VivaLyf Innovations will release India's first ideal non-invasive glucometer, EzLyf. This tiny glucometer connects to one's smartphone and provides actionable diagnostic information.

Traditional blood sugar monitoring methods are both expensive and inconvenient. Currently there is no pleasant way to regulate blood sugar levels at a lower cost and this non-invasive glucometer will empower people with diabetes to be more self-sufficient in measuring their best lives. In this regard, EzLyf stands out as a more configurable, inexpensive, and painless plug-and-play glucose monitoring system.

VivaLyf  Innovations is a start-up founded by Duvvuru Varshitha and Vimal Kumaran and incubated at the University of Hyderabad

All of this attracted the attention of SHARK TANK INDIA-2021, who invited them to present their business story, which had enthralled the sharks resulting VivaLyf Innovations in winning a deal from Peyush Bansal, Founder of LensKart, who named EzLyf as his favourite product, and Anupam Pittal, Founder and CEO of People's Group.

When asked what led the founders to start this project Varshitha recalled her experiences and said, "Can you imagine getting pricked every day since you were born, wasting 5-6 drops of blood and having to take injections four times a day? It is not only my story, but the story of 537 million people worldwide who suffer from diabetes."

Her personal distress as a type 1 diabetic drove her to leave IIT to seek a career in biotechnology, swearing on to find a painless solution. That's when she met Vimal, an electronics engineer who shares his ambition to improve people's lives. As he says, "I've always wanted to work on advanced health-tech, to provide better treatment to our country's most vulnerable population. This can be addressed in a variety of ways, including technology to check for early diagnosis, sending notifications to our phones, and optimal healthcare analytics." His passion and technical abilities as well as her personal experiences were the magic sauce that allowed VivaLyf Innovations to happen.

The founders proclaim, "We're busy disrupting the healthcare industry, designing high-quality products that are portable and tailored to Indian needs, especially in remote areas." They were the second runner-up in the EMPOWER-2021, Accelerating Women Entrepreneurship competition and won the TiE Women Global Pitch-2021 in Hyderabad. They also represented Hyderabad as one of 42 finalists at the TiE Global Pitch Competition in Dubai. They also won the NITTE healthcare innovation hackathon and were named in AIM-NITI Aayog's top nine prospective healthcare startups for 2021.