Episode 1 - The Hardware Story of Inito w/ Aayush Rai | Building a B2C medical hardware company

The Hardware Story · 26 Jun 2024 · 1h 22m

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Aayush Rai, Co-Founder and CEO of Inito, discusses building a B2C medical hardware company from Bangalore, India, targeting the US market with a home fertility monitoring device. He details the journey from prototyping with Arduino to navigating FDA regulations, securing $15M in funding through a unique angel-first strategy, and the critical pivot to focus exclusively on the iOS ecosystem to achieve product-market fit.

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Companies: Inito, Siemens, YC, Fireside Ventures, IKP
Tools: Arduino, Raspberry Pi
Also: FDA, CDSCO

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Episode 1 - The Hardware Story of Inito w/ Aayush Rai | Building a B2C medical hardware company

What this episode covers

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