Ratan Tata invests in Malayali's start-up

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chairman emeritus of Tata Sons Ratan Tata has invested in a medical emergency response start-up app company headed by Shaffi Mather, the former economic advisor to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. The San Francisco-based start-up, MUrgency Inc, has developed the Global Emergency Response Network mobile app for emergency response, which received many international awards.

Its services were already launched in Punjab and the Kerala foray is in the offing. A press release said it Tata’s first investment in a start-up by a Keralite. The firm had also received investment from Kris Gopalakrishnan and S.D. Shibulal led Axilor Ventures.

MUrgency was launched in the TriCity area in Punjab in February with a responder network of 36 hospital emergency rooms, more than 40 ambulances and 350 medical professionals. It is slated to launch service in Amritsar and Jalandhar in the last week of May 2016 and cover the entire state by end June 2016. The company plans to make its services available across India by 2018 and around the world by 2020, it said.