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Swaastha - Reimagining Healthcare

Anant National University is launching a dedicated Healthcare Accelerator Programme, Swaastha in association with India Accelerator (IA) to support innovative start-ups in this sector. The objective is to setup a tripod approach to make start-ups, academic institutions, and industries collaborate, driving innovations and solving practical challenges faced by industries and society. We believe that this accelerator can make an impactful contribution to the healthcare industry by solving core industry challenges and bringing innovation to market faster through Industry-Academia-Start-up collaboration.

Who Can Apply?

Start-ups registered in India with a solution that is deployed or deployment-ready.

Focus Area

  • Solution for Drug discovery & development (drug discovery platforms, AI Drug Design, Data Analytics & Big Data)
  • New generation Diagnostics (Novel Biomarkers, Advanced imaging, nanotechnologies for diagnostics and genetic testing)
  • Digital Health & Wellbeing solutions (digital therapeutics, comprehensive digital health & platform in the workspace, mental health solutions, patient engagement & gamification)
  • Last-mile delivery, Optical Dispensing, Genome Sequencing, IVF, Fetal and Neonatal Monitoring and AI-driven prognosis, Diagnosis, and Interventions

Mentors

Anjan Bose

Anjan Bose

Former Founding Secretary General, NATHEALTH, Ex-President, Philips Healthcare and Consumer Lifestyle

Mukul Bagga

Mukul Bagga

MD, Medicom Healthcare, India, Ex Novartis, Quest Diagnostics, J&J and Ranbaxy

Deepak Naik

Deepak Naik

MD, Health N’U’ Therapeutics Ex Ranbaxy, Eisai Pharmaceuticals and Wockhardt

Munish Bhatia

Munish Bhatia

Co-Founder, India Accelerator, CEO, Bharat Ventures

Nandita Raval

Nandita Raval

Co-Founder and Director at Kaivalya Education Foundation and Aspirational Bharat Collaborative, Piramal Foundation

Maninder Bawa

Maninder Bawa

Co-founder and CTO IA Labs, Ex Software Consultant at McKinsey & Co.

Milind Chitale

Milind Chitale

Associate Professor, School of Design and Director, Makerspace MDes, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Arindam Mukhopadhyay

Arindam Mukhopadhyay

Partner at India Accelerator and Advisor to the Board at IntelliBuddies

Deepak Sharma

Deepak Sharma

Co-founder India Accelerator and IA Labs

Program Offerings

Dates to Remember

Aarambh Incubation Centre

The centre promotes entrepreneurial spirit using design thinking to devise innovative solutions for problems across domains. Supported by the Student Startup & Innovation Policy (SSIP) of the Government of Gujarat, Aarambh helps young innovators to prototype their ideas, get mentorship, interact with investors, government and non-government agencies and create an enterprise.

Team

Nikhil Sulthar

Nikhil Sulthar

Lead Partnership at India Accelerator

Srishti Arora

Srishti Arora

Lead Corporate Innovation at India Accelerator

Vani Madan

Vani Madan

Lead Healthcare Vertical at India Accelerator

Dr Dhara Thakore

Dr Dhara Thakore

Head of Aarambh Incubation Centre and Office of Career Services; PhD, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Dhaval Darjee

Dhaval Darjee

Incubation Manager, Aarambh Incubation Centre

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