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Tushar Vashisht

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Inspired by his own weight gain within a year of returning to India, Vashisht started HealthifyMe in 2012, with Mathew Cherian and Sachin Shenoy as co-founders with "a vision to help Indians be healthier and fitter using online tools". According to him, it is India's "first comprehensive calorie
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32 a day for a month, alongside Mathew Cherian. The duo documented their experience on a blog and went on to advocate for the improvement of the average and poor Indian, especially in the field of nutrition, travel, employment and addiction. They concluded that
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While at HealthifyMe and during their poverty line experiment, Vashisht advocated for better nutrition policies for Indians. He advocated for better protein subsidy for the masses in 2011-12 in front of the
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between 2005 and 2007. His composition "Pehchaan" was the title song of the album released in 2007. The song was featured on America's Best of College A Capella in 2008.
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tracker". The company would later add digital nutritionists and trainers as subscription service. In 2019, it launched
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in Bangalore, where many of the future board members and early investors of HealthifyMe were his colleagues.
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18 million in 2018. In 2019, HealthifyMe was reported to be the top rated Indian startup on
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is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of consumer health app
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Vashisht did his K-12 in different schools in Haryana before graduating from
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Vashisht is a trained Hindustani classical singer and was a member of
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120 a day was the income level required to exit poverty.
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in 2003. He spent his first two college years between
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before shifting to Singapore. In 2009, he joined the
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Karnal
Haryana
India
Bangalore
Karnataka
India
Alma mater
University of Pennsylvania
HealthifyMe
HealthifyMe
Aadhaar
University of Pennsylvania
Karnal
Haryana
ML Madan
Sardar Patel Vidyalaya
New Delhi
Delhi College of Engineering
Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
University of Pennsylvania
Wall Street
BlackRock
Deutsche Bank
San Francisco
Aadhaar
Nandan Nilekani
AI
Google Play Store
Planning Commission

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