Parene Healthcare

Parene Healthcare will provide maternal child healthcare services in Sierra Leone. Our services will
improve quality of life, and reduce maternal and infant mortality. Our affordable maternal child
healthcare clinics, birthing centers, and health posts will focus on families who may not seek care
because of cost, transportation and confidentiality concerns. Our goal is to keep maternal and child
healthcare cost low, and maintain high quality.
IndiBlogger: A Rs 1 crore venture
For most people, blogging serves as a good pastime, a forum to air or read views and opinions.
However, for four yuppies from Chennai, harnessing the power of blogs has proved to be a moneyminting venturea Rs 1 crore business, to be precise.
Launched in August 2007, IndiBlogger.in started as a free blogging platform for Indians. However, the
foundersRenie Ravin, Karthik DR, Vineet Rajan and Anoop Johnsonhad a bigger game plan: to
mobilise the blogosphere, a nascent field at the time, so that companies and brands could engage
with their customers.
Luckily for the founders, they found an angel investor in their friend Nitin Bindal, who chipped in with
the seed capital of Rs 32 lakh. The money was spent on building infrastructure and marketing.
Here's how IndiBlogger works: Registering one's blog is free of charge, but members must publish at
least five blog posts to continue to be a part of the community. The company's eight-strong team
handles support and moderation from Chennai and Bangalore. The revenue comes from connecting
brands and bloggers via unique blogging contests and meets, which are organised periodically across
the country.
Today, their clients include Lakme, Castrol, Apollo Hospitals, Mahindra & Mahindra, Cleartrip,
Vodafone, Dove, Samsung, Surf Excel and Fiat, to name a few.
HelpingDoc.com: Allows patients to get online appointment with doctors
The company was co-founded by Amit Bansal, Dr Hemant Singhal, Srinivas Gattamneni and UKbased Julian Hall, in May 2012. It was conceptualised in August the previous year, when all four were
attending the Entrepreneurship Summer School at the London Business School, their alma mater, till
May 2011.
Their proposal was shortlisted as the top 30 ventures worth nurturing, so the four decided to take the
idea a step further by researching the Indian market as their launch pad. In November 2011, the
quartet pooled together a seed capital of Rs 85 lakh, drawn from their personal savings, and
registered the company as Helping Doc Private Limited.
Here's how the website works: search for a doctor based on a criterion such as health problem. The
portal displays a list of doctors and their location on map. You can narrow down the list on the basis of
experience, consultation fee, distance and availability. Once you zero in on a doctor and convenient
time, you can make an appointment and get a confirmation free of charge. The team has already
collaborated with 800 doctors, the website is getting 1,500 hits daily, and the 20-employee firm is
confident of a turnover of Rs 70 lakh.
Zao Foods: Serving health food, earning profit
Samosas, kachoris, choley-bhaturey/ kulchey... No matter how much we relish our traditional
unhealthy savouries, there is the nagging need to eat nutritious food. To cater to this growing
awareness of eating healthy is MitaliKalra's year-old Mediterranean cafe, Crostini, tucked away in a
corner of the HauzKhas Village in south Delhi.
The idea of starting her own cafe took root in 2010. After completing her MBA in finance from INSEAD
in France, in 2008, she spent a year working in Dubai and Singapore, handling private equity

investments in oil and gas, and shipping. About a year on, her craving for healthy fare spawned a
business idea: a chain of health food cafes in India. So, in December 2011, she left her cushy
investment banking job, pumped in Rs 14 lakh from her personal savings, and registered her
company name as Zao Foods Private Limited.
A year into operations, her turnover is Rs 25-30 lakh.
Threesixtyone Degrees: Anirban Haldar and Rajesh's Rs 60 lakh design company
When Anirban Haldar and Rajesh, teamed up to launch Threesixtyone Degrees in 2006, little did they
know that they were heading for a bad recession. However, the design company not only survived the
downturn, but has emerged strongerthe company's revenue for 2013-14 is Rs 60 lakh.
The duo, graduates from the National Institute of Fashion Technology (Anirban from Kolkata, Rajesh
from Delhi) wanted to be entrepreneurs despite their non-business backgrounds, but since they
wanted work experience, both started their careers as assistants to reputed designers.
Before long, their paths crossed at PantaloonsRajesh had been working in the men's wear
department of the lifestyle retail behemoth since 2001, and Haldar joined its ethnic design team in
early 2004. Armed with Rs 5 lakh from their savings, and backed by eight embroiderers and
designers, the two set up shop at Oshiwara, Mumbai. However, they continued with their day jobs.
By the end of 2007, the duo had managed to pull off a dream launch for their brand 'Ra'. They
unveiled their collection at the Lakme India Fashion Week and it was warmly received by the design
fraternity and the press. Then came the recession and the brand was in trouble. That's when the duo
decided to focus on their other vertical, which had been set up along with the fashion line.
Perfiniti
The idea: Psychometric tests to check compatibility of couples
Business model: Rs 4,000 for the online test plus coaching classes that can cost between Rs 5,000 a
session and Rs 50,000 for a package
Gaurav Sareen, 42, a hotel industry professional and a police officer in Australia, now in his third
innings, is trying his hand at relationships. More specifically checking the compatibility quotient of
couples.
Sareen came back to India in May 2010, after quitting as a behavioural specialist and a commander in
Sydney Police and co-founded Perfiniti, a fivepeople bricks-and-mortar start-up in June 2013
Perfiniti puts couples through a psychometric test (sourced from Extended Disc, Finland) each
taking it individually that comprises a set of 24 questions. The answers form 100 to 800 behaviour
traits like I am a good listener, I don't like watching TV late in the night or am I obsessed about
which toothpaste to use and so on.
For each answer a person gets points from +5 to -5. An algorithm checks the consistency of response
and establishes the level of compatibility and understanding between couples.

