Samreen Ahmad · · 2 min readSehat Kahani secures $2.7m to widen e-health reach in Pakistan
Team Sehat Kahani/ Photo credit: Sehat Kahani
A minute is all it takes for Sehat Kahani, a Pakistan-based healthtech startup, to connect its users to a healthcare expert from over 350 cities across the country.
Its co-founder Sara Saeed Khurram, who had to give up practicing medicine briefly after the birth of her first baby, realized the power of telemedicine in healthcare to continue consultations. This led to the rollout of Sehat Kahani in 2017, which has provided more than 2.6 million consultations to date.
Khurram founded Sehat Kahani alongside fellow doctor Iffat Zafar Aga. The startup has just raised US$2.7 million in a series A round led by Amaanah Circle, a Singapore-based healthtech fund.
Companies like Epic Angels, Cross Fund, USAID Investment Promotion Activity, Augmentor, Impact Investment Exchange, and the Elahi Group also participated in the round.
Sehat Kahani’s B2C platform allows individual consumers to access doctors, labs, and e-pharmacy services online on either a pay-as-you-go or subscription-based model. Sehat Kahani also runs 62 e-health clinics nationwide.
The firm has a B2B arm that serves nearly 800 corporate clients. Through this, Sehat Kahani gives employees and their families access to online doctors, outpatient department management, and e-pharmacy services through their employer or insurance company.
The firm’s business has grown over 141% year on year in the last three years, “overcoming the myth that telemedicine was only beneficial during Covid, as we have seen 5x cumulative growth in the post-Covid era,” Aga said.
For now, the business aims to become profitable by FYE 2026 on the back of sustained growth, the company told Tech in Asia.
The fresh funding will be used to invest in tech, hire human resources, and expand outside Pakistan into the Middle East and North Africa region.
The startup raised US$1 million in its pre-series A round in 2021.
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Editing by Miguel Cordon and Jaclyn Tiu
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