C O V E R S T O R Y
The Silk Route
Fibroheal Woundcare
Innovating silk based biomedical products to treat wounds
Company : Fibroheal Woundcare Location : Bengaluru Year of Inception : 2017
Founders : Vivek Mishra , Bharat Tandon and Subramanian Shivaraman
Investors : DBT , BIRAC , CCAMP , and KBITS
Latest Funding : Undisclosed funds from KITVEN & existing investors
Targeted Revenue : INR 125 Crore in next few years .
Bengaluru based Fibroheal Woundcare is the first company from India to have commercialized silk protein based wound management solutions for acute , chronic , traumatic and post operative wounds . With its promising woundcare technology derived from silk , the company is putting its unique efforts to develop innovative , low-cost medical products from silk .
Fibroheal is working on the non-textile application of silk and utilizing the byproducts of its production process . The company offers a wide range of products in different forms such as film , sheet , mesh , foam , powder , ointment , and gel to treat all types of wounds such as clean wounds , noninfected wounds , infected wounds , difficult to heal and slow or nonhealing wounds .
Incorporated on 6th April 2017 by Vivek Mishra , Bharat Tandon and Subramanian Shivaraman , Fibroheal aspires to be one of the most comprehensive wound care Indian companies catering to the entire wound care continuum . The company has raised US $ 1.31 million in seed funding , including debt funding from Government of India ’ s biotechnology industry research assistance council . It
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BioVoiceNews | November / December 2023