Tushar Vashisht
Co-founder & CEO, Healthify. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Tushar Vashisht is the co-founder and CEO of digital health and fitness platform Healthify (formerly HealthifyMe). Before founding the company in 2012, he worked as a corporate finance analyst at Deutsche Bank and was an early team member on India's Aadhaar project.
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2said about them ↓ Everything Tushar Vashisht said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
HealthifyMe launched Healthify Smart, the first consumer AI product, in 2018
“And we launched the world's first consumer AI product called Healthify Smart.”
Vashisht: Global obesity will reach three billion people by 2030
“I mean, the world had doubled in obesity between 2002 1015, and now it's tripled to three billion people by 2030.”
HealthifyMe introduced calorie counting to India and remains the market leader
“I think we introduced Calvary Counting to this part of the world and we certainly are the number one in that space even now”
Early-stage founders should expect to run out of money at least once
“So to young founders, I oftentimes say that obviously you'll run out of money once, just be ready for it. It's going to come whenever it comes like high five each other because you'd be like, okay, I checked that box.”
Building an Indian healthtech startup is relatively easy today
“I think building in India for health tech was probably a tough thing to do five, seven years ago. It's probably a relatively easy thing to do right now.”
The average HealthifyMe user loses five kilograms in twelve weeks
“An average customer loses about five kgs of weight in 12 weeks, our average HbA-C counts go down from around 8.1 to six and change within a period of six months, right?”
HealthifyMe's VaccinateMe platform helped 25 million people find COVID-19 vaccines
“And then with Bertie who launched under-forty-five and we actually hired them and we combined our forces, we've helped twenty-five million people find their vaccine”
HealthifyMe hits 25 million users and nears 30 million
“We have hit twenty-five million so far closing to 30 now.”
HealthifyMe expects to cross $50 million ARR by January 2022
“We are slated to cross fifty million dollars in our annualized run rate revenues by this coming January.”
HealthifyMe helped users lose 10 million pounds during the pandemic
“Just in the pandemic alone, we've helped you know, the world lose about ten million pounds of weight and move to much healthier and fitter outcomes you know, reduce their impact on diabetes, hypertension, PCOS, and cholesterol.”
Founders should establish an advisory board of experienced ex-founders for guidance
“I really strongly endorse that any founder starting a company should probably structure a team of more experienced people who you trust and create a mentor you know, board that can actually guide you. I think that was singularly most important because they've …”
HealthifyMe's ₹1 crore angel round came from Tushar Vashisht's Aadhaar colleagues
“So we took a one crore angel check from some guys who are frankly, who were willing to bet on my track record and whatever I had done at Aadhaar. So most of them were Aadhaar people only.”
HealthifyMe's 2015 seed round took nine months and four term sheets
“I think it took us, like, nine months, because we were in conversations with the fund, who then pulled the term sheet, then we were in conversation with the fund, where we didn't like the guys, we actually backed out, and then there was another fund that came …”
HealthifyMe doubled its revenue annually for the past four to five years
“We've been doubling each year for the last four or five years without fail and with clear metrics that are pointing in the right direction on, you know, profitability on paybacks, et cetera.”
HealthifyMe acquired early paying customers through founder-led phone sales
“First few thousand paying customers, I remember I was making calls to some of our customers who we, you know, who had demonstrated high intent and trying to convince them about our services. So it was initially sales led and with me being the sales guy and a f…”
HealthifyMe scaled monthly revenue from 25 to 67 lakh INR in months
“October 16, we were doing 25 lakhs a month, and we went to an offsite, and, you know, we said, guys, we need to focus on, this coming January has to be a 100,000 dollars a month. And that was an audacious goal to go from 25 lakh to 67 lakhs. Dollar rate was 67…”
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| NEON SHOWLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, Healthify | 1 | 16 | 25% 1/4 | full record on the Neon Show → |