[L-R] Genie Health co-founders Maya Hari, Hari Krishnan, and Sandeep Suvarna
Anyone in Singapore who has sat through a corporate health screening knows the ritual. A thick report arrives, a few numbers glow red, and the PDF is filed somewhere between a tax notice and a gym membership nobody uses. Add a smartwatch counting steps, a blood pressure monitor bought after a scare, and clinic records sitting in systems the patient never sees, and the average person ends up data-rich and insight-poor.
Genie Health, a Singapore startup co-founded by former PropertyGuru CEO Hari V. Krishnan, wants to close that gap. The company has raised US$3 million in seed funding in a round led by the Nadathur Family Office, with participation from Liminal, a Temasek-backed founders’ studio, and two unnamed healthcare leaders.
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Anand Nadathur, Principal of the Nadathur Family Office, joins the board.
The founding team is unusually heavy-hitting for a seed round. Krishnan led PropertyGuru’s NYSE listing and its subsequent US$1.1 billion sale to EQT, and before that ran LinkedIn’s Asia Pacific business. Co-founder and Chair Maya Hari was CEO of carbon accounting firm Terrascope and earlier led Twitter’s business in the region. Sandeep Suvarna headed international marketing at Twitch and Asia Pacific marketing at LinkedIn.
Investors are plainly backing the people as much as the product. Nadathur said his office backs founders who are “capable, committed, and aligned with our values for the long term.” What the trio does not have, at least among its co-founders, is a clinician. The two healthcare angels and the planned hiring of healthcare expertise look designed to fill that gap.
Two products, one bet
Genie Health pitches itself as a two-sided health intelligence platform. On the consumer side, the free Genie app pulls health screening reports, lab results, wearable data, connected devices and family health history into a secure “Health Locker”, then surfaces personalised insights and suggests next steps. Members, the company says, keep control of their data at all times.
On the provider side, Genie SmartCare is a clinic platform built on agentic AI, software that carries out multi-step tasks rather than simply answering questions. It engages patients around the clock, books appointments and follow-ups, and combines longitudinal health records with wearable data so care teams see a fuller picture. Providers, the company stresses, retain complete oversight.
The theory is that each side feeds the other: consumers bring data, clinics bring trust and care pathways. The new money will deepen the platform’s AI, push SmartCare into more clinics and grow product, engineering and healthcare teams in Singapore.
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The demand case is real. According to the company, one in three Singapore residents lives with at least one chronic condition, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol or poor glucose control. As the population ages, primary-care teams are carrying heavier loads, and the government’s Healthier SG programme has pushed preventive care to the centre of national health policy. Investors have taken note: listed players are already testing investor appetite for Singapore’s ageing economy.
“Members tell us they have more health information than ever, but still struggle to understand what it means for them and what to do next,” Krishnan said.
The hard parts
Aggregating health data sounds simple and has humbled many who tried. The app is rarely the difficult bit; making records portable across hospitals, clinics and labs is. Much of Singapore’s clinical data sits within public healthcare clusters and national systems, so a consumer app’s insights are only as good as what users upload and what partners agree to share. As one e27 contributor argued, the future of healthcare AI isn’t more data but better context.
Then there is trust. A locker holding lab results and family history is a prized target, and Singapore remembers the 2018 SingHealth breach, which exposed the records of about 1.5 million patients. “Members retain control” is a promise that will need audits, certifications and transparent data practices behind it.
Personalised guidance also sits close to medical advice. The line between spotting a pattern in someone’s cholesterol readings and telling them what it means clinically is thin, and the Health Sciences Authority, which regulates software as a medical device, will care where Genie draws it.
On the clinic side, SmartCare’s agentic promise meets the messy reality of primary care, where bookings still live in phone calls, WhatsApp threads and front desks. Patient intake has become one of healthcare’s most important AI use cases precisely because it is so manual, but AI agents in healthcare only work when the hand-off to humans is designed carefully.
“Healthcare teams want more time to understand their patients and support them prior to and beyond the consultation, but routine administrative demands can get in the way,” Maya Hari said.
A crowded waiting room
Genie Health enters a busy field. The government’s HealthHub app already gives Singapore residents free access to public health records, appointments and Healthier SG enrolment. Telehealth players such as Doctor Anywhere and MaNaDr offer consultations alongside digital records.
On the clinic side, Zeya Health recently acquired ConnectLah to build AI booking rails, and hospitals in the region, such as this Bangkok hospital, are building agentic patient services in-house. Globally, Apple Health and Google’s Fitbit already aggregate wearable data, while US startups such as Function Health have raised large sums selling lab-driven personalised insights.
Genie’s edge, if it has one, is the two-sided design and its founders’ platform DNA. PropertyGuru, after all, was a marketplace that kept the portal free for home seekers and earned its money from agents. Genie’s consumer app is also free, which suggests clinics will foot the bill, though the company has not disclosed its business model or how many clinics are using SmartCare.
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That playbook could travel well. But health is not property. A misleading listing costs a buyer a wasted viewing; a misleading health nudge costs a great deal more. Krishnan’s team has proven it can build a platform people use. Its next test is building one people trust with their bodies.
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