Somewhere in rural Odisha, a villager walks into a small, bright clinic a few kilometres from home. A trained nurse takes her blood pressure, runs an ECG, tests her blood sugar — and within minutes, an AI-assisted screening maps her risk profile while a specialist in the city reviews the same record on a connected platform. This is not a charity camp that packs up at sunset. It is a permanent, technology-powered healthcare system, and the Bhubaneswar company behind it has just raised nearly ₹100 crore to take it to more of India’s villages.
CureBay, founded in 2021 by Priyadarshi Mohapatra, Shobhan Mahapatra and Sanjay Swain, has built what it describes as India’s first six-layer integrated Rural Healthcare Operating System. Instead of another teleconsultation app, the company engineered a full care journey: IoT-enabled physical clinics, a network of community health workers it calls Swasthya Mitras, a connected digital platform, AI-powered screening and risk alerts, a 24/7 command centre, and CureBay Kavach — an annual membership offering preventive healthcare and financial protection at ₹499.
The technology layer is what makes the system work where apps alone have failed. The company’s CareSathi acts as a 24×7 digital health companion, while its intelligence layer runs AI-driven screening, diagnostic analytics and assisted clinical decision-making across every patient journey. Patients walk into eClinics — small physical centres within a 5–10 km radius of villages — where trained nurses and pharmacists conduct preclinical assessments like blood pressure measurement, blood glucose testing and ECGs, all feeding into the connected platform.
The scale the company reports is striking: more than 250 technology-enabled clinics across seven states, supported by over 1,800 Swasthya Mitras, more than 530 trained clinical staff, over 230 doctor partners and more than 210 partner hospitals and laboratories. CureBay says it has served over 17 lakh patients and runs more than 400 health camps every month. It has also been named the healthcare partner for Samriddhi Kendra, a Government of India initiative.
On 22 October 2026, CureBay announced a pre-Series C round of nearly ₹100 crore — ₹69 crore in equity led by IvyCap Ventures alongside existing investors, and over ₹30 crore in venture debt from Trifecta Capital, Alteria Capital and VentureSoul Partners. The fresh capital will take the operating system into new markets, starting with Andhra Pradesh, while deepening its proprietary technology and AI capabilities.
“Rural Bharat doesn’t need another app; it needs a system that works end to end, from the Swasthya Mitra at the doorstep to the specialist in the city,” founder and CEO Priyadarshi Mohapatra said at the announcement. It is a mission built by people who understand the ground they serve — all three founders were raised in Odisha, and the company was conceived during the pandemic to close a healthcare gap that has persisted for generations.
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When the clinic, the community worker, the AI and the specialist all work as one system, distance stops being destiny. India’s villages are getting a healthcare operating system of their own — engineered in Bhubaneswar, and now ready for the rest of Bharat.
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