Entrepreneur and investor (LinkedIn, X)
Building
- Lumi Heart. Heart attacks are the #1 killer for men, women, in the US, and globally. These deaths are avoidable with early intervention. Lumi is on a mission to eliminate all preventable heart attacks and we are starting by making coronary calcium scoring radically convenient.
- Bamboo Health. Seminal health moments change the trajectory of our lives— a drug overdose, a major surgery, a psychiatric break. Bamboo finds people in their most vulnerable moments and gets them the care they need.
Investing
I invest at all stages, but mostly very early.
Uno Health (acq. FindHelp)
Wellen (acq. Bone Health)
Rupa Health (acq. Fullscript)
Arise (acq. Monte Nido)
Stellation Health (acq. Skylight Health)
Hera Health
Omni
Gravity
Colossus
Vitalize
Helping
I love helping founders with the core aspects of building like finding product-market fit, go-to-market strategy, and fundraising. But I find that founders especially value our relationship during the most vulnerable moments of the journey— co-founder conflicts; awkward board conversations around founder secondary, burn-out, or M&A; or balancing personal life stress with work.
One of the ways I like to help founders is by helping them build stronger, more authentic relationships with their teams. Here is one tool I built to achieve this
About Me
I was born in Wheaton, Illinois which boasts the 2nd most churches per capita per Trivial Pursuit. My parents are from India. I have lived in Chicago, Ann Arbor, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Orlando, NYC, Philadelphia, Providence, DC, Boston, and now I live in Los Angeles. I loved all those places for different reasons and love being in LA. I also love being a husband and father.
I was CEO and Founder of PatientPing, a company I started in 2013 that connects providers to coordinate patient care. It was my first time in a tech company, a start-up, as a manager, as a CEO, and as a founder. The one area where I was deep was the customer, which in hindsight, is what mattered most then and mattered most throughout. I learned the rest by asking a lot of questions, surrounding myself with exceptionally competent people, and a lot of hard work. We went from a powerpoint on my kitchen table to a scaled company with services in over half the country that raised >$100 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, First Round Capital, SV Angel, F-Prime, Transformation Partners, and ok/good/great/outstanding angel investors (so I know what it feels like to a CEO when angel investor is outstanding vs just ok). I sold my company to Bamboo Health in 2021. About a year later, I became CEO of Bamboo and am now executive chair.
I’ve also worked at:
- Medicare, where I focused on value-based care
- Parthenon Capital, where I was investing in healthcare services companies
- Lehman Brothers, where I learned how to use PowerPoint and Excel
- Other companies including a Medicaid HMO, CVS Health, Mayor Bloomberg’s Office of Health and Human Services, a nuclear pharmacy chain called Triad Isotopes, MTV, on a political campaign, for a labor union, and more.
I love helping founders grow their companies
Causes
- South Asians That Hobby. The culture of South Asians in America is predominantly oriented around achievement. We are attempting to add layers to this by building community around hobby and play