New Delhi, Oct. 27 -- Preventive health screening startup Cent has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round comprising equity and debt, led by Blume Ventures and existing investor South Park Commons, the company announced on Tuesday.

The round also saw participation from individual investors, including Arun Sarin, former chief executive of Vodafone, and Srinivas Narayanan, former chief technology officer of OpenAI's business-to-business division, among others.

"Most of the equity raise is going towards improving our research and development," said co-founder Anshul Khandelwal in an interview with Mint. "This means that we'll be building out our bioinformatics platform which combines molecular biology, structural data, functional d...