That stark imbalance, reflected in a doctor-population ratio of 1:1456, exposes a brutal truth: millions of Indians still struggle to access basic medical care. From delayed diagnoses to overburdened urban hospitals, the consequences ripple across generations.
Yet, a shift is underway. Government programs like Ayushman Bharat, tech-enabled initiatives like eSanjeevani, and a growing ecosystem of startups are reframing the healthcare conversation – from scarcity to scale, and from reactive care to proactive, data-led delivery. The foundation of India’s next-gen healthcare system is being laid not just with brick and mortar, but with software, sensors, and smart policy.
This is no longer a question of possibility. It’s a question of how fast – and how equitably – we can scale what’s already working.
India’s Health Tech Moment: Frugal, Fast, and Built for Scale
For decades, Indian entrepreneurs have excelled at solving complex problems with limited resources, often producing solutions that are not only affordable but built to scale. Nowhere is this more visible than in health tech.
The COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst. What started as a crisis response has evolved into a structural shift, with both startups and government-backed platforms accelerating the adoption of telemedicine, AI-powered diagnostics, digital health records, and remote care tools.
Driving this shift is a convergence of policy, infrastructure, and culture. The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) is quietly rewriting the rules by building a national digital health stack – from health IDs and interoperable records to patient-first platforms that are reshaping how care is accessed and delivered. Programs like CoWIN and Tele-MANAS have already demonstrated what’s possible when digital tools are deployed at a population scale – and now, the same infrastructure is being extended into everyday care.
At the same time, India has proven that inclusive, utility-driven technology can scale like few others. UPI transformed how people move money, across every layer of society – from small shopkeepers to urban professionals – by solving a real, daily need with radical simplicity. The same was true with CoWIN, which enabled millions to book and track vaccinations with ease. These aren’t just digital success stories – they’re proof that when technology is intuitive and indispensable, adoption follows. Health tech is walking into a market that already knows how to tap, scan, and transact. The infrastructure – and the mindset – for scale already exists.
And the startup ecosystem has stepped up. From AI tools that detect tuberculosis or cancer from chest X-rays in seconds, to cloud-based platforms that digitise rural clinics overnight, to mental health solutions using virtual AI companions – these ventures are solving high-stakes, high-friction problems with precision and purpose.
What unites these innovations isn’t just their ingenuity – it’s their intent. This is technology built not for the margins, but for scale. Not for the privileged few, but for the millions who’ve been underserved for too long. It’s healthcare that’s faster, smarter, more transparent – and deeply human.
HealthX Elevate: Fueling India’s Health Innovation Engine
But innovation doesn’t scale in isolation. It needs recognition, mentorship, and access to the right ecosystem. That’s the idea behind HealthX Elevate, a platform launched by Optum India and CNBC-TV18 to identify and amplify the next wave of healthcare disruptors. Designed as a launchpad for high-impact, tech-led ventures, HealthX Elevate offers more than visibility – it delivers national recognition, strategic support, and real-world access to investors and industry leaders.
Startups across India were invited to apply with solutions that address real challenges – from delivering care in remote areas, to digitising broken workflows, to using AI to improve outcomes. Through a rigorous two-phase selection process involving advisory boards, expert juries, and ecosystem stakeholders, ten standout ventures were selected. Together, they form the HealthX Elevate Startups – Batch of 2025: a cohort shaping the future of Indian healthcare from the ground up.
Meet the HealthX Elevate Startups – Batch of 2025
Diagnostics & Early Detection
Lenek Technologies Private Limited
Making powerful diagnostics portable, intelligent, and made in India.
When the second wave of COVID-19 exposed critical gaps in India’s medical infrastructure, Sidesh Kumar, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Lenek Technologies, started building. What began with a self-developed oxygen concentrator has since grown into a mission: to make medical imaging devices that are portable, AI-powered, and proudly built in India.
Lenek’s flagship innovation is LeXIS, a handheld X-ray generator that weighs just 3.5 kg, fits in a backpack, and runs over 100 exposures on a single charge – ideal for rural and low-resource settings. Alongside it is LIRA (Lenek Intelligent Radiology Assistant), a cloud-based AI platform that helps triage X-rays by categorising them as normal or abnormal, detecting tuberculosis, and identifying eight other pathologies – reducing radiologist workload and accelerating diagnosis.
With validation studies completed in hospitals across Karnataka and Maharashtra, and over ₹1 crore in quotation value already generated, Lenek is gaining ground fast. Incubated at IIT Kanpur and supported by ICMR, the company is also developing portable ultrasound and cardiovascular diagnostic devices as part of its future roadmap.
As Sidesh put it during the HealthX Elevate showcase, “More than 80% of India’s medical imaging devices are imported. We want to change that – with solutions that are portable, intelligent, and truly built for India.”
