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Health-tech firm WelcomeCure bags fresh funds from Bollywood couple

By Shweta Sharma

  • 20 Jul 2018
Health-tech firm WelcomeCure bags fresh funds from Bollywood couple
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Mumbai-based WelcomeCure Pvt. Ltd, an online homeopathic healthcare platform, has raised an undisclosed amount from Bollywood couple Riteish and Genelia Deshmukh and LC Singh, chief executive of IT services company Nihilent Technologies, a report in a financial daily said.

The startup will use the capital for infrastructure, team building and brand promotion, The Economic Times reported.

The company plans to raise an additional $5 million in a follow-on and will appoint the Bollywood couple as its brand ambassadors, Punit Desai, co-founder and CEO of WelcomeCure told ET.

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Welcome Cure Pvt. Ltd was founded in 2014 by Desai, a serial entrepreneur who has previously worked with the Konark Group, and Jawahar J Shah, a homeopathic practitioner, technocrat, educationalist and academician.

WelcomeCure caters to the alternative medicine segment. Through its subscription-based service, it provides consultation services through video chat, live chat, Skype, telephonic and email interactions with physicians.

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