Top 30 Life Science Startup Investors in India in October 2023

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• Clensta — Clensta is a biotechnology start-up to improve the National Hygiene condition whilst addressing the aspect of water conservation. Clensta is an Indian startup and in association with IIT Delhi, works to create innovative healthcare solutions to make hygiene accessible for anyone, anytime, and anywhere. Driven by their aim to create products thatpromote complete cleaning solutions without water.
• Oben Electric — Oben EV is an electric vehicle company developing new electric 2-wheelers in-house with indigenously developed components to deliver high quality products for the Indian market & founded by IIT Kharagpur & IIM Bangalore Alumni.Oben’s vision is to use technology as a tool to become the market leader by developing reliable, performanceoriented, and connected electric 2-wheelers with world class designs for the customers.
• SafEarth — SafEarth Clean Technologies, India - Renewable energy is today the cheapest source of energy around the world, yet 9 out of 10 people don’t end up making this decision.

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• Luna — Physical therapy is powerful—for developing strength, managing emerging conditions, or recovering from surgery. But it’s challenging for physical therapy to make a significant clinical impact because therapists and patients are worn out.Traditional physical therapy leaves more than 50% of therapists suffering from work-related pain and 70% ofpatients failing to complete their course of care. On both sides of the therapy table, people need better support.At Luna, they’re designing a practice that gives therapists and patients the independence, control, and motivation they need to feel meaningful relief.
• Humanly.io — Humanly’s conversational AI engages with every single candidate. By automating the repetitive candidate screening and selection tasks, you reclaim valuable time. And by creating visibility into the interview, you make more confident and equitable hiring decisions using clear-cut evidence. The company was founded in 2019 and is Co-Headquartered inSeattle, Washington , and Sacramento, California.
• ARC Health — ARC Health elevates mental healthcare, one professional at a time. With our forward-thinking, provider-centric approach.

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• RAS Luxury Oils — 100% natural & Organic Skin Care. RAS Luxury Oils is an integration of ancient Ayurvedic practices eminent in Indian Culture and Scientific Research and development
• Zero Cow Factory — Zero Cow Factory is reinventing the meaning of traditional dairy and food industry by producing India's first animal-free milk protein and dairy products (certainly a world's first A2 milk protein) using bioengineering the microbes & precision fermentation. Our patented technology is to reproduce nature identical milk proteins tocraft real dairy products that are ethical, safe, delicious, and identical to cow milk without any animal involved. Our products are free of lactose, antibiotics, hormone, cholesterol and saturated fat. Our technology is also environmentally friendly and there is 99% less land consumption, 98% less water consumption, 84% less CO2e consumption and 65% less energy consumption compared to traditional dairy industry.
• BluSmart Mobility — Blu Smart Mobility is a provider of electric shared smart mobility platform for transportation. Blu Smart is an all-electric, shared, and smart mobility platform for ride-sharing, car-sharing, and scooter-sharing. Blu Smart is a 100% electric mobility platform that partners with electric vehicle manufactures.

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• ProducePay Inc. — ProducePay provides a wide array of payment solutions to the fresh produce industry and its agents. Produce Pay was first conceived at Cornell University. With strong support from experienced faculty and the student body, it was able to rapidly gain momentum. Produce Pay obtained recognition from Cornell’s entrepreneurial community and was soondubbed "The Next Johnson Start-Up," in reference to Cornell’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management.
• Animol Discovery — Animol is building its own pipeline of break-through proprietary veterinary small molecules led by a team of animal health industry experts with vast experience in bringing drugs to market. With our unique and powerful technology platform we deliver innovative medicines that are specifically designed for the needs of veterinary patients.
• Slingshot Biosciences — Precise, reliable, and repeatable results. With synthetic cell controls, these goals are achievable in your flow cytometry experiments. Reduce costs, save time and commercialize faster. Beads for spectral compensation, immunophenotyping, viability, and assay controls.

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• MyCaptain — MyCaptain is an Edtech platform that helps people transform passion into a career, with guidance from 200 plus professionals who have made a mark in their respective fields.. MyCaptain aims to enable every human to pursue careers they truly love, right from Content creation, Writing, Design, to name a few, and facilitate their growth in the field.The platform aims to train more than a Million learners in new age professions in the year 2025.
• Dawaa Dost — Dawaa Dost specializes in the pharmacy retail chain of generic medicines in India. The company focuses on the availability of affordable generic medicines. Dawaa Dost was founded by Amit Choudhary and Yash Harlalka and is based in India.
• The Ayurveda Experience — The Most Trusted and Recognized Ayurveda Platform in North America and Australia, Your One-Stop Shop for All Things Ayurveda! Customized to your Dosha or Body Type, enabling the most personalized Ayurveda Experience. Free Shipping to most parts in the world for orders over 30 USD!

