Nishita Thakur is building the pediatric health system India needed

Her twins arrived at 27 weeks, thirteen weeks early, and spent nearly two months in neonatal intensive care. When they came home, Nishita Thakur found a second job waiting behind new motherhood. Discharge summaries, prescriptions, vaccination dates and growth charts had piled up across paper files, WhatsApp threads, email and her camera roll, and every pediatric visit began with the same anxious scroll to find the one report the doctor needed. One question stuck with her. “Why isn’t there a single place where parents can securely manage their child’s healthcare journey?” The answer she couldn’t find became Kidscur.

One broken loop

The scramble Nishita knew was not hers alone. A child’s first years carry one of the densest medical timelines in a person’s life, a long run of vaccinations on a fixed schedule, regular growth and development checks, the occasional specialist, and a paper trail behind every one of them. Most Indian parents hold all of it in their heads and a handful of half-full folders. That works right up until the moment it doesn’t, when a doctor needs a history that happens to live in five places at once.

The clinics on the other end of the consultation are caught in the mirror image of the same gap. Many pediatric practices, smaller ones especially, still run scheduling, prescriptions, billing and patient follow-up by hand, on tools that neither talk to each other nor send anything home to the family afterwards. Nishita read the two not as separate frustrations but as one broken loop. Parents cannot keep a continuous record because the practices they depend on were never built to hand them one.

What Nishita built

Kidscur is the parent’s side of the answer. It is a companion app that keeps a child’s records, vaccinations and growth milestones in one secure place, flags what is due next, and puts the right detail a tap away when it counts, in a clinic, at a pharmacy, or during a late-night emergency far from the usual doctor. The aim is not storage for its own sake but a history a family can actually carry and trust.

KiddoKlinik+ is the doctor’s side. It lifts a pediatric clinic’s scheduling, prescriptions, billing and follow-up out of paper and into one system, and automates the between-visit communication that usually slips through the cracks. Built to run alongside Kidscur, it lets a family and its pediatrician work from the same living history rather than two partial ones, so care continues instead of restarting at every appointment. Together the two products are the connected pediatric ecosystem Nishita set out to build, both operating under Altilium Tecnologia LLP, the company she co-founded in September 2021.

Built bootstrapped, by a lean team of 3–5 members

Altilium has stayed entirely self-funded. It is run by 3-5 people working across technology, healthcare and business, and in the early days each of them was founder, product manager, support, marketer and tester at once, learning the product by shipping it on tight resources. Nishita carried all of that while weighing the company against new motherhood and a career she was restarting after a break, the kind of simultaneous load that never shows up on a pitch deck.

Healthcare made it harder still. Building here means long adoption cycles, shifting regulation, a reliance on multiple vendors, and the uncommon task of earning trust from two sides at once, the parents handing over their most sensitive records, and the clinicians being asked to change how they work. There were stretches of self-doubt; what the grind left behind, she says, was grit. “Entrepreneurship isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about showing up consistently, learning quickly, and staying committed to the problem you’re trying to solve.” And scale, she insists, is not the measure of the work. “Impact isn’t defined by the size of the team, but by the problems we choose to solve and the lives we aspire to improve.”

Early proof

The signal Nishita trusts most is adoption. Thousands of parents were already managing their children’s care on Kidscur before KiddoKlinik+ extended the same backbone into clinics, an order that matters, because it means the platform earned families first and then brought doctors into a system those families were already using. The outside recognition has followed.

• Featured in the India Today She 100 list.
• Recognised as “Mom of the Year 2025 – Trailblazer” by MomsLeague Global.
• Selected for the NSRCEL IIM Bangalore Women Startup Program.
• An active voice in founder networks including Women Listed, HEN and SheSparks.

