Founded 2012 | Industry Technology Area served Worldwide | |
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Key people Tushar Vashisht (CEO), Sachin Shenoy Founders Sachin Shenoy, Mathew Cherian, Tushar Vashisht Profiles | ||
Get fit eat better and lose weight with healthifyme nidhi katiyar
HealthifyMe is an Indian digital Weight loss platform that provides fitness services. Developed for both Android and iOS platforms, the application provides calorie tracking, water tracking and on-the-cloud fitness coaching. In addition to these, the app takes the gamified approach to keep users motivated.
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- Get fit eat better and lose weight with healthifyme nidhi katiyar
- Weight loss simplified with healthifyme
- HealthifyMeter 2017 Report
- History
- Partnerships
- References
Users with premium subscription get to choose from a team of in-house nutritionists, fitness trainers and Yoga coaches, who are certified by international organizations and certifications such as International Sports Science Association (ISSA), American Council on Exercise (ACE) and others. Through this, HealthifyMe combines human assistance with wearable technology as the app syncs with activity trackers.
The company, founded by Tushar Vashisht, Mathew Cherian and Sachin Shenoy, is based out of Bangalore, India. HealthifyMe raised $6 million as a part of their Series-A round in April 2016 from IDG Ventures, Inventus Capital Partners & Blume Ventures.
Weight loss simplified with healthifyme
HealthifyMeter 2017 Report
Early 2017, HealthifyMe released a report on insights based on food logs recorded by over a million users on the app. The objective of the report was to be an independent provider of diet consumption, fitness, and health insights about the country. HeathifyMeter is based on insights derived from 60 million+ food recordsand 40 million+ exercises, steps, hydration logs tracked on the HealthifyMe app.
On the occasion of International Women's Day 2017, HealthifyMe also released a Gender Watch report that highlighted the disparity in protein consumption among men and women across various states in India.
History
Started in 2012, CEO & Founder, Tushar Vashisht says that it was his personal weight loss after working for Unique Identification Authority of India (UID) in 2010 that spurred him to start HealthifyMe. He along with Mathew began putting together a list of foods and their calorie values as they attempted to build a service that would help people eat and live healthier. A year into establishing HealthifyMe, Sachin joined the team as Co-Founder and Head of Engineering.
On 1 May 2015, HealthifyMe along Godrej Nature’s Basket, Manipal Hospitals, Medanta, Apollo Centre with launched the HealthifyIndia movement, aimed to pledge Indians to a healthy lifestyle while bringing attention to lifestyle disorders.
On 17 June 2015, it was announced that HealthifyMe closed its pre-Series A round with an undisclosed amount from a group of individual investors. This was clubbed along with the investment funds from handset maker Micromax earlier.
On December 2015, the app was awarded the Google Play Top Developer Badge. In addition to this, HealthifyMe was chosen as one of Google Play’s “Best Apps of 2015” and a 'Made in India' feature on the App Store.
Partnerships
HealthifyMe also works in partnership with various medical institutions such as Medanta, Apollo Hospitals and Manipal Hospitals, with the aim to treat and prevent clinical obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular problems and other lifestyle diseases.
The company has also made its presence in the corporate wellness space, serving clients like Philips, Cognizant, Unilever, PMC and General Electric.