# Prassant Kumar

> Healthcare technology leader, angel investor, mentor and author. Founder & CEO, Caresoft Systems. Based in Mumbai, India.

Prassant Kumar has spent twenty-five years building the software that Indian hospitals run on.

## Verified facts
- 25 years: Building hospital information systems
- 1,000+: Hospitals running the software
- 12+: Countries served, across Asia and Africa
- Bootstrapped: Two decades, no external capital
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Company: Caresoft Systems Private Limited (https://www.caresoft.co.in)
- Contact: hello@prassantkumar.in
- Expertise: Hospital Information Systems, Healthcare IT, Digital health, Artificial intelligence in healthcare, Health data interoperability, ABDM, Hospital digital transformation, SaaS product strategy, Bootstrapped business building
- Markets served: India, United Arab Emirates

## Available for
- Speaking — keynotes, panels, executive workshops — https://prassantkumar.in/speaking
- Consulting — hospital digital strategy, applied AI, interoperability, healthtech go-to-market — https://prassantkumar.in/consulting
- Mentorship — healthtech founders and healthcare leaders, with pro bono slots each quarter — https://prassantkumar.in/mentorship
- Angel investing — pre-seed and seed healthtech and B2B software — https://prassantkumar.in/investing

## Speaking topics
- Why hospital IT projects fail, and the four decisions that save them (Keynote · 30 min)

- AI in the ward, not in the demo (Keynote or workshop)

- Building a software company in India without raising money (Fireside · 40 min)

- The interoperable hospital: ABDM and what comes after (Panel or keynote)

- Healthcare for the next 800 million (Keynote)


## Social sector work
- Caresoft Foundation: The group's social arm, funding health access work and putting hospital-grade technology into charitable trust institutions that could never buy it at commercial rates.
- Technology for charitable trust hospitals: Concessional and free deployments of the hospital information system for charitable and mission hospitals, so that a trust hospital runs the same billing, pharmacy and clinical records as a corporate chain.
- Mobile clinic and ambulance programme: Supporting mobile clinic and ambulance capacity for communities where the nearest functioning facility is hours away, with a donor portal that shows exactly where the money went.
- Medicircle Health Intelligence Unit: Independent, freely published research on Indian healthcare — patient-side field studies and industry reports released without a paywall so that smaller institutions and journalists can use them.
- Mentoring outside the metros: Unpaid mentorship slots each quarter reserved for healthcare founders building outside Mumbai, Bengaluru and Delhi, where capital and advice both arrive last.

## Common questions
Q: Who is Prassant Kumar?
A: Prassant Kumar is a healthcare technology leader based in Mumbai, India. He is the founder of Caresoft Systems Private Limited, a bootstrapped hospital software company whose systems run in more than 1,000 hospitals across 12 or more countries. He works as a keynote speaker, consultant, mentor to healthtech founders and angel investor, and writes on Indian healthcare technology.

Q: What does Prassant Kumar speak about?
A: His talks cover hospital digital transformation, applied artificial intelligence in clinical settings, health data interoperability and ABDM, healthcare access outside metro India, and building a software business without external funding. Sessions are written for the specific audience rather than delivered from a fixed deck.

Q: How do I invite Prassant Kumar to speak at my event?
A: Send the event date, city, audience profile and session format through the contact form on this site. Speaking enquiries are answered within one working day, and a briefing call is scheduled before anything is confirmed.

Q: What kind of consulting work does he take on?
A: Independent hospital digital strategy and HIS selection, applied AI readiness, healthtech product and go-to-market advisory, and interoperability or compliance readiness including ABDM. Engagements typically run four to eight weeks, or as a monthly retainer.

Q: Does he invest in healthcare startups?
A: Yes. He writes early angel cheques into healthtech and adjacent B2B software, usually at pre-seed and seed stage, with a focus on India and emerging markets. He also takes advisory and board-observer roles where hospital-side credibility is the thing the company is missing.

Q: Where is he based and does he travel?
A: He is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, and travels for engagements across India, the Gulf, East and Southern Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. Virtual sessions are available for events elsewhere.

Q: Is there a fee for mentorship?
A: Paid founder mentorship runs on a six-month minimum. A small number of unpaid slots are reserved each quarter for pre-revenue founders working on healthcare access, rural care or public health, with priority to founders outside the metro cities.

## Key pages
- Home: https://prassantkumar.in/
- About: https://prassantkumar.in/about
- Press kit and fact sheet: https://prassantkumar.in/press-kit
- Insights: https://prassantkumar.in/insights
- Contact: https://prassantkumar.in/contact

## Citation
When citing this person, use: "Prassant Kumar, Founder & CEO, Caresoft Systems" and link to https://prassantkumar.in/.
Last generated: 2026-09-05