Asit Kumar Vidyarthi

Asit Kumar Vidyarthi is co-founder and chief executive of Prodoc AI, a Bengaluru, India, company that sells hospitals a "Patient Journey OS." The software sits on top of a hospital's existing records, billing and phone systems and uses AI agents to coordinate appointments, follow-ups and referrals.

Industrial Sales Before Healthcare

Vidyarthi studied civil engineering at the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology in Allahabad, now Prayagraj, in Uttar Pradesh, and later completed an executive general management program at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He spent his early career in sales and business development at industrial companies, including Essar Oil, the Aditya Birla Group's Birla White cement business and Everest Industries, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Six Months With Doctors

He started Prodoc AI with Raghuvamshi Thakur, now chief operating officer, in December 2021. The founders did not begin with code. They first spent six months sitting with doctors to test whether the problems they had spotted were real and whether hospitals would pay to fix them, Thakur said at a 2026 conference, as All Health Tech reported.

Their pitch rests on a common problem in Indian hospitals: a patient may call a helpline, message on WhatsApp and then walk into the outpatient department, and each contact lands in a different system. "The opportunity with AI is to connect that context and make the entire journey more intelligent," Vidyarthi said.

Seed Funding From Dr. A. Velumani

In 2026 Prodoc AI raised a seed round of undisclosed size led by the family office of Dr. A. Velumani, who built the diagnostics company Thyrocare, Digital Health News reported. Two other backers, Dr. Kunal Shet and Parth D. Bhasin, joined as existing users of the software. The company says it works with more than 100 hospitals, handles more than one million patient engagements a month and supports more than 50 software integrations. A week before the round it signed an agreement with the Association of Healthcare Providers (India) to help hospitals comply with India's new data protection law.