DigiSparsh raises seed funding from Silicon Valley based fund GoAheadVentures

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DigiSparsh, an Indian fintech focused on healthcare lending has announced securing a seed round from Silicon Valley-based investor GoAhead Ventures. Co-founded by Saurabh Soni and Akhilesh Gandhi in May 2020, DigiSparsh offers lending solutions including insurance receivable financing, supplier financing and patient financing to the entire value chain of the healthcare ecosystem.

The distribution strategy of tying up with healthcare aggregators to source the end customers makes them very unique in healthcare lending. They have already tied up with seven aggregators, onboarded 14 hospitals, have funded loans to patients, pharmacies and healthcare merchants in more than 50 locations across India.

Saurabh Soni, co-founder & CEO, DigiSparsh, said, “With this funding, we plan to strengthen our team and also widen our reach - targeting to tie up with 50 aggregators, on-board 100 hospitals by the end of this year and 500 hospitals by the end of the next year. We will be razor-focused in covering the length and breadth of the healthcare ecosystem which has a huge potential and the current pandemic situation has further increased the size of the unmet demand for lending products which we need to cater to.”

Founders Of DigiSparsh Are Buoyant With Seed Round Funding
Defining the company’s edge, Akhilesh Gandhi, co-founder and CTO, DigiSprash, added, “We have built products that are tailor-made for the health care sector where hospitals, supplier or patients can use them to apply for lending products and these are easily integrable with hospitals’ core systems or with our aggregator's platform. This platform is built on microservices and blockchain to easily onboard borrowers at the front end & lending partners at the back end.”

Prior to embarking on their entrepreneurial journey, Saurabh has worked with groups like GE, Tata Teleservices, Idea Cellular and was also the CEO of Essel Finance Digital Business; while Akhilesh has worked with companies like Tech Mahindra, Sandisk and Federal Bank of San Francisco.

Phil Brady Managing Partner, GoAhead Ventures, said “The DigiSparsh approach to healthcare financing really impressed us here at GoAhead. The founders of the company come with a strong pedigree and a proven track record of scaling businesses. We are very excited to be a part of this journey and cater to the $135 billion healthcare market in India through highly innovative products which DigiSparsh offers for the entire value chain of the healthcare ecosystem.”

GoAhead Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm founded by three Stanford alumni with over $100M in AUM. GoAhead focuses on investments into early-stage technology companies around the globe, deploying roughly half of its capital outside of the US into geographies including India, Singapore, Israel and more.

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