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Cancer Care Aggregator Onco.com Raises Fund Worth $7m

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Team Startup CityCancer care aggregator Onco.com raised series A funding of $7 million led by Accel, Chiratae Ventures and Dream Incubator. The Bengaluru-based startup, founded in 2016 by Rashi Jain and Amit Jotwani which aims to utilize the funds to expand its customer base and scale up operations globally. It endeavors to become a one-stop platform for all cancer-related needs for patients and their families. The online platform provides advice to patients through its credible sources of information that guide the patients to the right treatment plan, doctors, and hospitals.

Onco.com is focused on building a cancer ecosystem that the patients can tap into any time in their
treatment journey. The platform currently offers treatment advice and care management to cancer patients across 18 countries. It has a network of over 1,500 oncologists and over 500 hospitals and labs, allow patients to get personalized advice.

Barath Shankar Subramanian, Partner, Accel India, said: “It has been an incredibly fulfilling journey to see Onco.com grow from a concept to a clinically recognized technology cancer care platform that offers full-stack support to cancer patients and caregivers in India and emerging markets. Given the hugely increasing cancer disease burden and severely skewed oncologists-to-patient ratio in the country, we believe that there is tremendous work to be done in cancer care delivery. It is clear to us that the best way for effective healthcare to progress is by building awareness, collaborations, and communities on a patient-centric and network aggregated business model, which Onco.com does holistically.”

Munehiko Eto, MD of Dream Incubator India, said, “Onco.com is not only a technology company but a healthcare company. DI has extensive expertise and network in the healthcare space in Japan and SEA and will support Onco.com in international expansion. In India, we have made 20+ investments in the space of health, finance, media, entertainment, and other areas. This is our fifth investment in the health space in India.”