Purushottaman Dwarakanathan

Strategy & AI Transformation | Driving AI Led Value Creation & Digital Growth Across Telecom & Ventures| MTN Group

📍 United Arab Emirates🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2020
Angel investor🌍 United Arab Emirates
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Angel Investor
Apr 2020
Amaze Health empowers Americans to take charge of their healthcare. Our main goal is to help our members become better healthcare consumers, so we support them to search for the best price, use their insurance wisely and understand the rules of the healthcare game. With Amaze, our members have direct access to our medical team which allows for telehealth services whenever they need it. But we go way beyond telehealth services. When our members need help with the other parts of healthcare, like insurance questions, medical billing, or finding a local specialist, our team assists every step of the way.
Investor
Apr 2019
Medicus is an AI-based platform that converts health data into an interactive experience with easy-to-understand explanations, personalized health insights and smart wellbeing coaching. Medicus empowers everyone to easily understand their medical and health info, engage them with personalized health insights, and coach them every step of the way to stay or become healthy. Medicus currently covers biometric data, all vitals, full health profile and family history, medications, and the most tested blood, urine and stool markers. Medicus is used by diagnostic labs and health insurance companies to provide patient-friendly health reports and foster continuous and personalized wellbeing coaching. Medicus is building towards a future where the focus on health is part of everyday life: Empowering people to get and remain healthy, helping them every step of the way to recover from illness, and clearly explaining everything to them in order to make the best decision at any point in time. We are a team of technologists, researchers and medical geeks, passionate about health matters and about utilizing and applying the latest in technology to effect positive health changes in peoples lives, and transform healthcare services across the globe. Were based in Vienna with offices in Berlin, Paris, Beirut and Dubai. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter @MedicusAI
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2021
Limited Partner
Jan 2021
Loyal is a venture fund designed to reduce the risk and illiquidity of the asset class. Investors benefit from a highly diversified portfolio and the flexibility to buy or sell units quarterly. We invest in top founders from three trusted networks: INSEAD, a top five business school; FI, the largest pre-seed accelerator; and our community of 200+ investors. Since 2018, Loyal has invested in 400+ companies in 70+ countries. We support them with 1,000+ advisors, earning loyalty for preferred access to follow-on deals. loyal.vc
2020
Angel Investor
Apr 2020
Amaze Health empowers Americans to take charge of their healthcare. Our main goal is to help our members become better healthcare consumers, so we support them to search for the best price, use their insurance wisely and understand the rules of the healthcare game. With Amaze, our members have direct access to our medical team which allows for telehealth services whenever they need it. But we go way beyond telehealth services. When our members need help with the other parts of healthcare, like insurance questions, medical billing, or finding a local specialist, our team assists every step of the way.
2019
Investor
Apr 2019
Medicus is an AI-based platform that converts health data into an interactive experience with easy-to-understand explanations, personalized health insights and smart wellbeing coaching. Medicus empowers everyone to easily understand their medical and health info, engage them with personalized health insights, and coach them every step of the way to stay or become healthy. Medicus currently covers biometric data, all vitals, full health profile and family history, medications, and the most tested blood, urine and stool markers. Medicus is used by diagnostic labs and health insurance companies to provide patient-friendly health reports and foster continuous and personalized wellbeing coaching. Medicus is building towards a future where the focus on health is part of everyday life: Empowering people to get and remain healthy, helping them every step of the way to recover from illness, and clearly explaining everything to them in order to make the best decision at any point in time. We are a team of technologists, researchers and medical geeks, passionate about health matters and about utilizing and applying the latest in technology to effect positive health changes in peoples lives, and transform healthcare services across the globe. Were based in Vienna with offices in Berlin, Paris, Beirut and Dubai. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter @MedicusAI
2017
Principal - IT & Digital Strategy
Jul 2017
MTN is a pan-African mobile operator with the strategic intent of ‘Leading digital solutions for Africa’s progress’. We have 288 million customers in 17 markets and are inspired by our belief that everyone deserves the benefits of a modern, connected life. Inspired by Africa’s potential, we are committed to bridging the digital divide, furthering financial inclusion and advancing the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through our core business activities and our support to governments, communities, and customers. We were established in South Africa at the dawn of democracy in 1994 as a leader in transformation. Since then, we have grown by investing in sophisticated communication infrastructure, developing new technologies and by harnessing the talent of our diverse people to offer services to communities in Africa and the Middle East. Our strategic intent is Ambition 2025: Leading digital solutions for Africa’s progress, harnessing the power of MTN – our leading brand, footprint, connectivity infrastructure and technology platforms. Our strategy is anchored in building the largest and most valuable platform business with a clear focus on Africa. This rests on a scale connectivity and infrastructure business – mobile and fixed access networks in the consumer, enterprise and wholesale segments. We are accelerating implementation through partnerships. Our strategy is supported and funded through enhanced cost and capex efficiencies.
2004
Associate Projects
May 2004
Covansys is an information technology and services company based out of India.