AI Companions & Digital Therapeutics
Vigorus AI Healthtech
Using AI agents to digitise care, accelerate documentation, and unlock smarter clinical decisions.
Doctors in India spend up to 70% of their time on administrative tasks – typing case notes, writing prescriptions, and filling out forms – leaving less time for actual care. Vigorus AI Healthtech wants to change that. Founded in November 2022, the company is building intelligent AI agents designed to ease clinical workflows, boost documentation speed, and support more accurate, data-led diagnoses.
Their product suite includes three core tools. Sahiyogi, a conversational AI assistant, collects patient history through natural voice interactions and suggests potential diagnoses using a built-in clinical decision support system. VoiceMD enables doctors to convert voice inputs into structured EMR entries in real time, complete with multilingual support across Hindi, English, and regional languages. And LipiAI digitises handwritten prescriptions and notes with over 95% accuracy, eliminating errors and streamlining patient records.
Together, these tools automate the most time-consuming parts of clinical work – without removing doctors from the decision-making loop. Integration is plug-and-play, with SDKs that embed into existing EMR, HIMS, or PACS systems. And with blockchain-powered health lockers and end-to-end data encryption, patient privacy and security remain front and centre.
As Co-Founder Chirag Goyal shared during his presentation, “We’re not replacing clinicians – we’re giving them time back. Our AI agents make healthcare smarter, safer, and more human again.”
Mental & Emotional Wellness
Infiheal Healthtech
Making therapy accessible, scalable, and stigma-free with AI-powered support.
For Srishti Srivastava, Founder and CEO of Infiheal Healthtech, the journey toward mental health innovation started young – after her own experience with social anxiety brought her face-to-face with India’s fragmented and stigmatised mental health landscape. That early insight would later evolve into Healo, an AI-powered mental health platform designed to bridge the gaps she once struggled with: stigma, affordability, accessibility, and fragmentation.
Healo’s platform is built around a “human-in-the-loop” AI system that handles roughly 85% of low-risk mental health cases while seamlessly escalating high-risk cases to trained therapists. It combines AI therapy, mood tracking, journaling tools, and live therapy sessions – all in one unified experience. Since its launch, Healo has supported over 4 lakh users across 165 countries, with 35% month-on-month growth, and notable traction in the B2B space – most notably through a partnership with Lupin, which saw a 40% jump in app downloads and 30% boost in engagement after integrating Healo’s SDK.
Now, Infiheal is expanding its impact with DuoChat, the world’s first AI relationship counsellor. DuoChat supports real-time, emotionally intelligent conversations between couples, friends, or colleagues – intervening only when conflict escalates, and guiding users toward shared understanding through calm, respectful reflection.
Built on proprietary Indian datasets and backed by partners like Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI, Infiheal is setting new benchmarks for what mental health tech can achieve. As Srishti said during the HealthX Elevate showcase, “We aren’t replacing therapy. We’re scaling empathy, and making it available to everyone who needs to feel seen, heard, and supported.”
Mental & Emotional Wellness
No Worry No Tension Healthcare
Democratising mental health through India’s first patented AI screening tool for emotional wellness.
Founded by psychiatrist Dr Sandeep Vohra, No Worry No Tension Healthcare is on a mission to make emotional wellness measurable, stigma-free, and truly preventive. Built by a team of psychiatrists, psychologists, technologists, and data scientists, the platform combines AI, machine learning, and augmented human intelligence to deliver end-to-end mental health support – from early detection to care referrals – at a population scale.
At the heart of their platform is the Emotional Wellness Index (EWI), a scientifically validated 10-minute screening tool that assigns users a colour-coded score ranging from green (healthy) to red (urgent psychiatric intervention required). EWI helps users self-assess anonymously, guiding them toward appropriate care – whether that’s a counsellor or psychiatrist – based on their score. It’s the only preventive-level mental health scale scientifically validated in India and internationally recognised, having been featured in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry (2019) and the American Textbook of Psychiatry (2022).
The platform offers multiple deployment models – API, link-based, and QR code integration – making it accessible across hospitals, corporates, schools, security forces, and even rural health centres. No Worry No Tension also holds India’s first patent for an AI-based mass screening tool for mental health, granted in October 2025.
As Dr Vohra shared on the HealthX Elevate stage, we’re not just treating mental illness – we’re engineering early detection, automatic triaging, and culturally neutral care that can reach every corner of India. This is Made in India, for India – and for the world.”
Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation
Wizphys AI
Reimagining physiotherapy with computer vision and AI-powered home rehab.
For many patients, physiotherapy starts with promise – but ends in drop-off. Sessions are missed, home routines are skipped, and progress stalls. Wizphys AI is tackling this compliance gap head-on with a virtual physiotherapy assistant that uses computer vision to guide and monitor patients – both inside clinics and at home.
