Tata Digital to invest in CureFit Healthcare

Chandigarh:  Tata Digital Limited, a 100% subsidiary of Tata Sons Private Ltd. has entered an Memorandum of Understanding for investing of up to US$75mn in CureFit Healthcare Private Limited (“CureFit”), subject to completion of diligence process and other approvals. 

CureFit Founder & CEO Mukesh Bansal will join Tata Digital in an executive role as President, Tata Digital Limited. In addition, Mukesh will continue in his leadership role at CureFit.

CureFit is India’s leading fitness player that has developed a strong ecosystem around fitness and wellness. Indian fitness and wellness market is growing at ~20% p.a and is expected to reach ~$12 bn by 2025. CureFit is uniquely positioned to capture a large share leveraging its comprehensive solution and differentiated tech platform. Curefit, with its range of fitness & wellness offerings, will help Tata Digital expand into pro-active health management space.

N. Chandrasekaran, Chairman Tata Sons said: “The CureFit partnership with its industry leading platform in fitness and wellness aligns very well with our overall healthcare proposition where fitness is increasingly becoming an integral part of a consumers’ life. We are delighted to have Mukesh Bansal as a part of the key leadership team of Tata Digital. With his deep consumer experience and an entrepreneurial mindset of having incubated and grown two very successful businesses, his expertise will bring immense value to us”.

Mukesh Bansal, Co-founder & CEO of CureFit, said: “Joining Tata Digital marks an exciting new step for me and my team and is a recognition of the value we have created with CureFit for fitness enthusiasts in India. Being part of Tata Digital will enable us to nationally scale up our offerings for our customers. Tata Digital has highly inspiring vision to create next generation consumer platform and I am very excited to be part of Tata Digital team that is shaping this vision”

Sudhir Sethi, Chairman Chirate Ventures from CureFit board said: “Tata digital partnership will significantly accelerate cure.fit’s growth as a fitness & wellness leader and it will open up access to large set of new consumer base. It is a strong validation of the category leadership that cure.fit has and help cure.fit grow rapidly as digital health takes off in a big way in next decade”.