Bengaluru: Docbrella, a digital healthcare platform, has received a ₹50 crore investment from its chairman, Santosh Agarwal, to support its next phase of growth.
The company said the funds will be allocated across technology and artificial intelligence (40%), hospital partnerships (25%), marketing (20%), operations (10%), and research and development (5%). Docbrella aims to expand into 11 major Indian cities by the end of 2025 and capture 15–20% of the digitally active urban healthcare market by 2028.
Docbrella offers services including surgical price benchmarking, hospital and doctor comparisons, insurance integration, ambulance access, nursing, and medical equipment rentals. The platform also features a secure health record storage system called Medi-Locker and AI-driven predictive health tools.
At the announcement in Bengaluru, Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said the platform could help patients make better-informed decisions. “Many people today make critical health decisions with incomplete information, leading to exploitation and unnecessary high costs. Docbrella seeks to change this by securing patient data with AI, providing transparency, and empowering informed choices,” he said.
Agarwal described the initiative as an effort to improve transparency and accessibility in healthcare. “With AI at the core, we are going beyond digitizing healthcare to truly humanizing it by giving patients trust, clarity and control,” he said.
Chief Growth Officer Joydeep Biswas added that the platform is designed to address challenges such as limited transparency, unclear treatment packages, and fragmented patient data. “Our aim is to bridge this trust gap between patients and providers,” he said.
Docbrella is targeting India’s urban healthcare market, estimated at USD 8 billion, with features including real-time price comparison, verified provider credentials, and AI-powered decision support.