Kidscur and KiddoKlinik+ timeline

• Before Kidscur, Nishita becomes a mother to premature twins born at 27 weeks, and spends the months after their NICU discharge managing their entire medical history by hand.
• September 2021, She co-founds Altilium Tecnologia LLP and begins building Kidscur, a parent-facing pediatric health app, fully bootstrapped.
• Scaling Kidscur, Thousands of parents adopt the app to keep records, vaccinations and growth milestones in one place.
• KiddoKlinik+, Working closely with pediatricians, the team extends the platform into clinics, linking parents and doctors in one continuous system.
• 2025, Recognition arrives, including the India Today She 100 list and MomsLeague’s “Mom of the Year – Trailblazer” award.

What Nishita’s story teaches founders

Her lessons are plain and hard-won. Start with a real problem rather than a clever idea. Listen to users relentlessly. Treat the work as a marathon, not a sprint, and prize resilience over perfection. Stay curious, keep learning, and accept that failure is part of the route rather than a detour off it. Above all, she argues, the companies that matter usually grow out of something the founder has lived, a personal stake that keeps you in the room long after the novelty wears off.

Start with a problem you deeply care about … Sometimes, your biggest challenge becomes your greatest opportunity to create meaningful impact.”

Nishita’s vision for the next three to five years

The goal she states without hedging is to make Kidscur and KiddoKlinik+ India’s most trusted pediatric healthcare ecosystem, digital tools in the hands of millions of parents, smarter systems inside the clinics they visit, and a child’s health history that is finally secure, organised and there the moment it’s needed. For a company that began with one mother trying to find a single report at the wrong hour, it is a straight line from the problem she lived to the one she now wants to solve at scale, and a reminder that some of the most useful products start as the thing their founder badly needed and couldn’t buy.

Frequently asked questions about Nishita Thakur and Kidscur

Who is Nishita Thakur?

Nishita Thakur is an Indian entrepreneur and the co-founder of Kidscur and KiddoKlinik+, two pediatric health-tech brands operated under Altilium Tecnologia LLP, founded in September 2021 and based in Bengaluru. A mother of premature twins, she built Kidscur out of her own experience managing her children’s scattered medical records after a long NICU stay.

What is Kidscur?

Kidscur is a digital health companion app that helps parents securely manage their child’s medical records, vaccinations, growth milestones and overall healthcare journey in one place. Its sister platform, KiddoKlinik+, helps pediatric clinics digitise their workflows, so parents and doctors share one continuous view of a child’s health.

What is the difference between Kidscur and KiddoKlinik+?

Kidscur is the parent-facing app for managing a child’s health records and vaccination schedule. KiddoKlinik+ is the doctor-facing clinic management platform for appointments, prescriptions, billing and patient follow-up. Together they form a connected pediatric healthcare ecosystem; both are brands of Altilium Tecnologia LLP.

What is KiddoKlinik+?

KiddoKlinik+ is a pediatric clinic management platform that helps doctors digitise their workflows, scheduling, prescriptions, billing and patient follow-up, and stay better connected to the families they treat. It is the clinic-facing half of the Kidscur ecosystem, so a child’s record stays continuous across home and clinic.

When was Kidscur founded and where is it based?

Kidscur was founded in September 2021, when Nishita Thakur co-founded Altilium Tecnologia LLP, the company behind both Kidscur and KiddoKlinik+. It is based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, and has been bootstrapped from the start.

What problem does Kidscur solve?

Kidscur tackles the fragmentation of child healthcare. Parents often juggle scattered records, missed vaccination dates and information they can’t reach when they need it most, while many clinics still run on manual, disconnected processes. Kidscur gives families one secure record they can access anytime, and KiddoKlinik+ gives clinics the digital tools to deliver more continuous care.

What is Nishita Thakur’s net worth?

There is no disclosed, independently verifiable net-worth figure for Nishita Thakur. Altilium Tecnologia LLP is privately held and the venture has been bootstrapped rather than externally funded, so her stake is a private founder holding rather than a market-priced one. Any specific figure circulating online would be an unsourced estimate and is not repeated here.

What can founders learn from Nishita Thakur?

That the most defensible companies often come from a problem the founder has lived personally, and that a small bootstrapped team can still build in a hard, regulated category by listening relentlessly to users and treating the journey as a marathon. As she puts it, start with a real problem, value resilience over perfection, and keep showing up.

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