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Product Details
Entrepreneur Background
Ramanath Padmanabhan, Sandeep Acharya, and Abhilesh Gupta are Season 1's most professionally experienced digital wellness founding team — three Bengaluru neighbours who share interests in running, cricket, and golf, who collectively bring aeronautical engineering and global management (Abhilesh), healthcare strategy and technology entrepreneurship at IIT Mumbai calibre (Ramanath), and data analytics and business intelligence expertise (Sandeep "Data Eagle") to the problem of making personalised Ayurvedic wellness accessible through a smartphone. Abhilesh Gupta is an aeronautical engineer with over 2 decades of experience in different industries, and has worked globally in a management capacity for large companies in the sector. Ramanath is a seasoned strategy, business and technology executive. He is a successful global entrepreneur, an outstanding leader, and a versatile business and technology strategist in start-ups and MNCs.
The Product / Service
AyuRythm is a digital Ayurvedic personalised wellness application — using a 30-question onboarding assessment to determine the user's Prakriti (ideal body type per Ayurveda's three doshas: Vata, Pitta, Kapha) and current Vikriti (actual body state), then providing daily personalised recommendations for yoga, pranayama, food choices, herbs, and lifestyle practices aligned to the user's specific dosha imbalances — augmented by a daily 30-second camera-based pulse diagnosis feature that measures the user's wellness index through blood flow analysis — and complemented by 1,800+ home remedies, doctor consultation access, and subscription-based wellness coaching.