Berry Street, a U.S. nutrition care company, has merged with India-based Healthify to create what the companies describe as the largest insurance-covered AI metabolic health platform in the country. The deal pairs Healthify's AI nutrition assistant Ria with Berry Street's network of more than 2,000 clinicians who provide insurance-covered nutrition and GLP-1 care. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Healthify has served more than 45 million users across 20-plus countries over the past decade. The company started by matching patients with dietitians and later built AI tools to support those interactions. Berry Street launched in 2023 and has since served more than 200,000 patients through partnerships with Amazon, Walmart, and various health plans.
Two companies, one platform
The combined company will be led by Berry Street CEO Noah Kotlove and Healthify CEO Tushar Vashisht as co-CEOs. In the U.S., the company will operate under the Berry Street brand. Healthify's brand will remain in India and other international markets.
"They were very early in developing AI to enhance the care that they were delivering," Kotlove said. "When I met them late last year, they were looking for a partner to launch in the U.S. They had really perfected this combination of AI plus human clinician-in-the-loop for clinically proven outcomes."
Berry Street's model centers on a simple premise: most Americans already have insurance coverage for one-on-one sessions with registered dietitians. The company built a nationwide network of clinicians across all 50 states where patients can meet with a dietitian, often at no out-of-pocket cost. In February 2025, Berry Street raised $50 million from Northzone, Sofina, and FJ Labs.
The company expanded into weight management last year with its GLP-1 Nutrition Pathway Program, which gives patients access to FDA-approved weight loss medications through their insurance. One in eight Americans now takes a GLP-1 drug, according to KFF data.
"The science is clear: these medications are most effective when paired with high-touch clinical oversight and expert nutrition guidance," Kotlove said. "But for most Americans, that experience has been out of reach."
AI plus clinical oversight
Healthify's AI assistant Ria uses patented food-logging technology that can track nutrition from a photograph in under one second. A peer-reviewed study with Stanford Medical School showed measurable improvements in weight and metabolic markers among Ria users - the first paper to examine AI-only metabolic health outcomes.
Berry Street patients meet synchronously with registered dietitians, doctors, and nurse practitioners for GLP-1 management and nutrition therapy. Between visits, they use the Berry Street app for AI-powered guidance, meal tracking, and integration of health data from wearables and lab results. The company supports more than 30 conditions, from weight loss and diabetes to women's health and heart health.
Healthify's platform was built on hundreds of millions of real dietitian-to-patient interactions. It also developed a GLP-1 weight management program, including a patient support initiative with Novo Nordisk, which is now its fastest-growing offering.
Berry Street is part of the first cohort in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' ACCESS model, a 10-year program for value-based chronic condition management that relies on technology and AI to reach large patient populations. The model launched last month with intentionally low reimbursement rates, making it difficult to depend on human clinical labor alone.
"We're excited about the opportunity to pair the human clinical expertise that we've scaled to this point with AI to impact many more lives at a much lower cost," Kotlove said.
This merger touches on three trends shaping healthcare: the rise of AI tools, the GLP-1 drug boom, and patients taking a more active role in their own care. One in three Americans now turns to AI for health guidance, double the share from a year ago, according to Rock Health survey data. Most of that guidance comes from general-purpose AI tools that lack clinical credibility - the gap Berry Street and Healthify aim to fill.
"Healthify's mission has been to put a dietitian in every human's pocket," Vashisht said. "We have spent a decade proving that AI can drive life-changing outcomes at scale. Berry Street gives us the clinical backbone and the coverage infrastructure to deliver that promise to the U.S. market at a scale no one has achieved before."
For professionals in healthcare administration and clinical operations, this merger signals where metabolic care is heading: AI handling the high-volume, repetitive parts of nutrition coaching while clinicians focus on complex cases. The CMS ACCESS model's low reimbursement rates make this kind of hybrid approach nearly mandatory for organizations serving Medicare populations. For AI for Healthcare professionals, the deal also highlights how AI tools are moving from standalone consumer products into insurance-covered clinical workflows. Those working in billing and reimbursement should watch how the ACCESS model's payment structure shapes demand for AI for Medical Billers skills, since the model depends on technology to keep per-patient costs manageable.
Why this matters for healthcare professionals
The merger gives healthcare organizations a working example of AI and human clinicians operating as one care team, not competing approaches. For dietitians, nurses, and physicians, expect AI tools to handle patient monitoring, meal logging, and data synthesis between visits. For administrators, the CMS ACCESS model's economics mean AI isn't optional - it's the only way to deliver chronic care management at scale under the new reimbursement rates. The companies plan to integrate Healthify's AI coaching into Berry Street's patient experience in the U.S. while continuing Healthify's growth in India, where obesity and chronic disease rates are rising quickly.
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