Top 100 Startups to Watch Forbes India | Apex Cura Healthcare

Boost Patient Engagement and Revenue

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Babu Ravi Kumar

CEO, Apex Cura

30 Jan 2026

8 min

Apex Cura leadership team at a modern hospital, recognized by Forbes India as a top healthcare AI startup.

Getting recognized feels meaningful only when it reflects real impact. For Apex Cura Healthcare, being featured in Forbes India’s Top 100 Startups to Watch is not just an accolade — it validates the problem we are solving and the outcomes we are delivering for hospitals every day.


This recognition comes through the Leap To Unicorn program, an initiative by IDFC FIRST Bank, in association with moneycontrol.com and CNBC-TV18. From over 6,300 startups across India, Apex Cura was selected among the Top 100 — making this a significant milestone in our journey.


More importantly, it highlights a growing reality in Indian healthcare: AI is no longer a 'nice-to-have'. When applied thoughtfully, it can drive measurable operational and financial outcomes for hospitals.

What Forbes India’s ‘Top 100 Startups to Watch’ Really Represents

The Top 100 Startups to Watch list curated by Forbes India goes beyond innovation hype. It recognizes companies that demonstrate:


  • Clear problem – solution fit
  • Scalable and sustainable business models
  • Strong execution discipline
  • Tangible real-world impact

Through the Leap To Unicorn program, startups are evaluated not only on technology, but on their ability to create long-term value. With thousands of applicants and a rigorous, multi-stage selection process, this recognition signals that Apex Cura stands out as a company solving real healthcare problems at scale — not just building vanity technology solutions.

From Idea to Impact: Solving Hospital Operational Complexity

Healthcare is one of the most complex industries with high personal interaction at every touchpoint of the patient journey. Hospitals deal with:


  • High patient volumes
  • Fragmented workflows
  • Manual processes
  • Revenue leakages
  • Overburdened staff

Despite advances in the medical field, hospital operations often remain complex, inefficient, disconnected, and reactive. At Apex Cura, we are trying to change that reality to provide smooth patient experience and better operational control for the hospital teams. Apex Cura focuses on building AI platform that can seamlessly integrate into existing hospital ecosystems without replacing them. And the AI can help the hospital to understand the patient needs along with measuring how the hospital staff responded. Giving full control on the patient engagement and visibility on leakages.

Apex Cura Healthcare: Building an AI Layer That Understands the Patient

At the heart of Apex Cura is a simple but powerful idea: hospital data exists everywhere, but understanding it holistically is the real challenge.


Rather than creating a single monolithic system, Apex Cura deploys modular AI agents, each designed to handle a specific operational function — much like trained staff members working together.


These AI agents operate across three critical pillars:


1. Operations Agent

A patient interacts with the hospital through multiple channels. Like calls, messages, contact forms, billing system, enquiry forms, feedback forms etc. The Ai Agent decodes the data at multiple touch points, comprehends the data to understand the patient need, to measure the hospital staff response. Thereby, providing visibility on the quality of interaction and the leakage points.


The result: smoother operations, better staff productivity, better patient experience and improved revenue outcomes.


2. GenAI Chatbot for Patient Engagement

When a patient interacts with Hospital through messages, it is essential to respond with most up to date information and in the shortest time possible. Because the response time decides the probability of acquiring that patient. Deploying GenAI bot responds almost like humans and with the help of RAG models, it has the access to latest information.


Outcome: Quick response, accurate information shared and acquires more patients


3. Patient Feedback & Revenue Leakage Management

The patient experience inside the hospital while availing the service is significant. It is the most important parameter, apart from the doctor, which decides on the ability to retain existing patients. Our patient feedback system helps the hospital to get the real voice from the floor. Understanding the patient concerns and addressing them to improve their experience is very much required to retain the patients. Apex Cura uses AI to track patient experience end-to-end, identify gaps, and help hospitals improve both patient experience and financial outcomes — without increasing staff workload.

Gratitude and Road Ahead

We extend our sincere gratitude to:

  • Leap To Unicorn
  • IDFC FIRST Bank
  • Forbes India
  • moneycontrol.com
  • CNBC-TV18
  • Our hospital partners and early believers

Every milestone is built on trust, collaboration, and a shared belief that healthcare operations can—and should—be simpler and more human.


As we move forward, our mission remains unchanged: to make AI in Indian healthcare practical, measurable, and deeply impactful. This recognition is an encouragement — but it is only the beginning.

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