Funding profile · Diagnostics, India
Redcliffe Labs
About $115 million reported across four rounds since 2021. One Form D on file in the United States, for $46,933,880 sold to 15 investors. Here is the arithmetic, and where filing and announcement part company.
Data as of September 22, 2026. Company-reported figures are labeled.
Rounds at a glance
| When | Round | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2021 | Pre Series A | about $2M | Alkemi Venture Partners, Y Combinator, LetsVenture | Reported |
| Apr 2021 | Series A | $10M | Not itemised in coverage | Reported |
| Jan to May 2022 | Series B | $61M announced; $46,933,880 sold per Form D | LeapFrog Investments (lead), HealthQuad, Schroders, LC Nueva, Growth Spark Ventures, Chiratae Ventures, Alkemi Venture Partners | Form D + press |
| Sep 2024 | Series C | $42M | IFU (lead, $20M), LeapFrog ($15M), HealthQuad, Spark Growth Ventures | Reported |
| Oct 2024 | Acquisition of Celara Diagnostics, Bengaluru | up to Rs 60 crore, about $7M | Two Bengaluru centres | Reported |
What the filings show
Redcliffe Lifetech Inc · Form D · filed Aug 8, 2022
- First sale
- Jan 10, 2022
- Offered
- $46,933,880 equity
- Sold
- $46,933,880 · $0 remaining
- Investors
- 15 · average about $3,128,925
- Minimum investment
- $102,500
- Exemption
- Rule 506(b), no non-accredited investors
- Sales compensation
- o3 Capital Global Private Limited · $1,540,097 commission, $0 finders fees
- Revenue range
- No Revenues
- Related persons
- Aditya Kandoi, director, Delhi
- Issuer
- Delaware corporation, incorporated 2021
- Filing
- SEC EDGAR, CIK 0001941551
Redcliffe Lifetech Inc · Form D/A · filed Aug 9, 2022
- Change
- Revenue range corrected to $5,000,001 to $25,000,000
- Amounts
- Unchanged: $46,933,880 offered, $46,933,880 sold, 15 investors
- Signed by
- Aditya Kandoi, director, Aug 9, 2022
- Filing
- SEC EDGAR, accession 0001941551-22-000003
Reading the filings
- The notice was seven months late.First sale was January 10, 2022. The Form D reached EDGAR on August 8, 2022, 210 days later. Regulation D asks for the notice within 15 days of the first sale. The round was announced on May 6, three months before the filing appeared.
- Fifteen cheques, about $3.13 million each.$46,933,880 divided by 15 investors is $3,128,925. The stated minimum was $102,500, about a thirtieth of that average. The named participants are institutions.
- The announcement and the filing differ by about $14 million.The Series B was reported at $61 million by the Economic Times, Entrackr and Inc42. The Form D records $46,933,880 offered and the same amount sold, nothing remaining. The gap is $14,066,120, about 23 percent. A Form D covers only what the Delaware issuer sold under Regulation D; capital raised into the Indian operating company, or under another exemption, would not appear. The gap is not a shortfall, but the US filing is not the whole round.
- The revenue box was fixed the next day.The original filing ticked No Revenues. The amendment, one day later, ticked $5,000,001 to $25,000,000. Operating revenue for the year to March 2022 was later reported at Rs 130 crore, which fits that bracket. Three months earlier, founder Dheeraj Jain had told the Economic Times the annualised run rate was $55 million to $60 million and that he expected $100 million by September 2022. The bracket the company certified sits well below the run rate it described to reporters, and FY23 revenue came in at Rs 313.86 crore.
- The broker took 3.28 percent.o3 Capital Global Private Limited, named by Inc42 as financial advisor on the Series B, is listed as receiving $1,540,097 of sales commission, 3.28 percent of the amount sold. Finders fees were zero and no proceeds went to officers or directors.
- One name on the notice, and it is not the then chief executive.The only related person on both filings is Aditya Kandoi, a director at a Delhi address. Dheeraj Jain, who ran the company until December 2024, does not appear. The Series C governance additions, Ankur Shah and Alka Saxena, came two years later and have no Form D of their own.
- Nothing has been filed since.The $42 million Series C closed in September 2024 and no Form D followed under CIK 0001941551. If it went into the Indian entity, or was raised under Section 4(a)(2), none would be required. On the US record this company has raised once.
Commercial signals
| Signal | Detail | Source type |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue | Rs 419 crore FY25, up 20 percent. Registrar of Companies statements show Rs 348.38 crore FY24 and Rs 313.86 crore FY23. | Public record |
| Losses | Rs 345 crore FY23, Rs 250 crore FY24 on the filed accounts. EBITDA margin reported at minus 21 percent in FY25 against minus 38 percent. | Company-stated |
| Cash | Cash and bank balances of Rs 15.87 crore and current assets of Rs 89.64 crore at FY24, before the Series C. | Public record |
| Accreditation | Noida facility listed as NABL accredited in the CGHS empanelment record. The company site claims labs are NABL compliant from day one, which is a different thing. | Wording differs |
| Consolidation | Celara Diagnostics, Bengaluru, board approved at up to Rs 60 crore in October 2024. The Series C release said talks with other chains were advanced. | Independent |
| Scale | 80 labs, over 2,000 collection centres, 220 cities, 2.5 million cases in FY25, over 70 percent of volume from Tier II and beyond. Not audited. | Company-stated |
What to watch
- Any new Form D under CIK 0001941551. None has been filed since August 2022.
- Registrar of Companies filings for FY25 and FY26, and whether they match the press releases.
- The Rs 560 crore FY26 target and the claim of EBITDA positive quarters from the second half of FY26.
- The IPO question. VCCircle reported in October 2024 that the timeline had been pushed, but the article is paywalled and the revised date is not in the public excerpt.
- Further acquisitions, which the company says it is pursuing and has completed twice.
The Redcliffe Labs story on Healthcare DiscoveryHealthcare Discovery
Related companies
Sources
- Public recordForm D, Redcliffe Lifetech Inc, accession 0001941551-22-000002
- Public recordForm D/A, Redcliffe Lifetech Inc, accession 0001941551-22-000003
- Public recordCGHS empanelment entry, Redcliffe labs, Noida
- IndependentRedcliffe Lifetech raises $61 Mn led by LeapFrog
- IndependentRedcliffe Lifetech raises $61 million led by LeapFrog
- IndependentLeapFrog Leads $61 Mn Series B Funding In Redcliffe
- IndependentRedcliffe Labs raises $42 Mn in Series C round
- IndependentRedcliffe Labs crosses Rs 350 Cr revenue in FY24
- IndependentRedcliffe Labs posts Rs 419 Cr revenue in FY25
- IndependentRedcliffe Labs CEO Kandoi on IPO timeline
- IndependentRedcliffe Labs acquires Celara Diagnostics
Compiled from SEC and other public records and published reports as of September 22, 2026. Form D notices report offerings under Regulation D; amounts reflect the filing date. Indian rupee figures are reported as filed or published and are not converted. Healthcare Venture Capital Fund holds no position in Redcliffe Lifetech Inc or Redcliffe Labs. This page is not an offer to sell or a recommendation to buy any security.
