| 5C Network | |
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| Type | Private |
| Industry | |
| Founded | 2014 in Bengaluru, India |
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| Headquarters | , India |
Area served | India |
| Key people | Kalyan Sivasailam (CEO) Syed S. Ahmed (Director) Anand Iyer (COO) |
5C Network is a health technology company, with its headquarters in Bengaluru, that operates a teleradiology network. It runs a cloud-based platform that routes medical imaging from hospitals and diagnostic centres to remote radiologists for diagnostic reporting.
5C Network was founded by Kalyan Sivasailam and Syed S. Ahmed as an online medical diagnostics platform connecting hospitals and diagnostic centres with a network of radiologists. According to the company, its name refers to five participants it aims to connect: patients, physicians, radiologists, hospitals, and artificial intelligence.
In March 2022, the digital health platform Tata 1mg made a strategic investment in the company for an undisclosed amount. In October 2022, 5C Network raised about US$4.6 million in a Series A round led by Celesta Capital, with participation from Unitus Ventures and Axilor Ventures. In April 2024, it raised about US$3 million from the Redwood India Healthcare Fund. The startup-data platform Tracxn records total funding of about US$12.1 million. The company has said its platform delivers radiology reports to about 2,000 hospitals and diagnostic centres across roughly 300 cities in India.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, 5C Network worked with the Defence Research and Development Organisation's Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) and HCG Academics to develop ATMAN AI, an algorithm for screening chest X-rays for findings associated with COVID-19. CAIR-DRDO reported that the algorithm achieved an accuracy of 96.73 per cent on a validation dataset of RT-PCR-positive hospitalised patients.
In February 2023, 5C Network acquired Krayen, a healthtech company based in California that used computer vision and natural language processing, for an undisclosed amount.
In January 2026, 5C Network and BPL Medical Technologies announced a partnership to develop BPL Cortex, an AI-enabled digital radiography product that integrates 5C Network's image-analysis software into BPL's X-ray hardware. The companies described it as the first original equipment manufacturer-embedded artificial intelligence of its kind within an imaging system in India. It was shown at the 78th annual conference of the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association in Hyderabad.