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Vipin Pathak, Co-Founder & CEO, Care24

He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Care24. Vipin Pathak started his career as a software engineer at Financial Technologies and quickly moved up in his career to become a business consultant at PwC and later as manager at Ernst & Young.

But he didn’t stop until he did something entirely on his own, which is also helpful for the community. Thus, his startup Care24 was born. Launched in 2014, Care24 is an end-to-end home care service platform that connects different types of care-givers with patients.Vipin Pathak's drive for pursuing his startup goal in the field of home care stems from his experience with international knowledge houses such as PwC and EY.  It was rather an emotional thought that he and many of his professional friends in the metros shared among each other about their old parents living in small towns who often struggle to travel to far-away places to access better healthcare.

Care24 is one of the leading home healthcare companies and envisions to become the biggest platform for all health services at home. Strongly built on technology and heavily invested in quality and training processes, the platform makes home-healthcare reliable, accessible and affordable for one and all. Their services are currently available in Mumbai and NCR region but they aim to expand the services pan india. They offer patient services to multiple acute and chronic conditions cases of Post-Hospitalization, Stroke, Cardiac, Neuro, Ortho, Elderly bedridden, Dementia, Cancer etc. The core services offered are Medical Nursing, Physiotherapy, Attendants, ICU & Step down at Home.

Healthcare is about long term investments and consistent efforts. Their continuous effort in working with customer’s requirements, creating new service lines and empowering supply financially and technologically has helped them to become the trusted brand in Home care. With the addition of new cities, disease specific offerings and more affordable products and services across different verticals, their long term goal is to serve 50,000 patients/day on the platform for all of their healthcare needs.

Speaking about the company’s journey through the pandemic, Vipin Pathak, Founder and CEO, Care24 says that the past two years have been an overwhelming time for all sectors, especially healthcare. Due to the hospitals being flooded with patients, home healthcare space saw accelerated activity. “It has resulted into more customer awareness and acceptance to Home Healthcare”

The startup was recently acquired by Human Life Management (HLM) which is a leading Japanese home medical delivery platform. It doubled down on innovation to cater to customers requirements.HLM claimed to have worked closely with Care24 on several projects in India, the Middle East, and Africa. The Human Life Management is a part of the SIPS group, which runs Home Medical Care in Japan, where it provides critical care to over 6000 families through its partner Yushoukai Medical Corporation.

In terms of funding, Vipin Pathak notes that HLM, a long-term investor in the firm, is prepared to contribute $5-$10 million to assist Care24's growth in the future years.

“We aim to bridge the gaps of Global Medical expertise, best practices, capital and network in Japan, Southeast Asia with HLM and Care24’s existing capabilities. All our investors are also excited and pleased with this acquisition and strongly believe that HLM is the right long term partner for us," Vipin Pathak, Founder and CEO, Care24 said.

Vipin Surelia, Chief Risk Officer-India & South Asia, Visa

Vipin Surelia is Visa’s Head of Risk Services for India and South Asia and holds the responsibility of championing security in the industry and maintaining the integrity of the payments ecosystem.  This complex and fast evolving ecosystem includes issuing and acquiring clients, merchants, cardholders, and service providers such as processors, device manufacturers and payment gateways. Reporting to Visa’s Regional Risk Officer, he is also responsible for strategic risk management for the business, credit settlement risk, brand protection, fraud management and data security across the South Asia market.

Vipin joined Visa in 2018. Prior to this, he was Chief Risk and Compliance Officer for Paytm Payments Bank, and a part of founding team of the bank. He has previously been the Head of Products at National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and has also worked with Reserve Bank of India, IBM and HSBC.

He holds MBA and Engineering degrees and lives in Mumbai. In his spare time, He pursues his interests in reading and cooking.

Vipul Mankad, Managing Director, SEAF India Investment Advisor | @SEAFGlobal

Mr. Vipul Mankad has longstanding experience of managing Venture Capital / Impact Investment funds. He has managed full Fund life cycle and has led many successful transactions across multiple industries and stages in different emerging markets.

Vipul joined SEAF (an international investment management group that provides growth capital and business assistance to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets) as Global Investment Officer and is also a member of its “Global Investment Committee”, responsible for investment related operations of Funds managed by SEAF across different markets.

