Founded by Anurag Rathor, Pawbud Health is using AI to build technology with a promise to ensure pets do not suffer in silence. He walked away from one of India’s most prestigious banking careers after losing his dog, Mac, and turned that grief into a mission: making sure no pet parent ever has to feel as helpless as he once did. He brings eighteen years of building and scaling global products to the table. He founded Zify Mobility in 2014 (a venture-backed startup that grew to 5 million+ riders across Europe and India), and went on to hold VP and Senior VP roles at the fintech unicorn BharatPe, and the third-largest bank in India, respectively.
With Pawbud Health, he’s setting his sights on a pet healthcare industry that remains largely reactive and fragmented. His solution is an AI health intelligence layer that connects pet parents, veterinarians, and insurers around a single source of truth for pet health data. And it’s built on top of a $50 billion insurance gap that the industry has long ignored. Pawbud is part of the MongoDB for Startups program, the NVIDIA Inception Program, and Founders Inc.
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