Built by a team combining medical expertise and tech know-how, Wizphys offers a growing library of musculoskeletal rehab programs for conditions affecting the shoulder, knee, hip, ankle, neck, and back. The system tracks posture and movement in real time, flags errors, and provides visual guidance – ensuring correct form and steady recovery. It’s deployed in two ways: as an in-clinic setup powered by an iPad, TV, and depth camera; and through a mobile app for home rehab, which helps patients continue care in a cost-effective, self-guided way.
The impact is real. Wizphys has already generated ₹50 lakh in revenue in just six months, with expected year-end numbers between ₹1.5-1.8 crore. The platform is live in India and the Middle East, and is preparing to enter the US market under a research-use model. Regulatory milestones include Saudi FDA approval and pending CDSCO clearance in India.
As Co-Founder Siddhartha Gadre explained, “We’re giving physiotherapists the tools to extend their reach, increase patient compliance, and deliver consistent, measurable recovery at scale.”
Integrated Health Ecosystems
Pratibha Healthkon
Building last-mile, tech-enabled health systems for India’s most underserved communities.
When it comes to delivering healthcare at scale, complexity often becomes the barrier. Pratibha Healthkon, led by Founder and Managing Director Pranay Garg, is solving that by simplifying and systematising population-level care – especially in rural, tribal, and underserved regions.
Their flagship solution, Healthkon, is a unified care delivery platform that spans prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. Designed for both assisted and self-service models, the platform integrates wearable tech, AI-based risk scoring, natural language processing, and point-of-care diagnostics into one streamlined workflow. From triaging patients using a red-amber-green segmentation model to closing the care loop with data-backed referrals, Healthkon empowers frontline workers and system administrators alike.
Over the past five years, Pratibha Healthkon has impacted over 5 million lives across India through partnerships with more than 600 primary health centres and health and wellness centres. Their work supports multiple public health missions – especially in the Northeast – offering actionable intelligence on both communicable and non-communicable disease trends, segmented down to community and individual levels. Recognised among the top five innovations at BioAsia 2023 and one of the Top 50 healthcare companies globally by IFAH, Healthkon is now expanding its focus to the global south, bringing proven tools and population-level insights to new geographies.
As Pranay shared during his presentation, “Our goal is simple – connect the last mile with the future of healthcare. From risk to recovery, Healthkon brings precision, accessibility, and intelligence into one continuum of care.”
Telehealth & Remote Care
Briota Technologies
Powering chronic‐care management with smart, connected solutions.
Founded to tackle the growing burden of non‐communicable diseases in India, Briota Technologies combines AI, device innovation and telehealth to bridge the care gap – especially outside traditional hospital settings. Their journey began when co‑founder Dr Gajanand Sakhre experienced his mother’s struggle with asthma and decided to build India’s first AI‑powered digital spirometer (“Spiro Pro”). The company then expanded into a POCD (point‑of‑care diagnostics) backpack and full smart‐clinic ecosystem, underpinned by their AI platform “Suraksha”.
The clinical backbone is a 14‑device bundle housed in a backpack, designed for mobile or peripheral‑clinic use, paired with a vernacular‑language mobile app and teleconsultation workflows. Patients are screened at home or at primary centres, receive a health score, and are referred or managed through connected care pathways. They’re already live in multiple Indian states, in tier‑II/III cities via smart clinics, and aim to operate 100 such clinics by 2025‑26.
As Co‑Founder & COO, Aditi Roshan Pais shared, “We are Make‑in‑India, made for Bharat – and ready for the world.”
Telehealth & Remote Care
Primary Healthtech
Innovative, portable, IoT-enabled devices for point-of-care testing.
For most clinics across India, especially those in small towns and rural areas, lab tests often mean long delays, lost follow-ups, and rising patient drop-offs. Primary Healthtech is changing that – by bringing lab-grade diagnostics directly into the doctor’s clinic.
Founder Sahil Jagnani demonstrated Primary Healthtech’s compact, IoT-enabled point-of-care diagnostics device that delivers comprehensive blood test results in under 30 minutes. Built indigenously and validated across top-tier hospitals, including AIIMS New Delhi, the device now powers 150+ clinics nationwide. It offers over 50 common test parameters – like HbA1c, CBC, and glucose – in real time, and fits in a 7 kg portable form factor, making it ideal for frontline use.
What sets it apart isn’t just the hardware, but the ecosystem around it. Every test is synced with a backend dashboard, ensuring diagnostic accuracy and auditability. Trained DMLT professionals and compounders are being deployed alongside the devices, with vernacular-language training modules that cut onboarding from months to days. This includes Train.AI, a smart instruction engine that simplifies setup and usage through step-by-step visual guidance.
