Berry Street and Healthify merge, founders to serve as co-CEOs amid GLP-1 boom

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US-based nutrition startup Berry Street has merged with Indian health platform Healthify in a cross-border deal. The merger comes as interest in GLP-1 treatments continues to rise globally. Berry Street founder Noah Kotlove and Healthify founder Tushar Vashisht will jointly lead the combined company as co-CEOs. The deal brings together two players in the digital health and nutrition space to form a single unified entity.

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