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Dr. Abhishek Dhawan
Co-Founder & CEO
Company
Forest Bloom
A medtech company out of the Chandigarh region, building the vascular-access assist we wished existed.
Mission
Making the first attempt reliable
Vein access shouldn't depend on luck or on which clinician happens to be free. Forest Bloom exists to make the first attempt reliable — reducing pain, waste, and risk — while keeping skilled clinicians firmly at the centre of care.
Our story
Why we started
Almost everyone who has spent time near a hospital bed has seen it: a needle that misses, a second attempt, a third, a patient wincing while a busy team tries again. The difficult stick is rarely a failure of skill — it is the reality that veins are hard to see, harder still in fragile or dehydrated patients, and that the person best placed to help isn't always the person who happens to be free.
We started Forest Bloom because that first attempt matters more than the system usually admits. A confident first stick means less pain, less wasted consumable, less delay to treatment, and less quiet erosion of a patient's trust. We wanted to give every clinician — not only the most practised one on the ward — a clearer view of what lies beneath the skin, and a steadier path to the vein.
Building from the Chandigarh region, we set out to combine clinical insight with serious engineering rather than treating either as an afterthought. VeinMate Assist is deliberately positioned as AI-guided and clinician-executed: the device images and guides, and the clinician performs the access. That framing is not a caveat — it is the whole point. Our job is to make the expert better, and to keep the human hand and human judgement exactly where they belong.
The name
Where the name comes from
Hold a leaf up to the light and you see it: a trunk that splits into branches, branches into ever-finer veins. Look beneath human skin with near-infrared light and the pattern repeats — the same branching structure, carrying life through a body instead of a leaf.
That equivalence is the heart of the Forest Bloom identity. Leaf venation and human veins share the very structure our device's near-infrared imaging reveals. A forest blooms along the same branching logic that runs through every forearm — and it is that logic we help clinicians see and follow.
The team
The team
RG
Rahul Gupta
Co-Founder & CTO
GK
Prof. Gnana Ezhil Krishnan
Biomedical Engineer
Built the Smart ENT Workstation at IITM Research Park.
Supported by a dedicated cross-functional engineering team spanning machine learning and computer vision, embedded systems and firmware, backend infrastructure, and clinical-workflow frontend — led by a product technical head accountable for end-to-end delivery.
How we work
How we work
Clinician-first
We build tools that make experts better, not tools that try to replace them. The clinician performs the access; the device gives them a clearer view and a steadier path. Every design decision is measured against whether it helps a real clinical team do their job.
Honest about status
Targets are targets, prototypes are prototypes, and pending is pending. We say which is which. Performance figures are engineering targets under validation, and our regulatory work follows the CDSCO Class B pathway — in progress, not approved. We would rather under-claim than mislead.
Engineered to ship
Production-grade parts and real-world workflows from day one — not a demo that can't leave the bench. We design for the ward, the clinic, and the constraints of everyday use, so that what we prove in testing is the same thing a clinician can eventually rely on.
The engineering disciplines
What it takes to build VeinMate Assist
Reliable vascular-access guidance is not one problem but several, meeting at the patient's skin. Our cross-functional team brings the disciplines together under a single accountable product technical head.
- Machine learning & computer vision — turning near-infrared imagery into clear, usable guidance.
- Embedded systems & firmware — running that intelligence on production-grade hardware at the point of care.
- Backend infrastructure — secure data, connectivity over Wi-Fi, and the services that support the device.
- Clinical-workflow frontend — an interface that fits how real clinical teams actually work.
Led by a product technical head accountable for end-to-end delivery, so the disciplines ship as one coherent product rather than a set of parts.
Work with us
Join us or partner with us
We're a growing team, and we build with people who care about the same thing we do: making reliable vascular access ordinary rather than exceptional. If that's you — a clinician with hard-won insight, an engineer who wants their work to matter at the bedside, or a partner who shares the goal — we'd like to hear from you.
There's no substitute for a conversation. Tell us how you'd like to be involved and we'll take it from there.
Partner with us
Build the future of vascular access with us.
If you're a clinician, health system, or investor who believes the first attempt should be the only attempt, we'd like to talk.
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