Praan Well being, a lifestyle-first power care platform for fogeys aged 50 and above, has raised Rs 8.5 crore in a seed funding spherical led by Rainmatter Investments with participation from WEH Ventures and angel investors, together with Alakh Pandey and Prateek Maheshwari (PhysicsWallah) and Arjun Vaidya, amongst others.

Based in 2024 by Navneeth Ramprasad, a former product chief at Netflix and Meta, Praan Well being goals to handle the rising problem of power lifestyle-related circumstances amongst India’s growing older inhabitants.

The startup stated that greater than 90% of Indians over 60 stay with such circumstances, but care stays fragmented and hospital-driven. Praan Well being goals to alter this by offering households, particularly millennials and older Gen Z in India and overseas, with a structured, science-backed, lifestyle-first system that helps their dad and mom regain power, mobility and management over their well being.

With the brand new funding, Praan plans to strengthen its product and expertise capabilities, increase its medical and training groups, and increase its service supply throughout India.

The startup has just lately launched its cell app to permits younger adults to handle their dad and mom’ well being journeys, from blood check uploads and danger scores to weekly progress updates and physician consultations. It can additionally use the funds to construct distinctive, first-of-its-kind well being centres in key areas, together with Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi-NCR.

“Healthcare for our dad and mom shouldn’t begin on the hospital — it ought to begin at residence. Praan turns power care into each day habits of motion, power, and evidence-based vitamin. The freshly infused capital will assist us deepen our medical and expertise capabilities, scale our programmes throughout India, and make Praan a family identify,” stated Ramprasad

“Whereas our finish customers are dad and mom, the platform additionally permits their youngsters to remain knowledgeable, observe progress, and stay carefully concerned of their dad and mom’ well being journey. It’s a step towards making preventive, strength-driven care accessible to each family, so ageing in India could be outlined by vitality, not vulnerability,” he added.

Nithin Kamath, Rainmatter & Zerodha, CEO, stated, “There are 150 million individuals over the age of 60 in India, i.e., roughly 11% of our inhabitants. This poses important challenges for the healthcare system as extra elders will want specialised care. Most of them are experiencing some power well being points, and that is the place an answer like Praan brings influence at scale. We’re excited to help the group at Praan, who’re delivering power care options for our elders.”

Rohit Krishna, Accomplice, WEH Ventures, added, “Praan is fixing a really actual downside that each Indian within the workforce faces – easy methods to care higher for our dad and mom as they age. The group’s strategy combines medical depth with on a regular basis practicality, making long-term well being administration each easy and deeply private. It’s a mission that may contact thousands and thousands of houses, and Navneeth’s readability of function provides us immense confidence in Praan’s capability to redefine how India approaches preventive and power care.”