Orange Health Labs

Orange Health Labs, operated by Orchard Healthcare Private Limited, runs a full-stack diagnostics platform in India that combines app- and web-based test booking, at-home phlebotomy and in-house laboratories. Customers order from a menu the company describes as more than 2,000 routine and specialised tests and preventive checkups (blood, thyroid, diabetes, vitamins, hormones, liver and kidney function, cardiac, sexual health, genetics and gut health panels, plus RT-PCR and dengue tests), select a slot between 6 AM and 10 PM, and track the assigned collection agent — branded an "eMedic" — in real time. Samples are moved to company-owned automated labs under temperature-controlled transport, and reports are delivered through the app, WhatsApp and email.

The company's core service promise is at-home sample collection within 60 minutes (30 minutes per its Y Combinator listing) and verified reports within 6 hours for most tests; longer turnarounds of 12 hours or more apply to larger checkup packages. Website claims include 98% on-time collections against a 60-minute promise, 99% of reports delivered within 6 hours, in-house fully automated labs in each city served, and an external quality assessment (eQAS) partnership with AIIMS and CMC Vellore. Alongside home collection, Orange Health has added an in-centre retail channel, operating collection centres and, as of late 2024, planning growth from 8 centres to 30, along with home-based ECG testing and a new Bengaluru test facility.

Founding story

Orange Health was started in 2020 — December 2020 per one account, with service launched in January 2021 — by Dhruv Gupta and Tarun Bhambra, both former Practo executives. Gupta is a consumer tech entrepreneur with prior exits to Practo and HT Media, and Bhambra has roughly a decade of experience as an operator, investor, consultant and product and business leader. The company was part of Y Combinator's Summer 2020 batch.

Business model

Orange Health Labs sells diagnostic tests and preventive health checkup packages directly to consumers, fulfilled either at the customer's home by its own trained collection staff or at its collection centres, with testing performed in its own labs. It is moving toward an omnichannel model that adds retail collection presence to the home-collection service, and it distributes through partnerships such as an integrated diagnostics tie-up with Medstown.

Revenue comes from per-test and per-package fees paid by consumers, with list prices discounted (for example a 92-parameter Full Body Checkup - Essential at ₹1,599 against a ₹5,243 list price) and promotional codes offering additional discounts. The company reported crossing an annual revenue run rate of Rs 100 crore by December 2024 and revenue of Rs 84 crore in FY25 against a loss of Rs 81 crore.

Traction

The company reports more than one million customers and over one million tests conducted, 1,000+ referring doctors, more than one million Android app downloads, a 4.8 iOS rating from about 4,900 ratings and a 4.9 Google rating. It crossed a Rs 100 crore annual revenue run rate and reported profitability in Bengaluru, its first city, as of December 2024, with FY25 revenue of Rs 84 crore and a loss of Rs 81 crore. Team size is listed at 1,100.

Latest developments

In June 2026, regulatory filings showed the board approving the issuance of 4,579,270 Series C compulsorily convertible preference shares at Rs 604.72 each to raise Rs 277 crore (about $30 million), led by Iron Pillar India (Rs 156 crore, about $16 million) with Crescent Enterprises, Bertelsmann, Accel India, General Catalyst, Good Capital and Paramark Frontier Fund participating; the round was reported to value the company at about Rs 1,950 crore ($205 million) post-money, leaving Accel India as the largest external shareholder at 15.49% and Iron Pillar at about 8%. Proceeds are earmarked for footprint expansion, laboratory infrastructure and technology. Earlier in 2026 the company partnered with Medstown to launch integrated diagnostic services across six Indian cities.