Twitter's co-founder Biz Stone has invested an undisclosed amount of funding in a Delhi-based healthtech startup Visit, Stone announced it in a blog post. The funding round reportedly also saw the participation of Snapdeal co-founders Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal, US-based BlueJeans Network co-founder Alagu Periyannan and Qualcomm Ventures's former executive Karthee Madasamy. Founded in 2016 by Anurag Prasad, Vaibhav Singh, Shashvat Tripathi and Chetan Anand, Visit uses AI-based chatbot for health advice, and the bot connects users with a network of doctors over a chat, video chat, or phone. In his blog post, Stone explains that "people interact with the Visit chatbot by sharing some symptoms. The bot follows up with relevant questions to collect more symptoms and risk factors (is the person hypertensive, diabetic, a smoker). This triaging is conversational, and low stress". He added that Visit's machines are trained using over 20,000 probabilistic relationships between variables such as conditions, symptoms, risk factors, past history, and more. Once a probable medical condition is determined, Visit connects the patient to one of over 2,000 health specialists all across India via video, phone, or chat so the right treatment can be put into place. On Why he has invested in Visit, Stone added that people will likely be more truthful with a bot than a person too. It looks like that the startup will use the money to expand its services globally, as it says on its website that it is soon launching in US. Spurt of funding in healthtech Over the past…
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