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Bessemer backs doctors to launch new IVF platform
Mint Kolkata
|October 31, 2025
Global venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners has backed a group of experienced doctors to start a new healthcare platform focused on in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
Pluro Fertility and IVF has raised ₹125 crore of Series A funding, valuing the new company at ₹1,000 crore. This deal plays into the theme where most risk investors are increasingly scouting for investments in single-speciality healthcare firms.
This story is from the October 31, 2025 edition of Mint Kolkata.
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