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Cure.fit: The High Temple of Fitness

Mukesh Bansal is betting he can fit four different businesses together and assemble a healthcare empire on a scale no one's attempted anywhere in the world. His investors seem to buy it. Should we?

10/09/18

Gayathri Vaidyanathan

On the strength of their reputations, investors gave $15 million in 2016 to Bansal and Ankit Nagori to start Cure.fit

In phase 1, they built the gym, meditation, food and healthcare businesses. Investors poured in $120 million in July

In phase 2, they need to establish critical synergies between the four companies through a “super-app”

In phase 3, they hope for outright global domination of the booming preventative healthcare market

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Mukesh Bansal likes going on walks. Usually, it’s around a couple of beautiful South Bangalore lakes, Haralur and Agara Lakes, rejuvenated and maintained by local citizens. Other times, it’s in a new park behind his four-storey Cure.fit HQ in the hip HSR neighbourhood. Late one day last week, Bansal had clocked 8,221 steps by 3…

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