. The company offers an integrated, cashless IPD and OPD network across 150+ cities and a highly customisable system to help employers design benefits packages for employees and their families. ekincare aims to improve benefits adoption, employee engagement, and measurable health outcomes while helping payers underwrite health risks. Its customer base includes 400+ corporates and more than one million employees, with clients ranging from Fortune 500 firms to fast-growing startups and SMEs. The company reports an industry-leading NPS of 80 and is growing at a CAGR of 150 percent. ekincare plans to use new funding to accelerate growth, simplify health benefits and insurance experiences for employers, and expand its customer base. eKincare provides a mobile app that aggregates medical history from dental, body and vision health partners and presents a user-friendly profile to identify potential health risks. The platform aims to enable early diagnosis of chronic diseases and to prompt users to take corrective actions. It features flo, an intelligent chatbot that lets users ask health queries such as “What’s my BP” or “What’s my Fasting Blood Sugar count” for themselves and family members. The company is building appointment-booking APIs to schedule services across 1,500+ diagnostic centers, health-at-home providers, health coaches and doctors. The startup is led by Kiran Kalakuntla and focuses on consolidating disparate health data into actionable insights. Financially, eKincare announced a $1.5M Series A that brings its total funding to date to $2.13M. eKincare operates a platform that consolidates an individual's medical history from healthcare providers into a single personal health record accessible on computer, smartphone or tablet. The free-for-users platform stores unlimited data, manages multiple profiles, identifies potential health risks, and provides personalised health plans. The firm monetises by earning sales commissions from partnered healthcare organisations and reports growing interest from corporates to track employee wellness metrics. eKincare claims growth of 150% quarter-on-quarter and is planning to launch a wellness index to score individual health on a 1–100 scale. The startup will use the current funding to strengthen product development, hire talent, improve its B2B offering and expand to other cities. The company was founded in October 2014 and is led by founder and CEO Kiran Kalakuntla and co-founder and COO Dinesh Koka. eKincare offers an online platform and mobile app that digitizes existing physical medical records and aggregates medical results from various healthcare providers into a single repository. The service, operated by Aayuv Technologies Pvt Ltd and led by founder and CEO Kiran Kalakuntla, is currently in beta. The platform updates user profiles with incoming medical data and analyzes that data to identify potential health risks and prompt users to take action. The company plans to use recent funding to accelerate product development, expand hiring, and increase marketing. eKincare’s core product focuses on enabling users to monitor critical medical information and access it from anywhere.

Total raised
$17M
Funding rounds
4
Latest round
Series B
Latest activity
Mar 2022

Industries

  • Employee Benefits
  • Health Care
  • Information Services
  • Wellness
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Recent funding

  1. Series B

    Mar 2022

    $15M

  2. Series A

    Jan 2018

    $2M

  3. Series A

    Mar 2016

    $0M

  4. Equity

    Jan 2015

    $0M

Team

  • Kiran Kalakuntla

    Founder & CEO

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  • Srikanth Samudrala

    Co-founder & CTO

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  • Noel Coutinho

    Chief Business Officer & SVP, BD & Sales

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  • Lavanya Aribandi

    Chief Medical Officer

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