Getting a blood test in India has long meant a trip to the neighbourhood lab, trusted, but often slow, inconvenient, and especially difficult when someone is unwell.
For Dhruv Gupta, that gap became personal in 2019 when his wife and daughter caught dengue and needed daily platelet tests.
Digital options weren’t reliable, and the family had no choice but to visit a lab in person.
The experience inspired Gupta, who previously worked in telehealth and diagnostics at Practo, to rethink how diagnostic testing could be delivered.
In 2020, he teamed up with Tarun Bhambra, a former McKinsey consultant and investor, to launch Labs in Bengaluru.
