Social Alpha Market Share Analysis for June 2026

The startup’s Cilika product line, integrated with tablet or smartphone, can capture, record, share, and transmit images and videos to make diagnostics more accessible Pratik Ghosh When MedPrime Technologies, a healthtech startup, recently raised seed capital with Social Alpha leading the funding round, it became evident that their Cilika microscopes are poised to go places. In praise for MedPrime’s innovation, Manoj Kumar, Founder and CEO of Social Alpha, had called it a “great leap forward in the use of digital tools to create access to high-quality services and help pathologists with an efficient decision-support workflow”. But how exactly will this tablet/smartphone-integrated digital microscope revolutionize the field of pathology? Greeshma Unnikrishnan, chief operating officer, MedPrime Technologies, recounts a heart-breaking story to illustrate how the startup can address the lack of availability of quality pathology services across the country and, in turn, save lives! “Soon after giving birth in a remote village on the Indo-Nepal border, a woman developed high fever, and the neighbourhood doctor prescribed a blood test. Since the local pathology labs didn’t have access to an MD pathologist, the samples had to be physically transported to Delhi for analysis. Meanwhile, the newborn too fell ill and eventually both the...