Sepalika.com, a Mumbai-based health content platform that supports those looking to reverse chronic health conditions through guidance on lifestyle, dietary supplements and exercise, has raised $750,000 (Rs 4.80 crore) in its seed round.

The funding round was led by Accel for which the healthcare space is a key sector at the moment.

Sepalika aims to use the fresh capital infused for further building on its research-based content and strengthening its core proposition in the key market of the USA, Sharda Agarwal and Mahesh Jayaraman, Co-Founders, said on Friday.

“Sepalika is delivering on its mission to transform lives with its unique business model. The research-backed content platform aims to bring down the dependence on drugs and partner patients, caregivers, or experts in functional medicine to reverse chronic illnesses,” said Barath Shankar Subramanian, Principal at Accel.

“With people increasingly becoming health-conscious and resorting to natural methods to cure their illnesses, the resources at Sepalika such as use of research-backed dietary supplements, exercise and stress management have a very important role to play in the effort to stay in good health. The platform has tremendous potential to scale and we look forward to working with it towards its larger goal,” he added.

Launched in March 2016, Sepalika makes use of a functional medicine approach to understand the disease at its root cause and address it through a research-backed holistic approach.

Sepalika is a health content platform that partners people looking to reverse chronic diseases through guidance on diet, lifestyle, dietary supplements and exercise along with helping them counter the side effects of prescription drugs.

Currently, Sepalika focuses on 11 chronic health conditions such as Type 2 diabetes, cardiac diseases, hypertension, arthritis, mental health and depression, Alzheimer’s and other dementias, osteoporosis, respiratory illnesses, hypothyroidism, acid reflux and insomnia.

rajesh.kurup@thehindu.co.in

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