Drishti
Drishti offers high quality, affordable eye care in underserved markets with a model that is designed to cover distributed populations
- Stage Prototype Ready
- Industry Healthcare Services
- Location Devanahalli, Southegowdanahalli, Karnataka, India
- Currency INR
- Founded August 2011
- Employees 6
Company Summary
Drishti is a social enterprise targeting underserved areas with eye care services. These markets have large number of people who need eye care but no providers. Our products and services are priced to cover everyone -- top, middle and bottom of the economic pyramid. Drishti's 3 tier model brings eye care to villages via camps, primary care via telemedicine to small towns and surgical care at our district hospital
Team
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Dr Rajesh BabuDirector and Chief Ophthalmologist
MS (Ophthalmology)
FRMF (Uveitis and Ocular Immunology)
MSc (Public Health for Eye care), ICEH London
DLSHTM, LSHTM, UKRajesh has worked at Sankara and Narayana Netralaya for over 10 years and is champion of delivering quality eye care in underserviced areas. He now lives in Devanahalli and manages the operations at Drishti Devanahalli
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Kiran AnandampillaiDirector
Kiran is an telecom engineer and founding member of OnMobile, a company spun out of Infosys. He helped build OnMobile from a 10 people startup to 1200 people with revenues over 500 crores. He quit OnMobile in Dec 2010 to work on projects that deliver social impact. He is currently at Volunteer – Technology at UIDAI and co-founded Drishti with Dr Rajesh. At Drishti, He handles strategy and finance
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Anjali JoshiDirector - Operations
Anjali started as a tech writer and built and ran the tech writing team at Arcot for several years. She has juggled free lance tech writing, working as a counsellor at Vishwas and Viveka along with running the Yoga Nikeya Trust.
At Drishti, Anjali handles general administration, setup of processes, training and HR.
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Nishant AnandHead - IT
Nishant has about 10 years of experience in developing high performance IT products. He has exposure to Product Management, Architecture and Engineering and lead the development of OnMobile's Application platform.
At Drishti, Nishant heads IT and is responsible for rolling out vision centers using TeleMedicine.
Advisors
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Vinay Joy, Khaitan & CoLawyerUnconfirmedSmitha ShaileshAccountantUnconfirmed
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