"He (Tata) clearly wanted us to launch and grow the network in India first before taking it overseas. Mr Tata's investment in MUrgency will help attract leading talent to the company and major partnerships beyond India," MUrgency Inc Fonder
The firm was founded in 2014 in Silicon Valley and was incubated out of Stanford ChangeLabs; it has also recently received investments from Kris Gopalakrishnan and Axilor Ventures, led by S D Shibulal.
In India, the service was launched in Tricity area in Punjab in February this year, with a network of 36 hospital emergency rooms, over 40 ambulances and more than 350 medical professionals.
Similar services are also said to be expected to be launched in Amritsar and Jalandhar towards the end of this month, and cover the entire state of Punjab by next month.
Long term goals include covering all India by 2018 and the world by 2020.
As per the company claims, emergency response can be made available with just one tap on a mobile phone in less than nine minutes in urban areas.
"While our primary goal is to develop emergency medical response network, we are widening our service to be an inclusive and comprehensive medical service platform on your mobile phone. The app is live on iOS and Android app stores and several features are accessible across the world already," Sweta Mangal, Director, Global Emergency Response, MUrgency said.
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