E76: Mohit Kumar (Co-founder & CEO, Ultrahuman)

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Mohit Kumar is the Co-founder and CEO of Ultrahuman, a metabolic health tracking platform that provides intelligent nudges based on glucose biomarkers and aims to improve users’ exercise, sleep and nutrition based on deep insights from the platform. Ultrahuman was founded by Mohit Kumar and Vatsal Singhal who were also co-founders at Runnr which later merged with India’s largest food delivery service Zomato.

Ultrahuman has raised over $25m to date from Alpha Wave, Steadview Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Blume Ventures and iSeed fund, and a range of other angel investors including Tiger Global’s Scott Schleifer.

In this episode, we will cover:

1. Impact of the last two years on Ultrahuman (2:50)

2. How did the founding team come up with the idea for Ultrahuman (7:33)

3. How did the Ultrahuman team perceive the TAM? (17:25)

4. How does Ultrahuman raise public awareness about food, diet, nutrition, and lifestyle? (23:30)

5. Breaking down data for customers who are not data savvy (30:15)

6. The Science of Metabolic Score (35:20)

7. What has Ultrahuman team learned from the pandemic user data? (39:10)

8. How can men and women understand their bodies better through Ultrahuman (44:46)

9. What is Ultrahuman’s vision for the future (52:38)

10. How does Ultrahuman intend to democratize data access? (1:09:25)

11. How do investors perceive Ultrahuman? (1:11:05)