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• ImmunifyMe Healthcare Technologies Pvt Ltd — ImmunifyMe leverage BlockChain to monitor the immunization and maintain records of each and every child for their vaccination. It’s an ecosystem supported with a Mobile App and a smart Card. Our technology ensures no child goes unimmunized.
• JetSynthesys — Our aim is to build world class digital products, platforms and services in India, with a goal of impacting the daily digital lives of 1.3 Billion Indians. A billion+ reaching for their mobiles, we reach them through our products.
• Svasti Microfinance — Fulfilling their right to finance, Svasti offers Microfinance, MSME Loans, and Consumer Finance to over 2 lakh women across India

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• Peepul Tree — Peepul Tree is a platform for the hand-made artisanal works. Peepul Tree celebrates the rich and varied legacy that these artisans carry.
• Ahammune Biosciences — Ahammune Biosciences is an innovation-led drug discovery company started in 2016 which focuses on developing new treatment options for immune mediated diseases of the skin. Our current program is on the depigmenting disorder, Vitiligo.

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• Burl Concepts — Burl Concepts is a San Diego-based medical device start-up that manufactures portable ultrasound device to detect strokes in the field. It was founded in order to bring a portable and affordable pre-hospital stroke detection solution to millions of at-risk people worldwide.Fueled by an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas between the naturalsciences and engineering disciplines, the company seeks to bring academic institutions and industrial partners together to meet today’s challenges in global medical care. The first product from BURL Concepts is the SONAS portable, battery-powered ultrasound device designed for the non-invasive, transcranial diagnosis of major strokes.Founded in 2013, Burl Concepts is based on the research of Thilo Hoelscher, a neurologist who previously served as a professor at UC San Diego, where he founded the UCSD Brain Ultrasound Research Laboratory.
• BUGWORKS Research — Bugworks, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company Harnessing the power of science to develop affordable, accessible, novel therapies against infectious disea

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• Licious — Licious is a path breaking concept in the Indian Food industry; aimed at solving the perennially existing problem of finding safe, delectable, trustworthy fresh meat in India. The company builds a world-class enterprise that's bound to upgrade the way the company procures, sells, buys, and consumes meat in India.
• Ahammune Biosciences — Ahammune Biosciences is an innovation-led drug discovery company started in 2016 which focuses on developing new treatment options for immune mediated diseases of the skin. Our current program is on the depigmenting disorder, Vitiligo.
• Zaggle — Zaggle is an award-winning digital payments, cashback and analytics company. The company help corporates and individuals enjoy gifts and experiences across multiple channels everyday; in the form of employee rewards and recognition, channel partner incentives, employee benefits, online shopping cash back and restaurant cash back.

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• Pidge — Pidge is a logistics platform. It is an on-demand last-mile B2B logistics partner.
• AuraML — AuraML's synthetic data platform helps computer vision teams generate high quality labelled datasets that are better than real data. Users can create datasets that are highly varied and cover all edge cases improving the accuracy of their ML models.
• Enso Logic — Ensologic Commerce is an online marketplace that simplifies sales and distribution of consumer products in India for overseas Brands, Manufacturers or Aggregators. We have an extensive network of sellers and distributors that use our services and technology platform to sell to both online and offline consumers across India.

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• Ripplr — Ripplr is a full-stack tech distribution and logistics player that offers data-driven analytics and plugs and play system.
• ZUMI — ZUMI connects apparel wholesalers and retailers in a transparent, affordable marketplace. It empowers women retailers with the technology, logistics, and financial services to scale. Through ZUMI, customers order via SMS, call, or with a ZUMI Agent. It collects orders from suppliers early each morning. Its logistics partners deliver to customerswithin 18 hours of ordering then customers pay with mobile money.ZUMI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.
• Ed Partners — Get School Development Loan up to Ksh 20 million in 3 days, School Transportation Loan, School Techy Loan and School Upgrade Loans Available!

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• Preimage — Accelerate your Photogrammetry Process Upload your aerial datasets and generate high-quality outputs at unprecedented processing speeds Try Now Preimage is a fully-managed cloud photogrammetry application Drone photogrammetry is pivotal in the functioning and decision-making of several businesses in various industries. However, most software tools being used today are time-consuming, expensive, and resource intensive.
• SanchiConnect — SanchiConnect platform enables deep tech companies acquire funding, talent and customers.
• Silence laboratories — The versatile toolkit for MPC-TSS and Privacy-Preserving Compute. Enabling enterprises to adopt Threshold Signatures and Secure Computations.

