Parenting start-up Healofy raises $1 million from Omidyar Network

Healofy, a parenting start-up, has raised $1 million from Omidyar Network as part of their seed round.

The multilingual platform will use the fresh funding to add key talent in leadership positions across segments; build onto the existing personalisation engine and add more regional languages to the app. It currently supports eight local languages, including Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali, Marathi and Tamil.

“With Omidyar Network’s support, we plan to grow our active user base 10x in 2018,” said Gaurav Aggarwal, chief executive officer, Healofy.

According to reports, India loses more than 50,000 pregnant women and 1.8 billion babies due to lack