Homegrown femtech startup Elda Health raises $1.5 million to assist midlife women’s healthcare

Bengaluru-based femtech startup Elda Health has raised $1.5 Million from Avaana Capital, Orios Ventures, and Ananth Narayanan Family office in its seed funding to tap into the underserved midlife women’s healthcare space.

Elda serves as an everyday companion for midlife women on their healthcare journey, empowering them with measurable health outcomes. It helps users track the entire spectrum from symptoms to activities through comprehensive reporting mechanism map progress made on health goals. It also offers customised health pathways that include personalised consultations with medical experts, and curated information to help build awareness around critical physical and mental health concerns.

The company founded by Swathi Kulkarni, Sindhuri Ananth, and Shubham Sharma, share a collective passion to scale healthcare access.

An Indian School of Business (ISB) alumnus, Swathi is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 17 years of experience across brands like Nua, Komli, Amazon and more. Sindhuri has over 10 years of experience having worked at KPMG and Intel in her previous roles. A BITS Pilani alumnus, Shubham has previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Walmart Labs.

“Women's health has been underserved for generations. While puberty and pregnancy are celebrated and tended to, pivotal phases of women's lives such as menopause are completely ignored,” said Swathi Kulkarni, Co-Founder & CEO, Elda Health.

The company was founded to make healthcare equal and accessible for women over the age of 35 across the stages of awareness, precaution, diagnosis & cure.

“Women's health is fragmented. We aim to bridge this gap in healthcare access & awareness by creating a holistic health platform bringing in multi-speciality medical specialists and coaches to understand and cure women health issues intimately,” said Sindhuri Ananth, Co-Founder, Elda Health.

Elda’s health programs are mindfully curated through expert-led advice. Their expert panel boasts of veteran medical practitioners across mental wellness, gynaecology, dermatology, orthopedics, chronic pain and more.

The money raised will be used to scale up its offerings, operations, hire new talent, onboard health & wellness professionals and doctors to expand its circle of expertise.