Behind the scenes, the team is also building Patho.AI, a clinical-grade AI engine designed to assist pathologists by automating result verification – aimed at eventually handling up to 99% of the typical workload. With over 2 lakh patient records already processed, their AI training datasets are growing fast, laying the groundwork for even more advanced diagnostic intelligence in the near future.
From its roots at IIT Guwahati to regulatory clearances from CDSCO and support from ICMR and MeitY, Primary Healthtech is pushing a bold agenda: diagnostic speed, scale, and self-reliance. As Sahil put it, “We’re making a device, yes. But we’re also building the digital backbone for decentralised diagnostics. Fast, reliable, and made for Bharat.”
Telehealth & Remote Care
Jiyyo Innovations
Bridging care gaps with remote consultation and logistics support.
In much of rural and semi-urban India, pharmacies are the first – and often only – touchpoint for healthcare. Jiyyo Innovations is turning that reality into a scalable solution by converting local pharmacies into AI-enabled e-clinics offering assisted teleconsultation, diagnostics, and medicine delivery under one roof.
Founded by IIT Roorkee alumni and a practising paediatrician, Jiyyo has built what it calls the world’s largest chain of last-mile healthcare distribution centres. Patients consult remote doctors via video, assisted by local pharmacists trained to handle both logistics and basic care tasks. With medications and diagnostics on-site, the model ensures continuity, convenience, and trust.
The platform bundles specialist video consults with Jiyyo-branded pharmaceuticals, diagnostic services, and wellness products tailored to local needs. AI tools – like face scans for vitals and symptom checkers – are deployed carefully, validated through health camps, clinical comparisons, and in-house medical oversight.
The results show. Jiyyo e-clinics operate like OPDs, serving chronic and acute cases with a 40% repeat patient rate. Monthly revenue per clinic has grown 7x since 2020, and their work has been documented in peer-reviewed studies and featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
As Co-Founder and CEO, Siddharth Angrish said at the HealthX Elevate showcase, “We’re not just building clinics – we’re building capacity. In places where doctors can’t be, we make sure healthcare still can.”
Telehealth & Remote Care
Platinoid Technologies
Building digital platforms to streamline health operations at scale.
Behind many of India’s 10-minute medicine deliveries is Platinoid Technologies, the company powering teleconsultation and backend clinical operations for giants like Zepto, Blinkit, Amazon, and PhonePe. Through their platform MyRx, Platinoid is redefining how healthcare gets delivered – fast, affordable, and audit-ready.
Exclusively B2B, MyRx runs over 3.5 lakh teleconsultations each month, with a 24/7 network of 300+ doctors and 200+ pharmacists. Patients are connected to a doctor in under six seconds, 96% of the time. No scheduling, no delays – just instant access through partner apps, backed by a system that closes the loop with prescriptions, QR-coded follow-ups, and contact support.
Affordability is central. By bringing the average consultation cost down to ₹20, MyRx has made primary care accessible even at scale. The backend is fully digital, with AI tools for call auditing, doctor rostering, OCR-based recordkeeping, and clinical decision support systems (CDSS) to ensure consistency and compliance across interactions.
Managing doctors at scale is notoriously hard. Platinoid tackled this by building a high-retention model: doctors earn competitive income, work remotely, and operate with minimal friction – bringing attrition down from 33% to 8% in just a year.
Today, Platinoid holds a 78% market share across quick commerce and e-pharmacy consultations – and is rapidly expanding into hospitals, insurers, TPAs, and diagnostic platforms, with the aim to grow its ₹10 crore ARR to 10x next year. As CEO, Sourav Das shared, “By making these connections between patients and doctors as frictionless as they can be, we’re redefining what ‘accessible care’ actually means, at scale.”
The Road Ahead: From India, for the World
India’s healthcare story is being rewritten – not with grand declarations, but with grounded, scalable innovation. The HealthX Elevate Startups – Batch of 2025 aren’t chasing trends; they’re solving real, structural problems with solutions that are built to last, built to scale, and built for Bharat.
If India can bridge care gaps across 600,000 villages, digitise frontline clinics, empower pharmacists as care extenders, and deliver specialist consultations in seconds – not in theory, but in practice; then we’re not just fixing what’s broken. We’re building something new.
A system that’s tech-forward but people-first. That prioritises affordability without compromising quality. That treats access not as a luxury, but as a baseline. And if we can get it right here – at population scale, with limited resources and unlimited need – then the model won’t just serve India. It will serve the world.
Affordable, accessible, high-quality healthcare – for everyone, everywhere. For the first time in human history, that ambition no longer sounds naïve. It sounds within reach.