At present he manages SEAF India Agribusiness Fund, a $41.8 million fund investing in small and medium-sized enterprises in India’s agribusiness space. Besides India, he is also responsible for providing oversight to funds in Bangladesh and Tanzania.

Prior to joining SEAF, Vipul worked at leadership positions, like President of SIDBI Venture – India (VC arm of SIDBI- National level DFI supporting SME , sponsored by Government of India), VP with Gujarat Venture -India (supported by the World Bank) and with prominent Development Bank in Gujarat (GIIC).

He is an MBA and Chemical Engineer. He also holds a Diploma in Finance from ICFAI (India).

Vipul Parekh, Co-Founder, Bigbasket.com

Vipul Roongta, MD & CEO, HDFC Capital

Mr Vipul Roongta is the Managing Director & CEO of HDFC Capital Advisors Ltd, investment manager of the largest affordable and middle-income housing fund in India. Vipul manages more than US$ 1 billion and focuses on providing long term equity and mezzanine capital to the real estate sector.

Prior to setting up a dedicated platform for investments in affordable housing, Vipul was heading the investment team at HDFC Asset Management Company Limited (HDFC AMC), where he successfully raised and deployed over US$950 million in the real estate private equity sector in India. The fund was awarded “Best Real Estate Fund” in India for 3 years in a row from 2013 to 2015 and “Real Estate Fund of the Decade” in 2016 by CNBC-Awaaz. Prior to HDFC AMC, Vipul was part of the core team that set up one of the first Indian real estate venture funds under HDFC Property Fund. 

Mr Roongta has cumulative experience of more than twenty years in the real estate sector and has managed real estate investment funds in excess of US$3 billion. Outside of work, Vipul loves to travel, is a food enthusiast and runs a food club in New Delhi.

Mr Roongta has been honored with some important awards, the leading one being the fund manager of the decade in 2016 by CNBC Awaaz.

Viraf Karanjia, Sr VP & Head Corporate Banking, HSBC Western India

Viraf has over 15 years of in-depth experience of working with very aspect of Corporate and Commercial banking. He Heads the Corporate banking team for HSBC in Western India, he has been with HSBC for over 5 years and his previous experience includes working with various local and multinational financial organizations.

Viraj Bahl, Founder & Managing Director, Veeba Food Services Pvt Ltd

Mr Viraj Bahl is the Founder & Managing Director of Veeba Food Services  Private Limited. Under the “Veeba” brand the company is one of the fastest growing FMCG companies in the country. Veeba has re-wriiten the rules of the industry with extreme focus on Research & Development. In a very short span of time under the leadership of Viraj Bahl - Veeba has already become leading supplier to all the biggest names in the QSR industry of India and has a national distribution footprint.

After completing his Industrial Engineering from Singapore, Viraj Bahl started his career at Fun Foods - Viraj Bahl was a part of the promoter family of Fun Foods, they later made a complete exit by selling their shares to a German Food Major. At Fun Foods Viraj Bahl was responsible for all  aspects of the business. He personally spear-headed the explosive expansion of that company in retail and modern trade.

Viraj Bahl in his entire career has been awarded various awards from the industry & various organisations.

Viraj Sawhney, MD, Warburg Pincus India Private Limited

Viraj Sawhney is a Managing Director at Warburg Pincus India Pvt. Ltd. He is based in Mumbai and joined Warburg Pincus in 2005.  He evaluates opportunities in business services sectors including logistics and IT, as well as industrials. He is a director of ECOM Express Private Limited, Embassy Industrial Parks Private Limited, Continental Warehousing Corporation (Nhava Seva) Limited and AVTEC India Limited.

Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, Mr. Sawhney was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company, where he spent five years serving clients in the services and industrial sectors across India, S.E. Asia and Australia.  Mr. Sawhney holds a B.A. degree in mathematics from St. Stephens College (Delhi University) and an M.B.A. from IIM Ahmedabad.

Virat Diwanji, Group President and Head - Consumer Banking, Kotak Mahindra Bank

Virat Singh Khutal, Co-Founder & CEO, Twist Mobile

Virat is Co-Founder and CEO of Twist Mobile. He has worked as game developer and game designer in Gameloft before starting Twist Mobile. He has been active participating in Twistfuture for Short Mobile Movie production in India. Entrepreneurship and Mass reach has been always focus for him. Virat graduated as an Architect from IPS Academy, India and did MCM from Pune University.