We target firms with holistic healthcare view: Quadria Capital co-founder

In an interview, Amit Varma explains what sets his healthcare-focused fund apart from other players in the market

Quadria Capital, set up in 2012, is a healthcare focused fund operating in India, with investments in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam. Its co-founder Dr Amit Varma spent ten years in the US before getting back to India in1999 to join Dr Devi Shetty's team, managing his Intensive care units at Manipal Hospitals and Narayana Hrudayalaya.

However, the lure of business and not just clinical delivery brought him to Fortis Healthcare. He joined in 2003 and over the next ten years gathered what he calls a crash course in business management, getting a taste of everything from physician recruitments,