Butterfly Learnings raises Rs 65 Cr funding led by Inflexor Ventures

Butterfly Learnings, an Indian paediatric behavioural healthcare platform focused on children with neurodevelopmental conditions, has raised Rs 65 crore in a pre-Series B funding round led by Inflexor Ventures, a venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology companies.

Existing investors Enzia Ventures, Insitor Impact Asia Fund and IIMA Ventures also participated in the round.

The fresh capital will be used to expand Butterfly Learnings’ network of centres across India, strengthen its technology platform and commercialise its proprietary early autism screening solution. The company also plans to invest in artificial intelligence capabilities, broaden partnerships with hospitals and paediatricians, and scale its in-house therapist training programme.

Founded by paediatric neurologist Dr Sonam Kothari and healthcare entrepreneur Dr Abhishek Sen, Butterfly Learnings was created to address a gap in India’s neurodevelopmental care system. The platform combines therapy, diagnostics, digital therapeutics, inclusive schooling and technology-enabled interventions under one umbrella, aiming to provide families with a more coordinated care pathway. The company currently operates more than 90 centres across 22 Indian cities.

The investment comes at a time when awareness of autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and learning disabilities is rising in India. Yet access to specialist care remains uneven. Butterfly Learnings estimates that nearly 45 million children in the country live with neurodevelopmental conditions, while only a small proportion receive timely intervention because of delayed diagnosis, fragmented care pathways and a shortage of trained professionals. 

Dr Kothari said the company’s founding question was not whether families needed support, because “they desperately did”, but why existing systems continued to fail them. She argued that the answer was “always the same - fragmentation”, with diagnosis, therapy and schooling often functioning independently instead of as part of a coordinated treatment model. 

She added that Butterfly Learnings was built to take responsibility for the “whole journey”, combining standardised clinical protocols with data and technology while maintaining empathy and transparency. The new investment, she said, would allow the company to bring that model to many more children. 

For Inflexor Ventures, the investment reflects growing investor interest in specialised healthcare platforms that combine technology with measurable outcomes. Partner Pratip Mazumdar said the founders had built a platform that was already demonstrating how standardized, outcome-tracked care could be delivered at scale.