Ankur Jain, the former chief product officer of fintech company BharatPe, is set to launch his new startup in the field of AI healthcare, sources aware of the development told Entrackr.
“Ankur Jain’s Jivi.ai is expected to go live with its public launch this month,” said one of the sources requesting anonymity. “The founding team consists of professionals and research scholars from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and Yale.”
Jain left BharatPe in July last year after serving more than three years at the company where he was responsible for the complete product life cycle and innovation. Entrackr had exclusively reported the development.
Jivi.ai will be the second startup for Jain who also co-founded travel tech startup Instalocate.
“Jivi.ai is leveraging artificial intelligence, digital health, large language models, machine learning, and generative AI to transform primary healthcare,” said another source.
As per sources, version one of Jivi.ai is anticipated to launch in India and the US. “It has partnered with over 100 doctors, physicians, and hospitals in India in the last 3 months,” sources added.
Sources further said that Jivi.ai has also closed initial seed funding and is in discussions to close the next round soon.
Queries sent to Jain did not elicit any response. We’ll update the post in case he responds.
Growing BharatPe mafia
After, Flipkart, Paytm, PayPal and others, now there’s a growing BharatPe mafia. Genwise was launched by former BharatPe’s executives Rajat Jain, Geetanshu Singla and Nehul Malhotra, raised money in April last year. Entrackr exclusively reported the development.
Third Unicorn, floated by former BharatPe co-founder and MD Ashneer Grover and his wife Madhuri Jain, launched fantasy sports platform CrickPe. Third Unicorn is also on the verge of launching another fintech startup ZeroPe. Bhavik Koladiya, another co-founder of the company, joined SaaS startup OTPless as CEO. Suhail Sameer, who served as CEO of BharatPe, is handling venture capital firm OTP Venture as managing partner.
