Healthcare startup Virohan, which says it is the first company in India to give vocational training for paramedics, has raised additional funding from Rebright Partners to top up its Series A round to $3 million.
Virohan said it will use the funds to scale up more than 160 campuses in India and strengthen the country’s healthcare by creating a allied workforce in the Covid-19 crisis. It will also be using the funding to improve its proprietary Blended Learning Technology platform, a virtual reality-based practical training. The platform includes on-demand online training through bite sized videos and real time quizzes and gamification. This enables its partner colleges and students to switch from in classroom to online learning.
“With this funding, we plan to educate over 1 million students by 2025, through our best-in-class, Blended Learning platform,” said Kunaal Dudeja, CEO & Co-founder.
The startup said it has trained over 5,500 people since the pandemic started last year and it will almost double its student registrations from 1,100 a year to 2,000.
"Virohan's full-stack offering brings in key stakeholders and partners in the ecosystem together on a common platform to solve the challenges faced by students, trainers, hospitals and healthcare innovators,” said Brij Bhasin, General Partner, Rebright Partners states,
As part of the total fundraise, the Series A and seed rounds were raised from Rebright Partners, elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization, the Singh Family Trusts, advised by Artha Impact, Yunus Social Business, Better Capital and Keiretsu Forum.
Dear Reader,
Business Standard has always strived hard to provide up-to-date information and commentary on developments that are of interest to you and have wider political and economic implications for the country and the world. Your encouragement and constant feedback on how to improve our offering have only made our resolve and commitment to these ideals stronger. Even during these difficult times arising out of Covid-19, we continue to remain committed to keeping you informed and updated with credible news, authoritative views and incisive commentary on topical issues of relevance.
We, however, have a request.
As we battle the economic impact of the pandemic, we need your support even more, so that we can continue to offer you more quality content. Our subscription model has seen an encouraging response from many of you, who have subscribed to our online content. More subscription to our online content can only help us achieve the goals of offering you even better and more relevant content. We believe in free, fair and credible journalism. Your support through more subscriptions can help us practise the journalism to which we are committed.
Support quality journalism and subscribe to Business Standard.
Digital Editor
RECOMMENDED FOR YOU