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CUROFY
Diagnose and cure faster
Pawan did his B.Tech in Electrical
Engineering from IIT Delhi. He
worked with Deutsche Bank for 2
years in Mumbai and now leads the
Product and Technology teams at
Curofy. Nipun Goyal, a B.Tech from
IIT Delhi with major in Electrical
Engineering and minor in Business
Management has worked with
Rothschild India where he handled
mergers and acquisitions across
various business services industries
including IT, logistics, transportation
etc. He is passionate about making
digital health communication easier
and likes to interact with various
healthcare stakeholders. Mudit is a
dual degree graduate in chemical
engineering from IIT Delhi and Axtira
Inc. on health informatics and analytics
for an year before starting Curofy. He
has been an ardent speaker at various
leading summits. The major ones
include VC circle healthcare
investment summit-2015, annual
conference of family physicians 2015
and Indian Association of
Dermatologists, Venerologists and
Leprologists 2014. Born and brought
up in a family of doctors and an
engineer by himself, he could see the
inefficiencies that exist in the everyday
life of a doctor owing to absence of a
simplified technology product which
can help them in their professional and
academic life.
Coordinating and Connecting
Doctors
Curofy is a medical case discussion
platform for doctors. It is now the
largest social network of over 2,20,000
verified doctors in India. Doctors are
December 2017
discussing patient cases with their
peers to provide extremely quick and
better diagnosis to their patients. The
platform is satisfying the hunger for
knowledge and results in better
outcomes of the doctors. With doctor
to patient ratio being 1:1700 being
extremely low in India, Curofy aims to
bridge this gap with the help of
technology. Curofy envisions that
giving doctors a platform to coordinate
and collaborate will help solve many
cases and save lives thus, making India
a safer place to live in.
The platform allows medical suppliers
notify relevant doctors about new
medical drug samples, device demos,
webinars, events, and surveys. The
company generates revenue through
medical suppliers by connecting
content-based leads to target doctors.
Curofy has received a pre-Series. A
round of funding led by US-based VC
firm RoundGlass Partners and other
angel investors.
To ensure the platform remains spam
free, the team makes sure that only
relevant content is pushed to doctors.
Less a social network, and more a
learning and collaboration platform,
helps physicians to stay ahead by
interacting with and learning from
experts and peers. With Curofy, doctors
can easily find other doctors, call them
with a single tap, and connect to
collaborate on patient cases.
their Google Launchpad initiative.
With daily interactions between
doctors (more than 250,000 cases
already), it has prepared disease trends
reports, social listening tools, various
statistics that can help the industry
make a more informed decision.
Curofy has won several accolades for
innovations including getting
international recognition VivaTech
Paris (“Next generation learning tools
for HCPs”) and Google LaunchPad
(San Fransisco), Medtech Investing
(London). It has also been featured as
one of the top 5 android apps for
doctors by TOI.
Working Towards a Bright Future
According to experts, in the healthcare
industry, which is projected to reach
$280 billion by 2020, the scope of
digital marketing is increasing
enormously. Amidst such projections,
doctor-centric healthcare platforms are
also riding the changing trends in
India. According to the platform, it
aims to keep improving its core
offering for doctors and help them in
all aspects of their practice, including
knowledge, reputation, finance, and
resources. Curofy plans to conquer the
Indian market first before going on to
other markets. It has already started
running pilots in Turkey, Saudi Arabia,
Lebanon, and Nigeria. It plans to have
1 million doctors on the app in the next
two years.
Widely Accepted Innovations
Curofy has been recognized by Google
and is among few chosen startup for
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