Lybrate

Lybrate is a mobile healthcare technology company that developed an online platform to connect doctors and patients.^[1][2][3] The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Delhi, India.^[4][5] The service allows patients to connect with the doctor online through a video call or schedule an appointment and can get info about medication.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}

Lybrate

Company type	Private
Industry	Healthcare
Founders	Saurabh Arora Rahul Narang
Headquarters	New Delhi , India

History

The service was founded in July 2013 by Saurabh Arora and formerly worked at Facebook in the United States^[11][12] and Rahul Narang,^[13] former professionals of Snapdeal. Arora^[14] and Narang teamed up to create an online platform to connect patients with doctors and eliminate self-medication in India.^[15][16][17] They started building the company with their own funds and in August 2014, they raised $1.23 million seed funding from Nexus Venture Partners.^[18][19] In July 2015, Lybrate raised $10.2 million Series A funding led by Tiger Global,^[20] Nexus and Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons^[21] to scale technology and operations, develop products and recruit talent.^[22][23][24] In 2015, Lybrate collaborated with Indian Medical Association as digital partner to educate doctors, incorporate technology in their practice for communicating with patients.^[25][26][27]

Products and services

Lybrate was initially launched to connect people with healthcare professionals, allowing them to book appointments with doctors using the web portal and mobile application.^[28][29] In May 2016, Lybrate launch Lybrate Lab+,^[30] an online lab testing service that allows a patient sample to be collected right from their home, with results later shared online.^[31][32] It also provides patient management services for doctors, and remote doctor-patient consultancy.^[33][34] The service currently has over 1 lakh (100,000) certified doctors available and connect patients with medical care professionals.^{[35][36][37] [38]}