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• Pepper Content — Pepper is a powerful content marketing stack that helps you create high-quality content at speed and scale. Build your dream team and manage all your content on our platform, designed for champions.
• ErlySign — ErlySign develops noninvasive home-based early detection test kits for fatal diseases like Oral cancer, Uterine cancer, Prostate cancer, Lung Cancer, Breast Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer and many more. With our next gen diagnostics solution we can identify the cancer even before a visible tumor or lesion appears.

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• pumpumpum — Pumpumpum is an asset-light fintech mobility platform. We are empowering pre-owned car users with an IoT-enabled smart car subscription model. Users can select a pre-owned car of their choice, without worrying about the price, financing, warranty, quality & depreciation of the car. We are building a risk-free & high-quality pre-owned carportfolio for our financial partners via the B2B2C approach.
• ThinkMetal — ThinkMetal provides a compact metal 3D printer that prints metal parts at your desk faster than ever before.
• ErlySign — ErlySign develops noninvasive home-based early detection test kits for fatal diseases like Oral cancer, Uterine cancer, Prostate cancer, Lung Cancer, Breast Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer and many more. With our next gen diagnostics solution we can identify the cancer even before a visible tumor or lesion appears.

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• Multibhashi — Best way to learn English speaking course, Learn Indian & Foreign languages from English & vice versa, Alphabets, Numbers, Grammar & more
• Biomoneta Research — Biomoneta is a health tech startup that aims to prevent the transmission of infection in the hospital and the community, and the spread of microbial contamination in commercial and academic laboratories. Our novel, extremely effective air decontamination technology traps and kills bacteria, mold and viruses that contaminate the environment andcause infection and product loss. Our energy efficient devices can be deployed near patient beds in the hospital and home, in biotech laboratories to create local zones of decontamination, and can be integrated into central air handling units to provide building-wide protection.
• Creditas Solutions — Digital Debt Collections | Delinquency Management | Debt Recovery

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• Gousto — Gousto provides you with all the ingredients in the right proportions to cook delicious meals at home. The produce is organic, fresh, and seasonal. Gousto’s recipes are developed by a team of passionate chefs and tested by all their friends and families first (very picky people). You get to choose the recipes online and every week the selection isupdated to make sure there’re plenty of new recipes for you. The recipes are delivered right to your doorstep once a week so you decide when to cook. Whenever you’re on holiday or just don’t have time, simply place the subscription on hold – it’s easy.Gousto was started in 2011 by two friends who share a passion for food and cooking. In their previous lives, Timo and James loved cooking but didn’t have much time to go to various grocery shops. They found it difficult to cook recipes from online databases or follow cook-along TV shows. Ready-meals from supermarkets do the job but the quality isn’t great, they have lots of additives, and they get boring very easily. One day, James and Timo decided that there must be some way to make life easier and the idea for Gousto was born. The first recipes were offered at market stalls and from there the concept has grown into what you see today. Of course, all of Timo and James' friends are Gousto guinea pigs. Today, Gousto has a team of professional chefs and passionate amateurs (thanks mum), making sure that the recipes cover all cuisines and styles.
• Grab — Grab operates a mobile technology platform that integrates city transportation for driver-partners and customers in South East Asia. It offers services like GrabTaxi, GrabCar, GrabHitch, GrabShare, GrabCoach, GrabShuttle, GrabShuttle Plus, GrabFamily, JustGrab, GrabNow, and GrabRental. Grab offers services in Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines,Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Lng founded it in 2012 and headquartered in Singapore. It has additional offices in Seattle, Beijing, Bangalore, Jakarta, and Vietnam.
• GoTo Group — GoTo Group is an application used for ride-hailing, food delivery, and other services. The company was formed by the merging of start-ups Gojek and Tokopedia in May 2021.

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• Krsnaa Diagnostics — Krsnaa Diagnostics provides healthcare diagnostics services.

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• Eduvanz — Eduvanz is NBFC and private finance company offers low interest student, education, career, skill development loan in Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore.
• Masai School — Become a Software Developer in 7 months with Masai School. Pay Rs. 0 until you get a job of Rs. 5 LPA or more.Attend live coding classes from anywhere in India..
• BetterPlace — People-centric HR technology, employee benefits management, upskilling platform and workforce fulfilment solution. We help organisations achieve operational excellence.

