Namhya Foods

Ridhima Arora is Season 1's most personally transformed and most medically mission-driven female founder — an electronics engineer and MBA who lost 30 kilograms through a lifestyle transformation, watched her father battle liver cirrhosis and recovered him partly through Ayurvedic remedies combined with conventional medicine, traced those remedies back to her grandfather's 1937 herb store, quit a senior corporate marketing career at Lava International, and built India's first Ayurvedic preventive healthcare food brand from scratch with ₹25 lakh of her own savings — because she needed it, her family had needed it, and she believed millions of Indians needed it. The story of Namhya Foods begins with Ridhima Arora, a woman whose personal life became the seed for something much bigger. Watching her father fight liver cirrhosis was heartbreaking. Ridhima grew up around Ayurvedic remedies.

Namhya Foods is India's first Ayurvedic brand in preventive healthcare — creating tea blends, breakfast cereals, lattes, protein blends, and superfood powders using 70+ year old family formulations sourced from Ridhima's grandfather's 1937 herb knowledge base, with no preservatives, no artificial additives, directly sourced from Indian farmers, targeting prevalent chronic health challenges (PCOS, liver health, thyroid, immunity, diabetes prevention) through food-as-medicine rather than pharmaceutical intervention. The pitch is started by describing how many medicines we eat. If we are suffering from headaches or sore throats we go for pills. Out of every 12 persons in India, 1 is suffering from Diabetes or pre-diabetes. Out of 5 girls, 1 has PCOD or PCOS. There is a quote "Every disease starts at a gut" but the founder of Namhya believes that every disease can end at the Gut too.

Amount Asked: ₹1 crore Equity Offered: 5% Implied Pre-Money Valuation: ₹20 crore

Namhya Foods pitched first in Episode 23 — opening the episode with India's most personal Ayurveda health story and a product range that the Sharks could taste directly. The tea blends were served to the Sharks, who could experience the quality and taste personally rather than hearing about it abstractly. Ridhima Arora has asked for funding of ₹1 crore for 5% equity. The valuation of Namhya Foods is ₹20 crores. Ridhima who is the founder of this startup believes in spirituality. She practises Buddhism and there is the word Namhyo in it from where the word Namhya is derived. She received many positive reviews from consumers and she wants to make this brand as human consciousness. The pitch's most emotionally effective element was the combination of three personal transformation stories: Ridhima's own 30 kg weight loss through Ayurvedic lifestyle changes, her father's liver cirrhosis recovery through.

Vineeta Singh and Anupam Mittal formed the first offer coalition. Vineeta Singh and Anupam Mittal together gave an offer to Namhya Foods in which they said that this business does not require ₹1 crore as equity. Offer: ₹50 lakhs for 30% equity and ₹50 lakhs as debt. Aman Gupta made his own separate offer and outcompeted the Vineeta-Anupam coalition. He offered ₹50 lakhs for 15% equity and ₹50 lakhs as debt. Ridhima stated she already had an offer with a valuation of ₹12 crores so she asked Aman to reduce equity to 7%. Aman made a last offer of ₹50 lakhs for 10% equity and ₹50 lakhs as debt.

Vineeta and Anupam offered ₹50 lakhs for 30% equity plus ₹50 lakhs debt. Aman offered ₹50 lakhs for 15% equity plus ₹50 lakhs debt. Ridhima had an existing offer at a ₹12 crore valuation and asked Aman to reduce equity to 7%. Aman came back at 10% equity with ₹50 lakhs plus ₹50 lakhs debt. Ridhima asked to reduce to 8% and then 8.5%. Aman did not reduce and the deal closed at ₹50 lakhs for 10% equity and ₹50 lakhs debt.

Deal Secured: YES — CONFIRMED AND FORMALLY CLOSED Investment Amount:- ₹50 lakhs equity + ₹50 lakhs debt Equity Given:- 10%