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Healthify bets AI coaches scale metabolic care; merges with US's Berry Street, Aug 2026
Bengaluru's Healthify, 45M+ users on AI coach Ria, merges with US clinical network Berry Street to build insurance-covered GLP-1-era metabolic care.
Healthify (formerly HealthifyMe)
What the business is
Bengaluru digital health company (formerly HealthifyMe) whose AI platform Ria provides nutrition, weight and wellness coaching via a consumer app, now merged with a US insurance-covered nutrition therapy network.
How it started
Founded in 2012 in Bengaluru by Tushar Vashisht, Mathew Cherian and Sachin Shenoy, Healthify began as a health and fitness app that helped people track diet, fitness and weight and connect with coaches. Its long-standing thesis, in Vashisht's words, was to put a dietitian in every human's pocket.
What happened
Healthify raised over $150 million from investors including Khosla Ventures, LeapFrog Investments, Blume Ventures and Chiratae Ventures, and claims to have served more than 45 million users across over 20 cultures. About two years before the merger it took a $20M round from Khosla Ventures and LeapFrog to enter the US and deepen AI. In 2025 it launched HealthifyRx, a companion program built around anti-obesity medication such as Ozempic and Mounjaro, including a patient support program with Novo Nordisk. On the other side, Berry Street had raised $50M from Northzone, Sofina and FJ Labs and built a network of over 2,000 clinicians serving more than 200,000 patients across all 50 US states.
How it ended up
On August 24, 2026 the companies announced a merger, with Healthify founder Tushar Vashisht and Berry Street founder Noah Kotlove as co-CEOs; the business operates under the Berry Street brand in the US and Healthify in India and other markets, with financial terms undisclosed. The combined company continues to run, aiming to pair AI guidance between consultations with clinician-managed, mostly insurance-covered GLP-1 and metabolic care.
Background
Healthify was founded in 2012 in Bengaluru by Tushar Vashisht, Mathew Cherian and Sachin Shenoy as a health and fitness app for tracking diet, fitness and weight with human coaches. Over more than a decade it raised over $150 million from Khosla Ventures, LeapFrog Investments, Blume Ventures and Chiratae Ventures, and built Ria, an AI nutrition and wellness coach supporting multimodal, multilingual food tracking.
The company's bet evolved with the market: after launching GLP-1-aided programs in India and a companion program called HealthifyRx built around medications such as Ozempic and Mounjaro in 2025, it moved to pair its AI scale with clinical delivery in the US, the market where obesity drugs were spreading fastest. A JP Morgan report cited by TechCrunch projected over 30 million people in the US would be on GLP-1 by 2030.
Berry Street brought the missing pieces: more than 2,000 clinicians, over 200,000 patients served across all 50 US states, participation in the CMS ACCESS model, partnerships with Amazon and Walmart, and insurance-covered care including GLP-1 management with prescriptions where appropriate. The startup had raised $50 million from Northzone, Sofina and FJ Labs.
On August 24, 2026 the two companies announced a merger with Vashisht and Berry Street founder Noah Kotlove as co-CEOs. The entity operates as Berry Street in the US and Healthify in India and other international markets, with the combined platform providing AI-powered guidance between consultations while clinicians manage patient care — an attempt to marry a 45-million-user consumer AI base with a regulated, insurance-covered clinical network.
What has to be true
- Healthify proved the consumer side of its thesis first: 45M+ users served and a decade of AI coaching data.
- GLP-1 drugs changed the economics of metabolic care, making clinician-managed, insurance-covered programs the growth market.
- Berry Street already had payer contracts, 2,000+ clinicians and 50-state reach, which an app could not build overnight.
- AI between clinician visits is where the merged company can differentiate: lower-cost, always-on coaching under medical supervision.
- Keeping both brands lets the company sell the same platform to US payers and Indian consumers without either market losing identity.
What can be applied
A consumer app's AI coach can reach tens of millions, but regulated care businesses still need clinical trust and payer access — the merger is how digital health buys the trust it cannot build in-app.
Aftermath
As of August 24, 2026, the merged company is led by co-CEOs Tushar Vashisht and Noah Kotlove, operating as Berry Street in the US and Healthify in India and other markets; financial terms were not disclosed. Healthify contributes AI coach Ria and its claimed 45M+ users, while Berry Street brings over 2,000 clinicians, more than 200,000 patients served across all 50 US states, CMS ACCESS participation and Amazon/Walmart partnerships. Care pairs AI guidance between consultations with clinician-managed, insurance-covered GLP-1 programs; Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla endorsed the platform.
Sources
- US nutrition startup Berry Street merges with India's Healthify as GLP-1 trends upwards
- Healthify Merges With US-Based Berry Street
- Healthify, Berry Street Merge to Build AI Metabolic Health Platform
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