3 rising startups in India – August 5, 2016

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It’s a long road to the top, but these startups are making steps to get there. A healthtech startup is helping to save hearts one electrocardiogram (ECG) at a time, and a gadget repair startup and amateur sports portal have also raised funding.

Tricog

Tricog’s idea is to keep heart problems from getting this far. Photo credit: Philip Choi .

Bangalore-based healthtech startup Tricog Health Services has raised an undisclosed amount of series A funding from Inventus Capital Partners, Blume Ventures, and a clutch of angel investors. The funding will go toward improving the startup’s technology.

Heart disease is the number one killer of Indians. Tricog partners with clinics, polyclinics, hospitals, and nursing homes, and installs a cloud-connected ECG, which measures the rhythm of the heart to determine its health. ECGs can tell when a patient is having a heart attack.

When a doctor takes a patient’s ECG, the information is sent via cloud to a hub with experts who can read and interpret the ECG readings. The specialist can then send the evaluation back to the patient’s caretaker via SMS and a message on the startup’s mobile app.

Tricog also offers help interpreting ECGs via built-in algorithms and data. It can send medical professionals to a patient’s home or help transfer a patient between medical facilities. The startup was founded by a cardiologist – Dr. Charit Bhograj – in January last year. It has expanded to 250 primary and secondary care centers in 12 cities or towns. It claims to have diagnosed almost 100,000 patients.

While Tricog’s aim is to eventually implement tech solutions to detect and manage many different diseases, it joins startups like Uber Diagnostics and iMMi Life in taking tech approaches to fighting heart disease by making ECGs more accessible – to both patients and the doctors who have the skills to read them.

Repaireasy

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Gadget and mobile phone repair startup Repaireasy has raised US$275,000 in pre-series A funding from investors in and out of India, including Morris Street Advisors and P. Krishnamurthy, former vice chairman of JM Morgan Stanley.

Repaireasy will concentrate on launching 10 to 12 hubs across India. Owned and operated by Bhrmaa Software Solutions, Repaireasy was founded in 2013 by Rishi Wahi and Naveen Goyal.

Through the startup’s online portal, users can get a variety of gadgets repaired, like laptops and tablets. The company also caters to corporates with services like corporate security and consultation on IT upgrades. Repaireasy will pick up and deliver the items to be repaired, offers warranty on parts and workmanship, and also has a cash on delivery service. It competes with Servify and HandyHome.

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