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• Clinikally — Video consult top skin & hair doctors online with the expertise of over 30,000 patients. Shop with us & get the finest skin & hair care products now!
• Anchor — Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way.
• Vellum — Vellum is the development platform for production-worthy large language model applications.

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• Ahammune Biosciences — Ahammune Biosciences is an innovation-led drug discovery company started in 2016 which focuses on developing new treatment options for immune mediated diseases of the skin. Our current program is on the depigmenting disorder, Vitiligo.

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• Scholr — Scholr is an online educational service that provides its users with personalized learning experiences. It answers problems ranging from mathematical expressions to word problems from all the CBSE textbooks of mathematics and science. Scholr was launched by Himanshu Nimje and Manil Gupta in 2015. It is operated from Mumbai, Maharashtra.
• Pee Safe — Pee Safe was started in 2013, launching the first of its kind toilet seat sanitizer. Since 2017, the company has expanded into several personal hygiene categories including feminine hygiene (pads, tampons, cups, etc), men's intimate hygiene, hand hygiene (Palm Safe), face mask and mist (Pollution Safe), while being one of the leaders in a fewsub-categories.
• Book My Bai — Bookmybai.com has over 10000 maids, baby sitters, nanny, cooks, patient care staff in Mumbai,Thane,Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kolkata. Select from over 50000 options and hire them at the click of a button

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• Clensta — Clensta is a biotechnology start-up to improve the National Hygiene condition whilst addressing the aspect of water conservation. Clensta is an Indian startup and in association with IIT Delhi, works to create innovative healthcare solutions to make hygiene accessible for anyone, anytime, and anywhere. Driven by their aim to create products thatpromote complete cleaning solutions without water.
• Bluwheelz — BluWheelz is a Tech-enabled Mid-mile and last-mile logistics solutions company, with an Exclusive EV Fleet, addressing cost & timelines challenges for E-commerce, Quick commerce, Food Tech industries and creating a positive environment impact.
• Supplynote — End-to-end supply chain management tool to track inventory, orders, payments and suppliers online

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• Ahammune Biosciences — Ahammune Biosciences is an innovation-led drug discovery company started in 2016 which focuses on developing new treatment options for immune mediated diseases of the skin. Our current program is on the depigmenting disorder, Vitiligo.

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• ErlySign — ErlySign develops noninvasive home-based early detection test kits for fatal diseases like Oral cancer, Uterine cancer, Prostate cancer, Lung Cancer, Breast Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer and many more. With our next gen diagnostics solution we can identify the cancer even before a visible tumor or lesion appears.
• Mobius Development Studio — automation, gaming, platform

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• Ykrita Life Sciences — YLS is developing a bio-medical device: Bio-engineered Artificial Ectopic Liver (BAEL), aimed at helping clinicians to treat patients suffering from liver failure while eliminating the need for an organ transplant, hospitalization, and exorbitant expenditure on the treatment.

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• Globela Pharma — Every Life is Precious. Globela: Quality, affordable healthcare globally. Changing lives with innovative pharma products. Serving the underserved.
• Emil Pharmaceutical — Emil Pharmaceutical is responsible for creating, producing, and selling medications of a quality that is recognised worldwide.
• Genworks — GenWorks is no1 medical solution provider in India providing digital healthcare solutions and, we are providing healthcare training solutions in India.

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• Mylab Discovery Solutions — Mylab develops molecular diagnostics solutions for Covid-19, cancer, food safety, agriculture, and veterinary applications

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• Sushrut Designs —
• Ahammune Biosciences — Ahammune Biosciences is an innovation-led drug discovery company started in 2016 which focuses on developing new treatment options for immune mediated diseases of the skin. Our current program is on the depigmenting disorder, Vitiligo.
• Serigen Mediproducts — Serigen Mediproducts Private Limited is an unlisted private company incorporated on 03 February, 2015. It is classified as a private limited company and is located in Pune, Maharashtra. It's authorized share capital is INR 2.00 lac and the total paid-up capital is INR 1.52 lac.

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• Ketai Bio — Ketai Bio is a synthetic biology company dedicated to the R&D, production and sales of high value-added bio-based products.
• New Vision Medical — New Vision Medical is an IT infrastructure service provider that offers clinical trial-related digital platforms and services.
• Tenpoint Therapeutics — Tenpoint Therapeutics is a biotechnology company pursuing vision-restoring engineered cell-based therapeutics.

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• Ahammune Biosciences — Ahammune Biosciences is an innovation-led drug discovery company started in 2016 which focuses on developing new treatment options for immune mediated diseases of the skin. Our current program is on the depigmenting disorder, Vitiligo.