Bengaluru-based healthtech startup Healthify has merged with US diet care agency Berry Road in an all-stock deal, combining its AI know-how with Berry Road’s insurance and medical infrastructure.
The businesses haven’t disclosed the valuation, possession break up or different monetary phrases of the transaction.
The mixed enterprise will function beneath the Berry Road model within the US, whereas Healthify will retain its identify in India and different worldwide markets.
Healthify founder Tushar Vashisht and Berry Road founder Noah Kotlove will function co-CEOs. Vashisht will oversee worldwide operations and AI, whereas Kotlove will lead the US enterprise and development.
The merger brings Healthify’s AI platform, together with its diet assistant Ria, along with Berry Road’s community of greater than 2,000 clinicians working throughout all 50 US states.
Berry Road offers digital diet care by means of registered dietitians, with providers coated by a variety of insurance policy. It additionally manages features together with insurance coverage credentialling, billing and different administrative work for clinicians.
Healthify had been making an attempt to broaden its enterprise within the US, however recognized insurance coverage reimbursement as a serious impediment to scaling its dietitian-led providers.
“We have been making an attempt to scale the US mountain for about 18 months now, and we realised that the largest hurdle was insurance coverage, i.e., utilizing insurance coverage to reimburse a dietitian’s time. We realised that whereas Berry Road has an AI hole, we’ve an insurance coverage hole, therefore the merger,” Vashisht stated.
The businesses had beforehand labored collectively on pilots involving Healthify’s AI merchandise earlier than deciding to mix their operations.
“Healthify’s mission has been to place a dietitian in each human’s pocket. Now we have spent a decade proving that AI can drive life-changing outcomes at scale. Berry Road offers us the medical spine and the protection infrastructure to ship that promise to the US market at a scale nobody has achieved earlier than,” Vashisht stated in a separate assertion.
The deal comes as demand for weight-management providers linked to GLP-1 medicines continues to develop. Berry Road offers diet help for individuals utilizing GLP-1 therapies, whereas Healthify launched programmes in India supporting sufferers taking anti-obesity medicines in 2025.
Based in 2012, Healthify offers AI-powered and human diet and health teaching by means of its app. The startup stated it has served greater than 45 million customers and has raised round $150 million in funding from traders together with Khosla Ventures, Blume Ventures and Chiratae Ventures.
Berry Road has additionally expanded its insurance-backed diet providers within the US. The corporate raised $50 million in 2025 from traders together with Northzone, Sofina and FJ Labs.
Khosla Ventures founder Vinod Khosla stated the merger would mix AI with a nationwide medical community.
“By pairing AI with a nationwide community of knowledgeable clinicians, Healthify and Berry Road are constructing the platform that may redefine metabolic care, giving everybody entry to every day diet steering and knowledgeable dietitian recommendation,” he stated.
The mixed group plans to make use of the US as its foremost development market whereas increasing Healthify into different areas, with the Center East, Western Europe and Australia among the many markets being thought of.