Hyderabad-based Docturnal selected for Project Amplify startup programme

Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based healthtech company Docturnal has been selected for Project Amplify programme, supported by Accenture and Microsoft, as part of 10 startups chosen from across India. Founded in 2016 by Arpita Singh, Rahul Pathri, and Vaishanavi Reddy, Docturnal is aimed at providing point-of-care and non-invasive screening and prognosis for pulmonary tuberculosis and pneumonia. The team […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based healthtech company Docturnal has been selected for Project Amplify programme, supported by Accenture and Microsoft, as part of 10 startups chosen from across India.

Founded in 2016 by Arpita Singh, Rahul Pathri, and Vaishanavi Reddy, Docturnal is aimed at providing point-of-care and non-invasive screening and prognosis for pulmonary tuberculosis and pneumonia. The team is also working on Covid-19. Its product, TimBre, can detect pulmonary tuberculosis just by recording the audio of a person’s cough.

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Project Amplify will support 10 startups in India, including Docturnal, which focus on social impact and sustainability, by helping them to scale their emerging solutions and business models. The joint initiative is Asia Pacific-wide and accelerates the growth of 33 startups from across the region.

The initiative extends activities launched in South Asia in 2020 welcoming business ventures from Singapore, Australia, Japan, Sri Lanka, and more. The initiative has a long-term goal of accelerating Asia’s potential and improving millions of lives in the region and globally, by addressing diverse societal challenges.

Purpose-driven startups from India participating in Project Amplify include Docturnal, Jaljeevika, eKutir, Everwell, Fluxgen, BrainSight AI, Fresh On Table, FreshR, Rocket Learning and Blink Foundation. These startups selected for the programme have demonstrated how their product, service, and operations address a significant social or environmental problem and have shown early signs of impact.

Scale-up support

The startups will have the opportunity to access the latest technologies, as well as know-how, expertise and mentoring from both Accenture and Microsoft. The companies will help startups test and validate proof-of-concepts to re-envision and expand the impact and social benefit of their solutions.

“Social enterprises face many challenges, including access to technology and innovation expertise to scale their solutions,” said Sanjay Podder, MD and Technology Sustainability Innovation lead at Accenture.

Accenture will focus on helping startups apply technologies to address critical challenges facing environment and society and to advance organisations’ sustainability agendas. Microsoft will help social enterprises build and scale their companies to do good globally.

“We are committed to addressing some of India’s most pressing challenges, including expanding access to healthcare, education and finance,” said Lathika Pai, country head, Venture Capital and Private Equity Partnerships, Microsoft India.

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