Simply Blood

What Simply Blood does

SimplyBlood is an India-based, pre-launch blood donation platform that operates as an initiative under the Change With One Foundation, a nonprofit foundation. It is designed to connect individuals and families seeking blood (seekers) with nearby voluntary donors in real time, replacing the ad hoc WhatsApp-forward model that currently dominates blood sourcing in India. The platform exposes a 60-second, one-tap request flow for seekers (no signup wall) and a 5-step donation workflow for donors, supported by three in-house AI agents: an Anti-Fraud Detection agent that screens every request in 2–5 minutes, a Smart Donor Matching agent that pairs donors to requests by location, blood group, and timing, and a Health Fit Agent that tracks the 3-month safe-donation interval and notifies donors when they become eligible again. Distribution is web-only (simplyblood.com), and the platform leverages a community ambassador program and a donor referral scheme to drive grassroots network density.

The business is structured as a social-impact initiative rather than a traditional venture-backed startup. There are no disclosed pricing models, revenue streams, funding rounds, or headcount figures, and the entity has 0 active community members and 0 lives reached as of the June 14, 2026 pre-launch announcement. The company is publicly scheduled to launch nationwide in India on August 15, 2026, anchored to World Blood Donor Day (June 14) and India's Independence Day for cultural and earned-media resonance. A unique 'One Donation, One Tree' environmental program, which has already planted 2,400 native, geo-tagged saplings and targets 8,000 more in the first year, is embedded into the donation flow as a non-monetary donor incentive.

Founder Kiran Verma leads the initiative, which the source material also flags as a 'for_profit' firmographic — a tension that is not resolved in the available data given the nonprofit-foundation parent and absence of any disclosed monetization. The single-country operating geography (India), the dependence on the parent foundation for organizational backing, the unproven cold-start network, and the unvalidated AI agents together define the central risk profile for a prospective investor or acquirer.

Name

Simply Blood

Legal name

SimplyBlood

Website

https://simplyblood.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

SimplyBlood is an India-based, pre-launch AI-powered blood donation platform operating as an initiative under the Change With One Foundation, connecting individual blood seekers with nearby verified donors in real time via anti-fraud, matching, and eligibility-tracking AI agents, with a nationwide launch planned for August 15, 2026.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Blood Donation Platform

NAICS

Blood and Organ Banks (621991), Voluntary Health Organizations (813212)

akta.pro primary industry

Blood, Organ & Tissue Donation Organizations (BPAGACAJ)

Keywords

• Blood donation platform
• AI donor matching
• Volunteer donor network
• Health eligibility tracking
• Location-based matching

Headquarters

HQ city

New Delhi

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

SimplyBlood operates a virtual blood donation platform that connects blood seekers (patients and families) with verified volunteer donors in India through a 60-second request flow and a 5-step donor journey. The platform uses AI-powered agents for anti-fraud detection, smart donor matching, and donor health eligibility tracking. It also runs the One Donation, One Tree program, which plants a native sapling in the donor's name for every verified donation.

Product overview

SimplyBlood is a single unified blood donation platform designed for how India actually asks for help. The core platform connects blood seekers with donors through a 60-second request process for patients and a 5-step donation workflow for donors. The platform incorporates three AI agents (Anti-Fraud Detection, Smart Donor Matching, and Health Fit Agent) and includes the One Donation, One Tree environmental initiative. Users can access early registration, and community ambassadors can lead local blood donation efforts in their cities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SimplyBlood Platform India's virtual blood donation platform connecting blood seekers with verified volunteer donors in real time via a 60-second seeker request flow, 5-step donor journey, and AI agents for fraud detection, smart donor matching, and health eligibility tracking. Includes the One Donation, One Tree environmental initiative.

Quantifiable outcome

• India faces a daily shortfall of thousands of blood units — 1 in 7 hospital patients needs blood.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• One FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 June 2026SimplyBlood is described as 'A Change With One Foundation initiative.' The One Foundation appears to be the parent or strategic partner behind the platform, providing organizational backing for both the blood donation network and the One Donation, One Tree environmental program. The partnership is foundational to the mission and brand identity of SimplyBlood.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Friends2Support: Established India-wide online blood donor directory with registered voluntary donors searchable by city and blood group. Direct peer in the Indian blood-donation marketplace category, with a longer operating history but a less AI-driven matching approach.
• BloodConnect: India-based youth-led nonprofit operating a blood donation platform connecting donors and recipients across Indian cities. Directly comparable on geography, donor-seeker marketplace model, and social-mission positioning.
• Sankalp India Foundation: Indian nonprofit running structured blood donation drives, donor registries, and hospital partnerships, particularly in Karnataka. Comparable mission, donor-verification orientation, and hospital-coordination focus.
• Blood Warriors: Indian NGO running a verified blood donor network with mobile-first donor registration and hospital coordination. Comparable on the verified-donor, hyperlocal model and nonprofit operating structure.

Broad incumbents

• Give Blood (NHS Blood and Transplant): UK national blood service operating a publicly run donor appointment, eligibility, and matching platform. Comparable on verified-donor, eligibility-tracking, and location-aware matching capabilities, but as a public-sector incumbent.
• American Red Cross Blood Services: National-scale blood collection organization with a sophisticated donor scheduling and eligibility platform. Comparable verified-donor, eligibility-tracked model, but serves as a broad incumbent across the entire U.S. blood supply rather than a peer-to-peer marketplace.
• e-RaktKosh: Government of India initiative providing a centralized blood bank management and inventory information system across licensed blood banks. Broad incumbent serving similar seekers and hospitals but at the blood-bank/inventory level rather than peer-to-peer donor matching.
• OneBlood: Large U.S. nonprofit blood collection and distribution organization operating a donor scheduling and matching platform. Comparable operating model (verified donors, mobile scheduling, location-aware requests) at much larger scale in a different geography.

Emerging players

• HemoLink: Earlier-stage blood donor matching app focused on real-time, location-based donor requests. Comparable on the marketplace mechanics (seekers posting requests, geo-matched donors) but at a smaller scale and without SimplyBlood's fraud-verification or tree-planting features.

Others

• Change With One Foundation: Parent nonprofit foundation backing SimplyBlood, described as the organizational sponsor of the platform. Thematically related as the umbrella entity rather than a competitor; included to capture the ecosystem relationship.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/simply_blood
• Facebookfacebook.com/simplyblood
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/simplyblood

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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