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Healthtech startup Cent has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round through a combination of debt and equity, led by Blume Ventures and existing investor South Park Commons. The round also saw participation from individual investors, including Arun Sarin, former CEO of Vodafone; Srinivas Narayanan, former CTO (B2B) of OpenAI; and Sharath Narayana, Krishna Sridhar, and Aprameya Radhakrishna. Cent said it will use the funding for R&D and to build out its AI, engineering, and clinical teams. Cent was founded by Shashank ND, Arpit Garg, and Anshul Khandelwal in 2025 and is positioned as a preventive health intelligence company. Shashank ND is the founder of Practo, while Anshul Khandelwal was the former CMO of Ola Electric, and Arpit Garg was the former product head at Lenskart. Cent is building a vertically integrated preventive health platform that combines purpose-built hardware, AI-driven radiology and diagnostics, and bioinformatics. The startup says the platform can help detect diseases well before symptoms appear. Cent has also acquired Medsee, an AI-powered radiology reporting workflow platform founded by Chitra Singh and designed for qualified medical professionals. The platform drafts structured reports and highlights findings for radiologist review, enabling Cent to deliver faster, more consistent reporting as scan volumes grow. "India's healthcare system is still built to treat illness, not to find it early. We believe the next shift is preventive care that is precise and accessible at scale. This investment lets us go deeper into AI, medical imaging and clinical research, and build preventive health infrastructure in India that can serve the world," said Anshul Khandelwal, Co-Founder, Cent. According to Cent, it has completed 10,000 preventive whole-body scans across Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi since inception. It is targeting 10 million scans by 2035. “We are believers in the Cent's vision to extend this from India to the world over time, and it is in line with our conviction around health tech for a decade now," said Karthik Reddy, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Blume Ventures.
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