Health-tech platform Docbrella launched in Bengaluru

Bengaluru: Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao on Friday launched Docbrella, a next-generation health tech platform, in Bengaluru.

Docbrella's chairman Santosh Agrawal announced a fund infusion of Rs 50 crore. Agarwal, who has built brands such as Synecare and MMS Holdings, said Docbrella provides surgical price benchmarking, hospital and doctor comparisons, and integrated access to insurance, ambulance, nursing, and medical equipment rentals, alongside a secure digital health locker and AI-driven decision support ecosystem.

The Rs 50 crore commitment from Agarwal will be allocated across technology and AI (40 per cent), hospital partnerships (25 per cent), outreach (20 per cent), operations (10 per cent), and R&D (5 per cent).

With this, Docbrella aims to cover the top 11 Indian cities by the end of 2025 and capture 15–20% of the country's digitally active urban healthcare market by 2028.

Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said, "Docbrella is an umbrella platform uniting all aspects of healthcare consultation. 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."

Agrawal said, "With AI at the core, we are going beyond digitising healthcare to truly humanising it by giving patients trust, clarity and control. As India’s digital health market grows from $8.8 billion in 2024 to nearly $48 billion by 2033, the future of healthcare will be defined by trust, technology and patient empowerment.”

Joydeep Biswas, Chief Growth Officer of Docbrella, said, the country's healthcare ecosystem still struggles with limited transparency, unverified provider credentials, unclear treatment packages, and fragmented patient data. "With Docbrella, our aim is to bridge this trust gap between patients and providers," he said.