Shark Tank India 4: “Ritesh called me for an informal meeting,” says 19-year-old health app founder on OYO boss

Himanshu Rajpurohit, 19-year-old founder of health app Nexera.Health, recently opened up about his life after Shark Tank India season 4. He said that “shark” and the founder of OYO Rooms, Ritesh Agarwal, contacted him for an informal meeting and he passed enough. some time with him.

“To put the cherry on the cake, Ritesh called me for an informal meeting and spent a good amount of time with me. So what’s better than meeting the mentor and learning from him,” the Nexera.Health founder said told the Times of India. in an interview.

He said he would like to do a deal with the OYO founder as he brings wisdom and calmness to the table and work in that direction.

Rajpurohit also said that Nexera’s website saw a 10x increase in its traffic after his episode. “We got 10x responses on our site after the episode, we saw a sharp jump from Shark Tank India and we are positive that we would double the revenue target.”

He also talked about his experience on the show and said that everything, including the companies and names mentioned during the pitch, was presented after due diligence. The young founder also talked about his website.

“Speaking of doing the website, we had scaled in the last three months and that’s how we updated our website, and yes, they didn’t find it right, but I would still try to understand what was wrong.”

In addition, he said that investors, or as they call “sharks”, are mentors for him. When he was removed from meetings as a child, he learned from Ritesh and presented his work, as Rajpurohit.

He also reacted to CMO Aman Gupta’s remarks after his pitch. Gupta had accused Rajpurohit of having a “success hangover which is reflected in your third business”. The young entrepreneur said the situation could have been better if Gupta had spent more time understanding it.

Himanshu Rajpurohit was unable to secure any deals on the show as his overconfidence irritated the investors. While Kunal Bahl wasn’t sure about the app’s appeal to CFOs, Namita Thapar also refused to make any offers due to the lack of differentiation in the app.