{"id":1021996,"date":"2026-07-18T08:37:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021996"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:10:03","slug":"indian-origin-techie-raises-55-mn-for-ai-startup-after-scan-missed-fathers-heart-attack-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/18\/indian-origin-techie-raises-55-mn-for-ai-startup-after-scan-missed-fathers-heart-attack-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian origin techie raises $55 mn for AI startup after scan missed father\u2019s heart attack risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian-origin entrepreneur Nishith Khandwala has raised $25 million for his healthcare AI startup Bunkerhill Health, taking the company\u2019s total funding to $55 million. The latest Series B funding round was led by Khosla Ventures, with Sequoia Capital, Felicis Ventures, Optum Ventures and Y Combinator also investing. <\/p>\n<p>Nishith announced the news on his X post. The startup has become one of the fastest-growing names in healthcare AI by helping hospitals use artificial intelligence to improve patient care, reduce paperwork and cut waiting times. What began as a student project at Stanford University is now being used by some of the biggest hospital systems in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian-origin entrepreneur Nishith Khandwala has raised $25 million for his healthcare AI startup Bunkerhill Health, taking the company\u2019s total funding to $55 million. The latest Series B funding round was led by Khosla Ventures, with Sequoia Capital, Felicis Ventures, Optum Ventures and Y Combinator also investing. Nishith announced the news on his X post. The startup has become one of the fastest-growing names in healthcare AI by helping hospitals use artificial intelligence to improve patient care, reduce paperwork and cut waiting times. What began as a student project at Stanford University is now being used by some of the biggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022016,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021996\/revisions\/1022016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}