EP#51 Rohan Verma – Building Breathe Well-Being, re-inventing chronic care with a community-first approach and nailing the timing of your fundraise

The VCpreneur: Startups | Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Fundraising

In this episode, Rohan Verma (Co-Founder & CEO, Breathe Well-being), joins our host Digjay, to talk about his path leading up to entrepreneurship, making the switch from B2B to B2C, the key problem statement that Breathe Well-Being is trying to solve & it’s unique product positioning, key learnings from his entrepreneurship journey, achieving balance & focusing on mental wellness as a founder and the importance of nailing the quantum & timing of your fundraise.

Breathe Well-Being is a digital therapeutics company that helps people prevent, manage and reverse chronic conditions using a community-first approach. The startup has built a clinically proven Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Programme which has seen rapid adoption over the past couple of years & very high retention rates across all it’s cohorts. Breathe Well-Being is backed by marquee VCs like Accel, 3one4 Capital, General Catalyst as well as angel investors like Sandeep Singhal, Ashish Gupta, Stanford Angels among others. Prior to Breathe Well-being, Rohan ran an edtech startup before spending 3 years at McKinsey & Nomura. An alum of NTU Singapore, Rohan is a Crossfit Level 2 trainer & mindfulness coach. You can connect with him here on Linkedin.

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Show notes –

1. (01:45) Rohan’s background & path leading up to Breathe Well-Being
2. (03:50) The switch from B2B to B2C
3. (11:50) Problem statement & Breathe Well-Being’s unique product positioning
4. (20:55) ‘No outcome, No pay’ policy for clients
5. (26:13) Key learnings from Rohan’s entrepreneurship journey
6. (28:38) Achieving balance & focusing on mental wellness as a founder
7. (31:35) How to assess whether a company is ready to raise venture capital?
8. (37:25) Managing back-to-back funding rounds; Importance of nailing the quantum & timing of your fundraise
9. (39:15) Rapid fire and closing remarks

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