Happiest Health launched Happiest Digital Health, its fifth business vertical, in Bengaluru on 12 November 2026, with a roadmap to introduce 11 digital healthcare applications over the next 18 months. Happiest Health has committed Rs 500 crore towards technology investments over the next five years, and about 50 percent of that sum is earmarked for digital healthcare. The launch puts the health and wellness knowledge platform into a segment its chairman calls one of the fastest growing in the world.
The new unit aims to bring together digital solutions, continuous health monitoring, personalised guidance and wellness services through an integrated platform. The platform will follow a person’s health over time and give guidance based on that record. The idea is that one platform can hold the record, the guidance and the wellness services together. The 11 applications planned over the next 18 months are the first step in building that platform, and the Rs 500 crore commitment gives the unit the funding to build it.
Happiest Health plans 11 new apps
The 11 applications from Happiest Health will arrive over 18 months, which means a steady flow of new products rather than a single launch. The unit is the fifth business vertical for the company, which began as a health and wellness knowledge platform and has since added other lines of business. Digital health is the newest of those lines, and the one that will take about half of the Rs 500 crore set aside for technology over the next five years.
Ashok Soota, 83, chairman and chief strategy officer of Happiest Health, said digital healthcare was among the fastest-growing segments globally and was expected to reach 1.8 trillion dollars by 2033, growing 25 percent a year. The size of that market is the reason for the investment, and the growth rate is the reason for moving now. Davis Karedan is co-chairman and chief operating officer, and Ravi Joshi is president and chief executive officer of Digital Health, the new unit.
Where the Happiest Health funding comes from
The funding for Happiest Health comes from the proceeds of Ashok Soota’s sale of his stake in Happiest Minds to ITC Infotech. He sold a 22.1 percent stake for about Rs 1,330 crore, in two tranches at Rs 390 and Rs 400 per share, as a precursor to a merger. The sale gave Soota the funds to back the new venture, and the Rs 500 crore committed to technology over five years is part of that larger sum.
Soota also funds the not-for-profit medical research trust SKAN, Scientific Knowledge for Ageing and Neurological Ailments, which recently opened its first campus and plans a 2-lakh square feet facility at about Rs 350 crore. The trust works on ageing and neurological conditions, and its new facility will give it room to grow. The research trust is separate from the digital health business, but both draw on the same source of funding and on Soota’s interest in health.
Research trust and hospital plans
Happiest Health needs between Rs 300 crore and Rs 400 crore as it prepares to move into physical hospitals. The move would take the company from a knowledge platform and a digital health business into running hospitals of its own, which needs far more capital than software. The Rs 300 crore to Rs 400 crore figure shows the scale of the step. The hospital plan is still at the preparation stage, and the digital health launch on 12 November 2026 is the step that comes first.
For now, the company has a new unit, a named leadership team in Davis Karedan and Ravi Joshi, a plan for 11 applications in 18 months, and Rs 500 crore committed to technology over five years. The Bengaluru launch on 12 November 2026 set the Happiest Health plan in motion, and the first of the 11 applications will show how much of it the company can deliver.