EP#51 Rohan Verma – Building Breathe Well-Being, re-inventing chronic care with a community-first approach and nailing the timing of your fundraise
Description
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 –
- (01:45 ) Rohan’s background & path leading up to Breathe Well-Being
- (03:50 ) The switch from B2B to B2C
- (11:50 ) Problem statement & Breathe Well-Being’s unique product positioning
- (20:55 ) ‘No outcome, No pay’ policy for clients
- (26:13 ) Key learnings from Rohan’s entrepreneurship journey
- (28:38 ) Achieving balance & focusing on mental wellness as a founder
- (31:35 ) How to assess whether a company is ready to raise venture capital?
- (37:25 ) Managing back-to-back funding rounds; Importance of nailing the quantum & timing of your fundraise
- (39:15 ) Rapid fire and closing remarks
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