B-Arm Medical Technologies, a Tamil Nadu-based healthcare startup, has raised Rs 4.8 crore in a pre-Series A funding round led by Mudhal Partners (Zoho family), with participation from other high net worth individual investors.

The round takes the startup’s total capital raised to approximately Rs 9 crore, through a combination of debt and equity.

Notably, Mudhal Partners is led by Kumar Vembu, a co-founder of Zoho.

B-Arm said the funds will support expansion, product innovation, brand growth, and wider reach across India, with the next phase focused mainly on strengthening its presence in women's healthcare.

B-Arm's focus on women's health comes out of its co-founder's own experience.

SruthiSri, a biomedical engineer and a mother of three, went through pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum recovery and breastfeeding, and found that the difficulty was matched by how little any of it was openly discussed.

Post-delivery soreness, breastfeeding problems, pregnancy & intimate-health concerns, she has said, were treated as things women were simply expected to manage as part of motherhood.

Barathram said watching those experiences led him to approach the problem differently and to ask whether the couple's engineering background could be used to build practical, accessible products designed around what Indian women actually needed.

B-Arm said its aim is to understand problems women often endure quietly and provide solutions their products covering every stage of womanhood from puberty to menopause.

B-Arm's position is that many of these issues stay under-discussed or treated as taboo, with the result that women often do not know solutions exist for problems they have accepted as normal.

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