India’s fast-growing pet healthcare sector has received one of its strongest investor endorsements yet, with Vetic, the Gurugram-based pet healthcare platform founded by Gaurav Ajmera, raising $40 million in a funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
The investment marks a significant moment for India’s organised pet care ecosystem, particularly in veterinary healthcare, a segment that has historically remained fragmented despite the rapid rise in pet ownership across urban India.
The round also saw participation from Vetic’s existing backers, including Greenoaks Capital, Lachy Groom, and JSW Family Office. The company is expected to use the fresh capital to expand its clinic network, strengthen at-home veterinary services, grow its veterinary workforce, deepen pet insurance and wellness offerings, and invest further in technology and artificial intelligence.
From Fragmented Veterinary Care to a Connected Pet Health Network
Founded in 2022, Vetic was built around a challenge familiar to many Indian pet parents: the difficulty of finding consistent, reliable, and accountable veterinary care across clinics, diagnostics, medicines, grooming, and emergency services.
India’s pet care infrastructure has not kept pace with the changing expectations of urban pet owners, who increasingly see pets as family members and expect higher standards of medical care. Vetic is attempting to address this gap by bringing multiple parts of the pet healthcare journey under one integrated platform.
The company currently connects 65+ clinics, 15 round-the-clock emergency facilities, vet-at-home services, an e-pharmacy offering 300+ medicines across 700+ pincodes, and quick-commerce access to 600+ pet products.
This integrated approach is important because veterinary care in India remains highly fragmented. Most pet parents still depend on independent clinics, standalone diagnostic providers, separate pharmacies, and informal referrals during emergencies. Vetic is trying to solve that gap by building continuity of care through digital health records, standardised protocols, and a technology layer that supports triage, diagnostics, follow-ups, and preventive care.
A Founder-Led Mission Born From a Personal Pet Emergency
The company’s origin story is closely tied to founder Gaurav Ajmera’s personal experience with his cat, Simba. Ajmera has said that Simba required 25–30 visits across five or six veterinarians before receiving the correct diagnosis. That experience became the foundation for Vetic’s focus on accountability, continuity, and coordinated care.
Ajmera previously held leadership roles at consumer and healthcare-focused startups, including OYO and Pristyn Care. That operating experience is seen as important for scaling a clinic-led, service-heavy healthcare network in a market where quality, trust, and execution matter deeply.
Vetic now operates across 11+ cities with 250+ veterinarians, offering in-clinic outpatient care, diagnostics, surgeries, emergency care, insurance, wellness plans, pharmacy, and home services.
Why This Funding Matters for India’s Pet Industry
The timing of this funding is significant. India’s pet market is moving beyond food, grooming, and accessories into a more serious healthcare phase. Pet parents are spending more on preventive care, diagnostics, vaccinations, surgeries, wellness plans, and emergency treatment.
India’s pet population is estimated to be around 39 million pets in 2025, including approximately 33 million dogs and 4.5 million cats. With rising urbanisation, smaller family units, growing disposable income, and stronger emotional attachment to companion animals, pet healthcare is becoming a more important part of household spending.
For years, the Indian pet industry’s growth story was led mainly by pet food, grooming, accessories, and online retail. Vetic’s latest funding suggests that investors now see veterinary care, emergency treatment, insurance, and preventive health plans as the next major growth engine.
Technology, AI and Health Records at the Centre of Vetic’s Expansion
A key part of Vetic’s strategy is its proprietary technology platform. The company says its system maintains long-term health records for pets and standardises care protocols across its network.
Vetic is also using artificial intelligence to support pet-parent triage, veterinary diagnostic assistance, and personalised care recommendations through its app. This technology layer could prove important in a country where many pet parents struggle to understand when a symptom is urgent, which specialist to consult, or how to maintain consistent medical history across multiple clinics.
In human healthcare, digital records, diagnostics, pharmacy, insurance, and follow-up care are becoming increasingly integrated. Pet healthcare, however, has lagged behind. Vetic’s bet is that Indian pet parents will pay for a more predictable, transparent, and clinically consistent experience, especially in large urban markets.
Expansion Plans: Clinics, Home Care, Insurance and Veterinary Talent
The new funding is expected to support a wider rollout of Vetic’s services. The company plans to scale its clinic network and veterinary team across in-clinic, home, and virtual care.
Vetic also aims to expand its Vet at Home services nationally and deepen its pet insurance and wellness plan offerings. These services could help bring more structure to preventive healthcare, making regular check-ups, vaccinations, diagnostics, and emergency support more accessible to pet parents.
The company currently has more than 60,000 subscribed members, giving it a strong base for recurring healthcare services such as wellness plans, pharmacy, diagnostics, and insurance-linked offerings.
Growth Comes With Execution Pressure
Like many fast-scaling healthcare and consumer-service startups, Vetic’s growth also comes with rising costs. The company’s operating revenue reportedly grew strongly in FY25, but losses also widened as it invested in clinics, technology, manpower, and expansion.
This highlights the central challenge ahead. Building a trusted pet healthcare network is capital-intensive. Clinics require trained veterinarians, diagnostic infrastructure, medical equipment, pharmacy inventory, emergency capacity, and strict operational discipline.
For Vetic, the real test will not only be how fast it expands, but how consistently it can maintain clinical quality, service reliability, and pet-parent trust across multiple cities.
PNN View: A Defining Moment for Organised Pet Healthcare in India
Vetic’s $40 million funding round is more than another startup investment headline. It signals that pet healthcare in India is emerging as a serious and scalable consumer-health category.
The Indian pet industry has already seen strong growth in pet food, grooming, e-commerce, and accessories. The next phase appears to be healthcare: diagnostics, emergency care, insurance, home visits, preventive plans, and digital medical records.
For pet parents, the promise is clear: fewer disconnected clinic visits, better medical history tracking, faster access to emergency care, and more confidence in treatment decisions.
For the industry, the challenge is equally clear: pet healthcare must become more professional, transparent, and clinically accountable.
Vetic now has the capital, investor backing, and market timing to lead that transition. The harder task will be execution—building a network that can scale without losing the trust that every pet parent places in a veterinarian when their animal is unwell.
Pets News Network will continue tracking how this funding shapes India’s pet healthcare sector, especially in emergency care, pet insurance, veterinary workforce development, and access beyond major metros.
