How Meena Ganesh Built Portea, India's Leading Home Health Care with 150000+ Home Visits Every Month

Founded in 2013, Portea Medical, India's Leading Home Health Care Company employs over 4000 people and covers 40+ cities in India doing 1,50,000+ home visits every month. Portea has also helped about 5,00,000 COVID-19 patients, working with seven different cities and state governments, including Delhi, Mumbai, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Chennai, Bengaluru, and all of Karnataka. Meena Ganesh, Chairperson, and Co-Founder, Portea Medical is one of India’s most celebrated entrepreneurs and business leaders. She sits on the boards of numerous firms like Axis Bank and has a string of start-up successes to her credit. She co-founded her first company, Customer Asset, in 2000 and later on sold it to ICICI. Then came TutorVista, which she ran successfully till it was acquired by British publishing giant Pearson. Before founding Portea, Meena also served Pearson India as the chief executive officer and managing director. With her incredible career and achievements, she also became part of Fortune India’s ‘50 Most Powerful Women in Indian Business’ from 2015 to 2021. In today’s episode, we talk with Meena about her entrepreneurial journey so far, learnings from building a healthcare startup in India, and why even though getting two large exists previously, she still thinks that the journey with her third venture Portea is the most satisfying in terms of learnings. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 02:04 - Family background & what got Meena into entrepreneurship 08:02 - Brainstorming Ideas during the conception of Portea 12:46 - Milestones after Series A till date 17:53 - Her thoughts on the notion that - “It’s difficult to create money from healthcare & health-tech startups” 21:36 - Zoho Sponsored – Prashant Ganti on Where do founders struggle with Payroll and how can they fix it? 22:37 - How has the pricing model evolved at Portea? 24:06 - Learnings from building in healthcare in India 27:14 - How has she grown as a founder during her entrepreneurial journey? 30:04 - Her fundraising journey at Portea30:33 - Balancing investor-founder relations over the course of a startup’s journey 32:07 - Managing her time between GrowthStory, Portea, and home We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Zoho Payroll 💥 With Zoho Payroll, you can automate routine payroll tasks and pay on time EVERY TIME!! Be Less Admin & More Entrepreneur 😎 Try a 30-day free trial here👇 https://zoho.to/payroll-by-zoho 100x Entrepreneur is a podcast series hosted by Siddhartha Ahluwalia, a 2x founder, and VC & Startup Business Development Manager, South at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Siddhartha brings insightful conversations from successful entrepreneurs and VCs, helping you grow 100x of yourself. We release a new episode of our podcast every Monday on YouTube:    / @theneonshoww   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/73VanEv... iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast... CastBox: https://castbox.fm/channel/100x-Entre... Every Monday, we send out a weekly newsletter about the latest developments in the startup and investing ecosystem and our podcast's learnings. Subscribe to our newsletter to never miss out on new episodes: Follow us on our Social Media Channels to get the latest startup and investing updates and connect with us: LinkedIn:   / 100xentrepreneur   Twitter:   / 100xentr   Instagram:   / 100xentrepreneur   Building Home Healthcare Startup with 1,50,000+ Home Visit Every Month Ft. Meena Ganesh, CEO-Portea #entrepreneur #podcast #business