crediHealth.com
The idea: Crowdsourcing of medical opinion
Business model: Generate revenues from commissions and subscription fees from hospitals and
standalone centres

CrediHealth.com, started in January 2014 by Ravi Virmani, a former MD of Hewitt Associates India
and COO of Max, is solving an existing pain point how to look for a good healthcare provider by
seeking the opinion of crowds.
An 18-month stint at Max Healthcare helped him understand the issues that patients have to deal
with, like finding an empathetic and the right doctor, and the costs involved.
An industry veteran and founding managing director of Hewitt Associates India and former COO of
Max Healthcare, Virmani sees CrediHealth solving the people's problem of looking for the right doctor
or a diagnostic centre, besides being an additional sales channel for the hospitals.
While the model helps a patient crowdsource a doctor, be it a cardiologist or a dentist, users can also
seek second opinions from doctors at any of the registered hospitals.
CrediHealth claims a robust business model like taking a cut from hospitals for business generated
through the site, in what it calls performance incentive. Another is a subscription fee from standalone
centres like a hair transplant centre or a dental clinic that registers with CrediHealth. But the site is yet
to make money.
FolksVagn
The idea: Commercial carpooling
Business model: Via an app, users can book a ride on a car on their route, paying Rs 3.50 a km.
FolksVagn takes 50 paise and the rest goes to the car owner
Sameer Khanna launched a survey on social media on whether carpooling managed by a third party
will work and to understand the challenges of sharing rides. About 2,500 people gave a thumbs up to
the need for a third party to manage carpooling.
The result is FolksVagn, an app and a website, with a catch line: 'Getting there, together'.
In the UK and Europe, Lyft.com offers carpools as a service and in the US ZimRide sets up carpools
within large corporations. FolksVagn provides the system and manages the backend that involves
registering car owners and passengers. It's a C2C service, where people using the app can register
their cars for pooling.
For those looking for rides, the system works much like a pre-paid mobile services. They load, say, Rs
1,000 a month and can use it to pay for the rides. The passenger could be on a different car each
day.
She gets an alert on people offering a carpool on her route and if she 'accepts' the 'invite' on the app,
the car owner picks her up. The passenger pays Rs 3.50 per km. FolksVagn takes 50 paise per km
and the rest goes to the car owner.
Shadi-e-khas
The idea: Business software for wedding management
Business model: Three packages one free and the other two priced at Rs 2,100 & Rs 3,100
Shaadi-e-Khaas breaks the herculean wedding planning exercise into tasks such as managing the
guest list with the help of the guest manager, a task manager for assigning tasks amongst the
vendors, e-mail invites and automatic e-mail reminders at specific intervals.
It connects with a predefined list of wedding services providers and maintains a guest list with
information on accommodation/travel details and an RSVP tracker.
The bookkeeping section helps maintain accounts of the wedding spends. The tool also offers space
for uploading videos and photographs. Bharat Kanodia, who launched the software roughly two years

ago, says he was inspired by his brother's wedding to create a system to ease the wedding
management process.
The Shaadi-e-Khaas software comes in three packages silver is for free and includes the guest
manager, online wedding invitations, with a 'wedsite' manager (a compilation for all the wedding
website features).
Next, the gold package enables multiple events such as mehendi, wedding day, reception and others
to be handled with event manager, vendor manager and costs Rs 2,100. The platinum package
consists of the budget-keeping section, notepad manager and other online managerial features and
comes for Rs 3,100.
REPORT BEE
A report card is generally dreaded by students or considered boring with just marks and comments. At
least until Anantharaman Mani, CEO of Report Bee, decided to change this common perception by
changing the very concept and look of the report card.
Anant started Report Bee in Chennai two years ago with the aim of adding the element of fun and
creativity to the report cards. A report card by the company does not have just marks but also features
comments on the strengths and weaknesses of the child, average performance and even health
details of a student. Innovations such as colour-coding, comparison with previous performance, visual
representation and school news feeds, are made to make the report card special.
Similar to a facebook timeline , they went on to create a report card that is a beautiful visual
presentation of every students holistic progress and achievements; a report card that every student
will love, parents treasure and schools benefit from.
An alumnus of IIM Bangalore, Anant quit the corporate world and yearned to do something in the
education sector.
His love for data and mathematics enabled him to start this company.
With a traditional report card, a teacher will know how well the student is performing in one particular
subject, but with reportbee the teacher will know how well the student is doing in other subjects too in
the preceding few months. This will help them understand the students capabilities better.
Report Bee cards are now being implemented in 20 top schools in Chennai and 15 more schools will
adopt it soon. The cards have also been selected to be implemented in five schools run by the
Chennai Corporation
Jibon Health Technologies
They are a group of young professionals tackling global health problems through creative engineering.
They are focussing their efforts on helping vulnerable populations that carry the largest burden of
disease yet are unable to access proper medical care. They believe that many of the health issues
plaguing developing countries can be solved with simple appropriate technologies. Tampostat is our
first invention and it targets maternal health.
SimPrints has scooped $250000 from winning a highly competitive seed grant from the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundations Saving Lives at Birth competition and the grant will be part-matched to
the tune of $150000) by Cambridge-based ARM ltd, whose technology is incorporated in over 95 per
cent of all the worlds mobile phones.
SimPrints was one of 30 winners of the Grand Challenge competition at the annual Saving Lives at
Birth Development Xchange announced on Friday. The challenge was a global call for
groundbreaking, scalable solutions to infant and maternal mortality around the time of birth.