Healthtech / wellness
Capital for digital health, medtech-adjacent software, care delivery, and wellness platforms.
What this thesis means
Healthtech and wellness investors back companies improving access, outcomes, or efficiency across care, diagnostics, pharma supply, and consumer wellness. India offers huge demand and messy delivery, which means distribution partnerships, trust, and regulation matter as much as product.
Expect questions on clinical credibility, provider or patient acquisition, reimbursement or payment mix, and whether growth depends on continuous subsidy. B2B health software and infrastructure often underwrite more cleanly than pure consumer wellness with weak retention.
Pitch the care or ops problem narrowly, show proof someone will pay repeatedly, and be honest about what requires licenses, clinical validation, or hospital sales cycles.
Who it fits
- Digital health, care delivery, medtech software, and wellness founders
- B2B health infrastructure selling to providers, insurers, or employers
- Teams that can navigate trust and compliance without slowing learning
What to prepare
- Evidence of clinical or operational value
- Who pays and why they renew
- Regulatory and partnership risks called out clearly
Funds with this thesis
100Unicorns
Be the 'Y Combinator of India', provide initial capital plus committed follow-on to idea-stage startups, supporting them across their first three funding rounds before connecting them to large VCs for growth capital.
$250K – $3M77 Capital
77 Capital backs early-stage Indian startups at Pre-Seed and Seed stages, focusing on SaaS, B2B marketplaces, FinTech, and HealthTech through a syndicate model that brings together aligned capital and operator networks.
$75K – $100K8X Ventures
DeepTech-focused VC backing startups with strong scientific and research foundations that can fundamentally transform industries and economies; invests and enables, leveraging Middle East and Europe relationships to help portfolio companies expand globally and raise larger follow-on rounds.
$241K – $602K