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Biotech, genomics, menstrual health.
13 stories in Health & Biotech
A marketer who spent years on her own irregular periods teamed up with an Ayurvedic gynaecologist and built Gynoveda, a femtech brand that turns a five-thousand-year-old system of medicine into something you can measure, track and actually stick to.
A retina surgeon in Bengaluru had no treatment to offer patients losing their central vision. The cell therapy she co-founded a company to build has now improved sight by an average of 15.8 letters in its first trial.
Hormonal conditions are widespread among Indian women and are usually caught years after they start. LAIQA answers them in the place women already spend their day, which is a WhatsApp chat.
She left Harvard Business School before finishing the degree to build a women’s health clinic in Bengaluru. Five years later, Proactive For Her had raised millions and been acquired by IVF Access.
When her premature twins finally came home from two months in intensive care, Nishita Thakur found their entire medical history scattered across paper files, WhatsApp chats and her phone’s camera roll. So she set out to build the place it should have lived, Kidscur for parents, and KiddoKlinik+ for the clinics that treat them. Together they are a bootstrapped attempt to wire India’s families and pediatricians into one continuous record.
A pharmacist and MBA from Mumbai, she co-founded Avni with her husband Apurv Agrawal to rebuild period care around safety and sustainability, and reached tens of thousands of women doing it.
An IIT Bombay engineer who quit a banking career to attack menstrual-hygiene access at the manufacturing layer, by decentralising the machine, not just the product.
An online emotional-wellness platform born from a campus tragedy and a question India avoids: who do you talk to before it’s a crisis?
A trust-first community for Indian parents, built on the bet that early-parenthood decisions are made on advice, not ads.
A serial entrepreneur who built and exited TutorVista, she co-founded Portea Medical to move Indian healthcare out of the hospital and into the home.
A brewing-trained graduate who could not get hired in 1978 India started a biotech company in a garage in Bengaluru. Today Biocon is one of the country’s largest listed biopharma groups.
Started in 1989 as a single beauty and slimming centre in Safdarjung Development Area, VLCC grew into a multi-country wellness group; in January 2023, the Carlyle Group acquired a majority stake from the Luthra family in a deal widely reported at around US$300 million.
A second-generation entrepreneur after Ocimum Bio-Solutions, Anu Acharya founded Mapmygenome in 2013 to translate the human genome into actionable healthcare for individuals.
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