In the last few years, India’s startup ecosystem has witnessed the rise of many impactful brands — but Ultrahuman stands out as one of the boldest and most innovative. What started as a simple mission to improve human performance has now grown into a global health-tech powerhouse , challenging giants in metabolic health, wearables, and wellness intelligence.
Ultrahuman’s journey is a rare mix of vision, engineering, rejection, grit, and sheer stubborn belief in the idea that India can build world-class hardware and software products.
This is the complete success story.
Ultrahuman was founded in 2019 by Mohit Kumar and Vatsal Singhal , two entrepreneurs who had earlier co-founded Runnr , a hyperlocal delivery startup that eventually merged with Zomato.
After exiting Runnr, both founders felt a personal connection to fitness, metabolic health, and human performance .
But they observed one key insight:
Despite millions of people wanting to get healthier, the tools available were:
Generic fitness bands
Surface-level calorie counters
Fitness content libraries
No personalised metabolic insights
No real-time body intelligence
Most importantly, wearable brands were global, expensive, and built outside India .
This pushed Mohit and Vatsal to ask:
“Why can’t India build a world-class health-tech company?”
Building Ultrahuman wasn’t easy. Investors repeatedly told them:
❌ “Hardware is too hard.”
❌ “Indians won’t buy premium wearables.”
❌ “Metabolic health is a niche space.”
❌ “Competing with US companies is impossible.”
Many investors walked away.
Many doubted India’s ability to build human-grade sensors.
Manufacturing partners refused.
Engineers were sceptical.
But the founders continued — because the vision was clear:
Build the world’s most advanced metabolic health platform.
Ultrahuman initially started with fitness content and performance coaching .
But the founders quickly realised:
The future was metabolic intelligence.
They pivoted to:
Ultrahuman launched M1 , a metabolic tracker using a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM).
It allowed users to:
Track how food affects blood sugar
Understand metabolic health
Improve sleep & stress
Personalise diet
Measure performance
This changed the company overnight.
Demand exploded among athletes, founders, and fitness communities.
Their smart ring delivered:
Sleep monitoring
HRV
Recovery score
Movement insights
Metabolic correlation with M1
For the first time, India had its own global wearable device.
And not just built in India — but engineered to global standards .
Ultrahuman grew from:
? ₹105 crore (FY24)
to
? ₹565 crore (FY25)
A 5.4X jump — extremely rare for a hardware company.
They also became profitable with ~₹73 crore net profit.
In FY26, they are expected to touch ₹1,100 crore in revenue .
Ultrahuman faced competition from:
Oura
Whoop
Levels Health
Apple (indirectly)
Fitbit
Yet they stayed strong because:
They owned their hardware.
Built their own algorithms.
Manufactured in-house.
Controlled supply chain.
Launched globally (US, EU, Canada).
The world began recognising an Indian company beating global players in deep-tech wearables.
Ultrahuman teaches new-age Indian entrepreneurs:
Hardware is possible in India.
Stay niche before going mass.
Own the tech stack end-to-end.
Global problems need global solutions.
Rejections are normal — conviction is rare.
From building sensors in Bengaluru to shipping worldwide, Ultrahuman has proved:
India can build premium, high-tech health products — not just software.
Their journey is still unfolding, but one thing is clear:
This is not just a startup. It’s a revolution.
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