In 2018, he gave a presentation during the India-Russia Business Summit, in front of Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He advocated for better protein subsidy for the masses in 2011-12 in front of the Planning Commission and National Advisory Council, as well as on other forums. While at HealthifyMe and during their poverty line experiment, Vashisht advocated for better nutrition policies for Indians. In 2019, HealthifyMe was reported to be the top rated Indian startup on Google Play Store. The company went on to raise four rounds of funding including a series B funding of US$ 18 million in 2018. In 2019, it launched AI-powered 'Smart Plans' recommended by its digital nutritionist 'Ria', based on customer habits and medical conditions. The company would later add digital nutritionists and trainers as subscription service. According to him, it is India's 'first comprehensive calorie tracker'. Inspired by his own weight gain within a year of returning to India, Vashisht started HealthifyMe in 2012, with Mathew Cherian and Sachin Shenoy as co-founders with 'a vision to help Indians be healthier and fitter using online tools'. In 2009, he joined the Aadhaar project headed by Nandan Nilekani in Bangalore, where many of the future board members and early investors of HealthifyMe were his colleagues. He joined Deutsche Bank full-time as corporate finance analyst in San Francisco before shifting to Singapore. Vashisht began his career from Wall Street as an intern for BlackRock. He spent his first two college years between Delhi College of Engineering and Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, before transferring to and graduating with a BAS in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007. Vashisht did his K-12 in different schools in Haryana before graduating from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya in New Delhi in 2003. Suneeta Madan, daughter of veterinary scientist ML Madan.

Vashisht was born in Karnal, Haryana, to SN Vashisht, former Director General of Police of Haryana, and Dr.

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