Plan to take Practo to 100 cities in India
10-Mar-16, The Financial Express
Practo, the Bengaluru headquartered online healthcare platform, has seen very rapid growth over the last eight years with presence in 35 Indian cities. It has even forayed overseas into countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines.
Backed by investors such as Sequoia, Matrix Partners and Tencent and having raised around $120 million, Practo aims to expand into 100 cities in India and grow as a global digital healthcare company, says Shashank N D, founder and CEO.
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"We are both a disrupter and enabler. The whole way we are disrupting is by aggregating multiple use cases for a consumer in the whole healthcare chain – which starts essentially from search and goes all the way to eventual treatments. We have partnered with enterprises, hospitals, doctors, clinics, diagnostic centres, fitness centres, pharmacies and consumers.
This aggregation can bring a 10x leap. We provide the software, hardware, marketing solutions to hospitals. We are making it easier for hospitals to adopt technology. For consumers it is easy as everything is there on an app. We are innovating out of India and now we have taken this platform to countries like Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia."
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