Healthcare locator start-up Practo expands to 8 cities

Healthcare facility locator start-up Practo today said it has expanded its presence to eight cities to enable consumers to find the nearest diagnostic centres for specific medical tests.
Practo offers a platform to locate the diagnostic centres for curative, preventive, fitness and wellness segments.
The new product will be available in eight cities to begin with -- Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Nashik and Thiruvananthapuram -- and will expand to 35 cities and to some international markets in the coming months, it said in a statement.
Practo said it has nearly 4,000 labs listed on its application, across the eight cities including the largest chains such as Thyrocare, Suburban Diagnostics, SRL Labs, Metropolis among others.

Co-founded by two engineers -- Shashank ND (chief executive) and Abhinav Lal (technology chief) -- Practo raised USD 30 million in February from Matrix Partners, Sequoia Capital and venture debt provider InnoVen Capital.