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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2025. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Sameer ↗
In their words
when you know how to do diligence, it becomes this private equity or kind of like a consulting exercise where you say here's a market, here's all the risks — and inevitably whenever you do diligence on an idea, you find out all the reasons why it's not going to work.
it becomes actually counterintuitively perhaps harder as you get older was my reflection.
you could be blissfully ignorant and you could just go after problems and whatever the obstacles that emerge you would just figure out a way to get past them.
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Quick answers
What is NiaHealth?
A Canadian preventive health company: advanced diagnostics plus a personalised plan reviewed by clinicians, positioned alongside the public system rather than replacing it.
What was Sensassure?
His first company, which built incontinence-detection sensors for long-term care. It was acquired by the hygiene group Essity, where Dhar became a managing director.
Why did he live in nursing homes?
To understand the problem first-hand. He spent a year across three North American nursing homes watching what residents and nursing staff actually dealt with.