Virohan, a health education startup based in Gurugram, announced that it raised USD 3 million in Series A round. The round was led by Rebright Partners on 17th May 2021.
Last year in August, the company raised USD 2.8 Million in a seed round, which was led by Elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization and the Singh family trust with the participation of Yunus Social Business, Keirestu Foundation, Better Capital, and Artha Impact.
According to a statement released by the company, the newly raised fund will be used to expand to more than 160 new campuses. It has an aim to strengthen the healthcare system of India, with the workforce of trained alliance to tackle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The funding will also aid Virohan to expand its custody Blended Learning Technology Platform with VR based practical training.
Words from investors –
“Rebright Partners is excited to partner with Virohan to address the critical gaps in trained Healthcare Paraprofessionals in India. Virohan’s full-stack offering brings in key stakeholders and partners in the ecosystem together on a common platform to solve the challenges faced by students, trainers, hospitals and healthcare innovators.” – Brij Bhasin, General Partner, Rebright Partners.
About the company –
Virohan was started and established by Kunaal Dudeja (CEO), Nalin Saluja(CTO) and Archit Jayaswal (CFO). The company fills the gap between the demand of industry and workforce skills by adopting end to end proprietary ‘technology skill stack’ to start job prediction, standardise processes and aggregate training across the student journey from change to training content to placement.
During this COVID-19 pandemic, the company claims to have trained over 5,500 students and is engaged to file up almost double of the students enrolled. The number of students enrolled in a year is 1100 and its target is to reach across 2000. It states that nearly 50 per cent of the students are female.
Words from the CEO
“Virohan has always envisioned becoming the industry leader through our mission to provide a demand-driven and up-to-date curriculum. With this funding, we plan to educate over 1 million students by 2025, through our best-in-class, Blended Learning platform.” – Kunaal Dudeja, CEO, Virohan.
“This funding is not just going to help us expand operations but will also fuel the Vision and morale of those at Virohan to strive even harder towards our goal and successfully create an army of the skilled paramedical workforce for the Indian healthcare system to fight against the ongoing pandemic,”- he added.
