Funding profile · Emergency medical transport

HelpNow

An Indian ambulance dispatch startup with no SEC filings to check, since it has no US entity. What exists instead is a set of aggregator estimates that disagree with each other, a Y Combinator profile marked Inactive, and a corporate registry that has not caught up.

$139KTotal raised across four rounds, per PitchBook
$125KTotal raised in one 2020 round, per Tracxn (disagrees with PitchBook)
$13.7KY Combinator accelerator investment, Mar 2020, per PitchBook
Rs 2.4Cr+Raised via Ketto crowdfunding for free rides, not equity (2022)

Data as of September 25, 2026. Company-reported figures are labeled. No SEC Form D exists for this company.

Rounds at a glance

When Round Amount Investors Source
End of freshman year Seed offer, declined $150,000 offered, not accepted Not named Founder interview
Jan 2019 Angel (individual) Not disclosed An IIT Bombay alum, marketing and strategy head at Reliance Jio, plus two other alumni, per founders PitchBook, founder interview
Mar 17, 2020 Accelerator investment $13,700 Y Combinator PitchBook
Jul 1, 2020 Early Stage VC Not disclosed Not named by PitchBook PitchBook
2020, unspecified Seed, single round total $125,000 Y Combinator Tracxn
Feb 19, 2024 Later Stage VC Not disclosed Enrission India Capital, Calm Ventures, Emles Venture Partners, Liquid 2 Ventures, Soma Capital, among 9 total investors listed PitchBook
2022 Crowdfunding, not equity Rs 2.4 crore-plus of a Rs 2.5 crore goal 4,700-plus individual contributors via Ketto Independent

What the filings show

There is nothing to show here in the usual sense. HelpNow has no US entity, so it has never filed a Form D with the SEC, and a full text search of EDGAR for “HelpNow” returns zero Form D results. As an Indian private limited company, its capital raising would instead show up, if at all, in filings with India’s Ministry of Corporate Affairs, principally the return of allotment (Form PAS-3) that a private company files after issuing new shares. This profile did not locate a public, line-item breakdown of any such filing for Pentanami Technologies Private Limited, HelpNow’s legal entity. What is available instead is a corporate registration record, not a funding record: the company was incorporated on January 24, 2019, with an authorized capital of Rs 1 crore and a paid up capital of Rs 67,65,310, per aggregator copies of its MCA filing.

Reading the filings

  1. Two aggregators, two different totals.PitchBook puts total funding at $139,000 across four labeled rounds from 2019 to 2024. Tracxn puts it at $125,000 in a single 2020 round attributed only to Y Combinator. Neither number can be checked against a primary filing, because none exists publicly for this company. The gap, about $14,000, is close to PitchBook’s own $13,700 YC figure, which raises the possibility that Tracxn counts only the YC check and PitchBook adds an angel round on top. That is a guess, not a confirmed reconciliation.
  2. The Y Combinator number itself is unusually small.Y Combinator’s standard deal in the 2020 batch cycle was $125,000 for a fixed equity stake, later evolving to a mix of note and equity. PitchBook’s $13,700 figure for the March 2020 accelerator investment does not match that standard amount. It may be only the priced-equity portion of a larger note-plus-equity deal, or an aggregator error. Either way, it is worth flagging rather than repeating as fact.
  3. A 2024 round exists with no public announcement.PitchBook lists a Later Stage VC round dated February 19, 2024, naming five of nine investors: Enrission India Capital, Calm Ventures, Emles Venture Partners, Liquid 2 Ventures and Soma Capital. No amount is given, and this profile found no press release, blog post or news article announcing it. A round with investors on record but no public confirmation and no filing is the weakest kind of evidence in this file, and it is presented here only because a named data provider carries it.
  4. The crowdfunding money is a different pool entirely.The Rs 2.4 crore-plus raised on Ketto in 2021 and 2022 funded free ambulance rides for slum residents and the poor during Covid. It carries no equity, no cap table entry and no investor of record. Folding it into a funding total would overstate the company’s venture capital raised.
  5. The clearest recent signal is not a filing at all.Y Combinator’s own company page lists HelpNow’s status as “Inactive,” and the company’s website returns a 404 error as of this writing. Corporate registry aggregators, by contrast, still list the underlying legal entity as “Active,” with no strike-off or voluntary dissolution recorded. A company can sit in that gap for a long time before its MCA status catches up with its operating reality.

Commercial signals

Signal Detail Source type
Operating cities Reported live in Mumbai and suburbs, with expansion into Bangalore and Delhi during the Covid period. Independent
Website status gethelpnow.in and www.gethelpnow.in both return HTTP 404 as of Sep 25, 2026. Public record
Employee count Y Combinator profile: team size 50. Tracxn: 6 employees as of Aug 2025, down 60 percent year over year. LinkedIn: 11 to 50 band. Sources disagree
Revenue Seedtable estimates $6 million to $15 million; Tracxn shows a revenue band of Rs 0 to 10 crore as of Mar 31, 2025. Both are third-party estimates, not company-disclosed figures. Independent estimate
YC platform status Listed “Inactive,” Winter 2020 batch. All three founders flagged as not currently active YC users. Public record

What to watch

  • A Form PAS-3 or strike-off filing with India’s MCA that would either confirm the 2024 round PitchBook lists or close out the entity formally.
  • Whether corporate registry aggregators update Pentanami Technologies Private Limited’s status to match Y Combinator’s “Inactive” tag.
  • Any public confirmation, from HelpNow or its listed 2024 investors, of the amount and terms of the February 2024 round.
  • Whether the gethelpnow.in domain is renewed or allowed to lapse.

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Sources

  1. Public recordY Combinator company profile for HelpNow, status Inactive, batch Winter 2020Y Combinator · captured Dec 3, 2025
  2. Public recordSEC EDGAR full text search for “HelpNow,” Form D, zero resultsSEC EDGAR · accessed Sep 25, 2026
  3. Public recordPentanami Technologies Private Limited, corporate filing summaryTofler, sourced from MCA · updated Aug 20, 2026
  4. Public recordPentanami Technologies Private Limited, corporate filing summaryInsider Biz, sourced from MCA · accessed Sep 25, 2026
  5. Public recordDirect check of gethelpnow.in and www.gethelpnow.in, both returning HTTP 404Accessed Sep 25, 2026
  6. IndependentHelpNow company profile and funding roundsPitchBook · accessed Jul 31, 2026
  7. IndependentHelpNow company profile, legal entity and funding dataTracxn · accessed 2026
  8. IndependentHelpNow company profileSeedtable · accessed Jul 13, 2026
  9. IndependentHelpNow, a 24×7 Ambulance Network For India’s COVID-19 PatientsKetto blog · Mar 16, 2022
  10. InterviewHelpNow founder interview, funding and milestones sectionInsight, IIT Bombay student media body · Jul 6, 2020
  11. CompanyHelpNow company pageLinkedIn · accessed 2026

Compiled from SEC, MCA-sourced corporate registry and Y Combinator public records and published reports as of September 25, 2026. HelpNow has no US entity and no SEC Form D on file; funding figures here come from third-party data providers and a founder interview, not from a regulatory filing, and are labeled accordingly. Healthcare Venture Capital Fund holds no position in HelpNow. This page is not an offer to sell or a recommendation to buy any security.