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Bengaluru-based healthtech startup Healthify has merged with US nutrition care company Berry Street in an all-stock deal, marking one of the more notable Healthify-Berry Street merger moves in the AI healthtech space this year — and a real test of whether an India-born AI nutrition startup can go global on the back of a US partner’s infrastructure. The combination brings together Healthify’s AI nutrition technology with Berry Street’s insurance and clinical infrastructure, positioning the merged entity as a serious contender in the growing AI nutrition care platform category.
Neither company has disclosed the valuation, ownership split, or other financial terms of the deal.
A New Structure: One Platform, Two Brands
The merged business will operate under the Berry Street brand in the United States, while Healthify will keep its own name across India and other international markets. It’s a structure designed to preserve brand equity where each company already has traction, rather than forcing a single global identity too early.
Leadership will be shared. Healthify founder Tushar Vashisht and Berry Street founder Noah Kotlove will serve as co-CEOs, with Vashisht overseeing international operations and AI, and Kotlove leading the US business and growth. The deal also merges Healthify’s AI assistant, Ria, with Berry Street’s network of more than 2,000 clinicians operating across all 50 US states — a combination that gives the AI nutrition care platform both scale and clinical credibility from day one.
Why Insurance Was the Real Barrier
Healthify had been pushing to expand in the US for some time, but ran into a familiar wall: insurance reimbursement for dietitian-led services. Getting a registered dietitian’s time covered by insurance is a slow, credentialing-heavy process — exactly the kind of operational grind that AI alone can’t solve.
“We’ve been trying to scale the US mountain for about 18 months now, and we realised that the biggest hurdle was insurance, i.e., using insurance to reimburse a dietitian’s time. We realised that while Berry Street has an AI gap, we have an insurance gap, hence the merger,” Vashisht said.
The two companies had already tested the waters through pilots involving Healthify’s AI products before deciding to combine outright. Berry Street’s existing model — virtual nutrition care through registered dietitians, with insurance-backed dietitian care covering a range of plans, plus handling insurance credentialing and billing on clinicians’ behalf — filled exactly the gap Healthify couldn’t close alone.
“Healthify’s mission has been to put a dietitian in every human’s pocket. We have spent a decade proving that AI can drive life-changing outcomes at scale. Berry Street gives us the clinical backbone and the coverage infrastructure to deliver that promise to the US market at a scale no one has achieved before,” Vashisht said.
Riding the GLP-1 Wave
The timing lines up with surging demand for weight-management support tied to GLP-1 medicines. Berry Street already provides nutrition support for GLP-1 users in the US, while Healthify launched programmes in India for patients on anti-obesity medication back in 2025. As GLP-1 nutrition support becomes a bigger category on both sides of the world, the merger gives the combined company an early foothold in a fast-moving segment of metabolic care.
The deal also lands amid a broader wave of consolidation and funding across India’s nutrition and wellness space. Just recently, protein snack brand Phab raised $4 million in a pre-Series A round, while Honasa Consumer acquired Fluence Pharma to expand into nutraceuticals — signs that both funding and M&A activity in Indian nutrition and wellness are picking up pace.
The Numbers Behind the Deal
Founded in 2012, Healthify offers AI and human-led nutrition and fitness coaching through its app, claiming more than 45 million users served and around $150 million raised from investors including Khosla Ventures, Blume Ventures, and Chiratae Ventures.
Berry Street, meanwhile, raised $50 million in 2025 from Northzone, Sofina, and FJ Labs, backing its expansion of insurance-backed nutrition services in the US.
Khosla Ventures founder Vinod Khosla framed the merger in structural terms: “By pairing AI with a nationwide network of expert clinicians, Healthify and Berry Street are building the platform that will redefine metabolic care, giving everyone access to daily nutrition guidance and expert dietitian advice.”
What Comes Next
The combined group plans to treat the US as its primary growth market, while expanding Healthify’s footprint into the Middle East, Western Europe, and Australia. If the integration goes smoothly, the Healthify Berry Street merger could become a template for how AI-first health startups solve the insurance and regulatory hurdles that often stall US expansion.
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