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Healthcare 5 min read

A ₹11 IV Set Billed At ₹325 Lands On Someone's Health Insurance Claim

The finding is not new, and that is the most useful thing about it. In 2018 the NPPA examined billing at four large private hospitals in Delhi and found margins of up to 1,737 per cent across drugs, consumables, devices …

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Funding 6 min read

VerifAIX Raises $5M for the Part of Chip Design That Eats Most of the Budget

Most people picture chip development as design: engineers drawing architectures, laying out logic, deciding what the processor will do. That is the smaller half of the work. The larger half is proving the thing actually …

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Funding 6 min read

TRUE ARTIS Raises ₹11.4 Crore, Where the Surgeons Are Customers Too

The word doing the work in this announcement is not aesthetic. It is ICU. India does not have a shortage of places offering cosmetic procedures. It has a shortage of places where something going wrong is survivable. Cosm…

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Funding 6 min read

Slayd Raises ₹1.5 Crore to Sell the Clothes Its Own Data Says Will Sell

There is a pattern running through Indian consumer startups this month, and Slayd is the clearest example of it. Discovery platforms do not make money. They do the expensive work of helping someone decide what to buy, an…

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Funding 6 min read

Firi Raises $3M on a Bet That 300,000 Beauty Products Is the Problem, Not the Point

Almost every beauty platform in India is built for the person who enjoys beauty. Firi is built for the person who does not. That sounds like a small distinction and it is the whole company. Nykaa, Amazon, Tira and the re…

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