chennai blodin a healthtech startup based in chennai has secured an undisclosed amount in preseed funding the deal was facilitated by tamil nadubased startup community platform tamilpreneur led by shyam siddarth and praveen krishna and involved participation of m2p cofounder prabhu rangarajan ippopay cofounder mohan k bitscrunch cofounder vijay pravin and others blod has partnered with several hospitals and blood banks in chennai it has introduced the beta version of its flagship product blod as the first step to meeting hospitals haematology needs the healthcare sector is currently highly unstructured blod simplifies and digitises the daytoday activities of the haematology department of hospitals implementing a simple change like blod makes blood management more efficient and effective blod founder varun nair said blod plans to scale up and invest in infrastructure expansions and technology stacks with the capital raised it aims at developing a centralised blood management system