June 28, 2016: An online counselling and emotional wellness platform, YourDOST has raised $1.2 million (approx Rs 8 crore) in a pre-series A round led by SAIF Partners with repeat participation from seven angel investors — Venk Krishnan (NuVentures), Subbarao Telidevara (NuVentures), Phanindra Sama (Redbus), Aprameya Radhakrishna (TaxiForSure), Paula Mariwala (Seedfund), Vibhu Garg (Unicommerce) and Gaurav Bhalotia (Flipkart).
YourDOST is a free online platform which is available both through web portal and mobile app, users can choose to get into a live chat, voice call, video call or book an appointment with the expert of their choice.
Incepted in December 2014, YourDOST was founded by IIT-Guwahati alumnus Richa Singh, along with IIM-Bangalore’s Puneet Manuja, Northeastern University alumnus Satyajeet Nandekar and Prakhar Verma, acomputer science graduate from BMSCE, Bengaluru.