83-Year-Old Indian IT Veteran Soota Bets ₹5,000cr on AI Digital Health
santoshpanda · x · 2026-11-13
According to The Times of India, 83-year-old Ashok Soota has committed an additional ₹500cr to his healthcare company Happiest Health, funded partly by the roughly ₹1,330cr in proceeds from selling a 22.1% stake in Happiest Minds to ITC Infotech. About half of the new capital will go into his fifth business unit, Happiest Digital Health, over the next 18 months, with 11 digital health apps rolling out in stages.
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