Even Healthcare has raised $50 million in a funding spherical led by Khosla Ventures, because the Indian startup seeks to vary how hospitals on the planet’s most populous nation make cash and the way medical doctors are rewarded.
The all-equity Collection B spherical additionally noticed participation from Alpha Wave and valued it at $300 million, triple its valuation 18 months in the past, in line with Even. The newest funding brings Even’s complete capital raised to greater than $120 million.
Hospitals in India sometimes earn extra when sufferers bear extra assessments, procedures, or longer stays, even when they might not want them. Even needs to vary that by specializing in affected person care moderately than pushing pointless therapies that drive up medical payments.
That strategy has continued to attraction to Khosla Ventures, which has invested in Even since its seed round in 2021. The Silicon Valley enterprise agency is doubling down as Even strikes to construct and function hospitals of its personal, giving it higher management over affected person care and prices.
Vinod Khosla, founding father of Khosla Ventures, stated Even’s strategy goes past fixing particular person components of a fragmented healthcare system by bringing financing, know-how, and care supply collectively. The aim, he stated in a ready assertion, is to reward higher well being outcomes moderately than higher use of healthcare companies.
“The scientific and financial outcomes to date give us conviction that this may develop into an vital new mannequin for healthcare in India and past,” Khosla stated.
Initially, Even relied on partner hospitals to deal with its members, however Mayank Banerjee, who based the startup in 2021 with Matilde Giglio and Alessandro Ialongo, stated in an interview that the startup started questioning that mannequin after discovering that sufferers had undergone assessments or been really helpful surgical procedures it thought of pointless.
“We predict sufferers are getting not solely a foul expertise, however insurers are getting a foul financial deal. And because of this, we determined to repair it by constructing our personal hospitals,” Banerjee advised TechCrunch.
Even has since opened two hospitals in Bengaluru, each of which reached operational profitability, excluding depreciation, inside a 12 months of opening, Banerjee acknowledged. The startup plans to open 5 extra hospitals within the southern Indian metropolis over the subsequent six months, funded by its newest spherical.
Banerjee advised TechCrunch that Even leases hospital buildings on 20-year agreements and spends on becoming them out and shopping for medical gear.
Not like hospitals the place medical doctors might have monetary incentives to advocate extra procedures, Even pays its medical doctors mounted salaries — not tying their compensation to the variety of assessments or surgical procedures they carry out, although Banerjee stated medical doctors can earn bonuses primarily based on patient-reported scientific outcomes.
The identical precept extends to hospital administration, whose compensation shouldn’t be linked to the variety of procedures carried out, Banerjee advised TechCrunch. Managers, he stated, obtain salaries and company-wide incentives, whereas advertising and marketing groups give attention to bringing in sufferers as a substitute of the income these sufferers generate. Furthermore, each worker, together with medical doctors and different hospital employees, receives fairness in Even. The concept is to provide staff a stake within the startup’s long-term efficiency, to not reward them for producing extra medical payments.
Most of Even’s income comes from sufferers paying for therapy, Banerjee stated. The startup additionally generates income by its relationships with insurers. It is usually working with insurer companions on a mannequin that might compensate it for hospitalizations it helps stop, not merely for offering extra therapy.
Banerjee advised TechCrunch that Even tracks how sufferers get better after therapy utilizing established medical scoring methods. Within the case of knee replacements, as an example, it makes use of the Oxford Knee Rating to measure ache and mobility. The startup publishes outcomes on its website, alongside figures from different healthcare methods for comparability.
Even says its hospitals have an unplanned readmission fee of lower than 1%, in contrast with an trade benchmark of 8% to fifteen%. Moreover, it claims sufferers spend 40% much less time within the hospital and that its strategy has saved insurers greater than ₹500 million (about $5.27 million).
Jai Sajnani, a accomplice at Khosla Ventures, advised TechCrunch that the early efficiency of Even’s hospitals was a key motive the agency led the spherical. “We sit up for serving to the Even staff put high quality care inside attain of each household in Bengaluru and throughout India,” he stated.
Even remains to be dropping cash, although. The startup posted a web lack of ₹902 million (about $9.50 million) in fiscal 2025, almost 25% greater than the earlier 12 months, on income of ₹272 million (about $2.86 million), regulatory filings present.
In August, Even additionally laid off about 350 employees, in line with Indian startup-news web site Entrackr. Banerjee acknowledged the restructuring and known as it a tough determination. He stated the affected staff acquired severance, prolonged medical health insurance, and accelerated fairness vesting.
Even presently employs about 650 individuals, together with round 300 medical doctors full-time. The startup has about 250,000 members and has recorded greater than 750,000 affected person interactions since its launch in 2021, together with consultations, diagnostic assessments, and surgical procedures, Banerjee stated.
Banerjee advised TechCrunch that Even may flip worthwhile inside months if it stopped spending on enlargement, however the startup is selecting to develop as a substitute. He declined to say when the startup expects to develop into worthwhile.
“Proper now, we’re investing in progress and serving extra sufferers,” Banerjee stated.
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