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Rishi Nayyar on the TechTO stage

Rishi Nayyar

Co-founder & CEO, PocketHealth

Health TechTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2023

Rishi Nayyar is the co-founder and CEO of PocketHealth, the Toronto platform that gives patients direct access to their medical imaging and reports. He founded it in 2016 with his older brother Harsh, the CTO, after Harsh was handed a CD-ROM of an MRI. Before PocketHealth he worked in investment banking at Citigroup.

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2023. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Rishi

In their words

My advice to everyone is just have a really smart brother, if you can manage that somehow. I can't take credit for the genesis of PocketHealth.

TechTO Founder Journey, May 2023 · watch at 1:37

It's a game of bottom-up sales. I love bottom-up sales. I think people go top down because they're lazy. I always want to sell to where the pain is greatest, because that's the person who cares the most.

TechTO Founder Journey, May 2023 · watch at 11:43

We were bootstrapped and cashflow positive for the first four years of our business before we raised our seed round.

TechTO Founder Journey, May 2023 · watch at 19:16

No transparency, no visibility. You are not the customer — you move at the pace of the system.

TechTO, Jul 2024 · watch at 3:09

We're actually taking all of this free text from these 800 different hospitals that are sending 40 million images and reports to PocketHealth every single month.

TechTO, Jul 2024 · watch at 6:38

We saw the wave — everyone saw it — but we felt this was the most important thing, because it got us to product-market fit and it got us to loving our jobs.

TechTO, Jul 2024 · watch at 10:12
A few quotes can’t cover everything Rishi said on the TechTO stage. 1,600+ talks are searchable.Ask about Rishi

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Quick answers

What is Rishi Nayyar known for?

Co-founding PocketHealth in 2016 with his brother Harsh and growing it into a medical imaging platform used by 1.5 million+ patients across 800+ hospitals and imaging centres in the US and Canada.

What did Rishi Nayyar do before PocketHealth?

He worked in corporate and investment banking at Citigroup in Toronto, and holds an HBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University.

How many times has Rishi Nayyar spoken at TechTO?

Twice — a 2023 Founder Journey conversation and a 2024 talk on using AI to build a patient-centric future.

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