Berry Street and Healthify Merger Creates Global Nutrition Giant Amid GLP-1 Boom
TL;DR
- US-based Berry Street and India-based Healthify have merged to create a global nutrition platform, with co-CEOs Noah Kotlove and Tushar Vashisht leading the combined company.
- The deal is timed to capitalize on the explosive demand for GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, positioning the new entity to provide essential nutrition coaching and side-effect management for millions of users.
- The merger combines Berry Street's 3,000+ strong U.S. dietitian network and insurance-based model with Healthify's AI-powered coaching platform and 40-million-user base to drive expansion across the U.S., India, and new global markets.
A Merger Built for the Ozempic Era
In a move that signals just how central nutrition has become to modern healthcare, American startup Berry Street and Indian health-tech unicorn Healthify have announced a strategic merger. The deal, unveiled this week, creates one of the world's largest nutrition and weight-management platforms by reach, combining a human-powered clinical network with an AI-first consumer app.
The timing is no accident. As GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound reshape the weight-loss industry, both companies are betting that medication alone isn't enough — and that the real long-term winners will be the platforms that help patients eat, live, and sustain results while on the drugs.
Why Now: Riding the GLP-1 Wave
The global market for GLP-1 receptor agonists has surged past $50 billion and continues to grow at a breakneck pace, with tens of millions of Americans now prescribed the drugs. But the boom has exposed a critical gap in care. Patients on GLP-1s often struggle with nausea, muscle loss, nutritional deficiencies, and weight regain after stopping treatment.
Healthcare providers and payers are increasingly mandating nutrition counseling as a companion to prescriptions, creating massive demand for scalable, insurance-covered dietitian services. Berry Street, founded in 2023 in New York, has built its business directly on this need — offering patients access to registered dietitians covered by insurance. Healthify, founded in 2012 as HealthifyMe, has spent over a decade in India tackling metabolic health with its AI nutritionist Ria and its food-tracking database tailored to Indian diets.
Together, the merged company aims to own the entire GLP-1 care journey, from prescription support to long-term behavior change.
Two Platforms, One Complementary Puzzle
On paper, the two companies look like mirror images. Berry Street brings a deep clinical network and a proven go-to-market model for the U.S. healthcare system. It has scaled to more than 3,000 registered dietitians and contracts with major national payers, making its services free for most patients with insurance. Its strength is human expertise delivered via telehealth.
Healthify brings scale, data, and AI. With more than 40 million registered users, over 600 million food logs, and its conversational AI coach Ria, the Bengaluru-based company has one of the world's largest proprietary nutrition datasets. Its app, which rebranded from HealthifyMe to Healthify earlier this year, is known for its highly localized approach — recognizing everything from biryani to millet-based meals and offering coaching in multiple Indian languages.
The plan is to fuse the two. Healthify's AI will be integrated into Berry Street's dietitian workflow to automate meal planning, logging, and 24/7 check-ins, allowing dietitians to manage more patients effectively. Conversely, Berry Street's clinical protocols and U.S. payer expertise will be layered onto Healthify's platform to deepen its clinical credibility.
The Co-CEO Model: Kotlove and Vashisht at the Helm
Rather than appointing a single leader, the merged entity will be led by co-CEOs Noah Kotlove, co-founder and CEO of Berry Street, and Tushar Vashisht, co-founder and CEO of Healthify.
Kotlove will oversee U.S. operations, payer expansion, and the dietitian network, while Vashisht will lead product, AI innovation, and the India and Southeast Asia business. Both founders emphasized that the structure is intentional, designed to preserve the local expertise needed to win in two vastly different healthcare markets.
Investors on both sides, including General Catalyst, Chiratae Ventures, and HealthQuad, are backing the combined vision, seeing a path to a truly global, cross-market platform that few digital health companies have achieved.
Building a Truly Global Nutrition Platform
The new company will maintain dual headquarters in New York and Bengaluru and continue to operate both brands in their home markets in the near term. The larger ambition, however, is global.
For Berry Street, the merger provides an instant AI engine and a decade of behavioral data that would take years to build from scratch. For Healthify, it unlocks a profitable, insurance-reimbursed pathway into the lucrative U.S. market — a challenge that has defeated many international health apps.
The combined roadmap includes three immediate priorities: launching a dedicated GLP-1 companion program that pairs medication users with both an AI coach and a human dietitian, expanding Healthify's AI food recognition to Western diets, and bringing Berry Street's virtual dietitian model to India and other emerging markets where access to credentialed nutritionists remains limited.
What Happens Next
The merger underscores a broader shift in digital health: standalone weight-loss apps and standalone telehealth marketplaces are converging into integrated care platforms.
With payers, employers, and pharmaceutical companies all looking for proven nutrition partners to improve GLP-1 outcomes and reduce costs, the newly formed Berry Street-Healthify entity is positioning itself as the infrastructure layer for the next decade of weight management.
If the integration succeeds, it won't just be a U.S.-India success story — it will be a blueprint for how AI and human care can scale together to serve a global, medication-driven health revolution.
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