Dognosis Raises $1.5M Pre-Seed for Cancer Detection

Dognosis

Dognosis is a deep-tech startup in Bangalore decoding canine cognition to reveal the hidden world of scent. Our vision is a world where we have cracked the olfactory code of disease, making detecting disease as easy as breathing. Our mission is to save lives by detecting disease early and advance humanity towards truly proactive and preventative medicine. Our work revolves around increasing the bandwidth of human-canine collaboration, allowing us to catch the scent of disease at scale. Our first goal is to solve for early cancer detection by pioneering a multi-cancer breath-based test - BreathEasy - that will be ultra-affordable, highly accurate, and super accessible. We're always on the lookout for passionate and ambitious people to work with us. Feel free to say hi to woof@dognosis.tech

Brilliance Cosmocare

Brilliance began in 2016, inside a single clinic in Andheri West, Mumbai. It did not begin in a laboratory or a boardroom. It began with real patients and a problem our founder, Dr. Ashok Patel, kept seeing again and again. People were being sold treatments before anyone had properly examined their skin or understood their concerns. Some arrived confused. Others had spent money without seeing results. A few had been left worse off than when they started. Dr. Patel believed people deserved better. That belief became the foundation of Brilliance: understand the person first, diagnose the concern carefully, and only then recommend a treatment or product. Brilliance Clinic became the heart of this approach, offering doctor-led skin, hair and aesthetic treatments built around careful examination, not a menu of packages. In 2024, Brilliance Cosmocare grew from another problem we witnessed closely. Patients were achieving results in the clinic, only to unknowingly compromise them at home by using unsuitable skincare. So we created products designed by the same doctors, guided by the same clinical thinking and developed for the same skin we treat every day. One principle connects everything we do: there must be a genuine clinical reason behind every treatment and every product we recommend. If something is not right for you, we would rather lose the sale than lose your trust. We are building India’s most trusted doctor-led skin health company, one honest diagnosis at a time.