Digital health start-up Tilak raises €2.5mm in early venture round

Digital health start-up Tilak Healthcare (prescribed therapeutic mobile games) raised €2.5mm ($2.7mm) in venture funding through an undisclosed early round, assumed to be its first, from the iBionext Growth Fund. Founded last year, the company is developing a mobile videogame platform used to monitor chronic diseases, with its first application targeting ophthalmology indications. Available through an app on a mobile device, the game--in which the patient completes a series of puzzles--is designed to screen for eye diseases by monitoring physician-defined visual parameters and generating remote notifications to the physician to enable prevention solutions and follow-up care. Tilak will use the proceeds to accelerate the deployment of its platform to doctors and patients.