Shubh Anand
Director, Patient Strategy & Operations at Rula
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Director, Patient Strategy & Operations
2023 - Current
Round 3 in mental health; focused on creating affordable (read accepts insurance) and outcome based access to psychiatric care! We’ve scaled psych 10x in the last 12 months but are just getting started!
Rula is a leading company in the behavioral healthcare space, with a mission to make mental healthcare work for everyone.
Raised $110,850,000.00 from Hedosophia.
Senior Product Manager, Growth
2023 - 2023
Now trying to find and scale growth loops at Cerebral as owner of the growth hacking team.
Senior Manager, Self Pay
2022 - 2023
I was always going to end back up building in behavioral health - lucky that it's at the fastest-growing mental health company around! P&L owner, reporting to the GM, for our largest service line with > 100k subs - focused on building a sustainable and profitable business.
Senior Manager, Central Ops
2020 - 2022
There’s not many challenges harder than making American healthcare more affordable, accessible or effective. I just had to join the company attempting to do all three. Bittersweet leaving Ready but was hard to pass up on an opportunity to get back to building in behavioral health.
Ready Responders is an on-demand healthcare service company that brings medical care directly to patients in their homes.
Raised $107,389,000.00 from Town Hall Ventures, Frist Cressey Ventures, Google Ventures, City Light Capital and Deerfield.
Board Observer
2020 - 2020
Learnt the ins and outs of decision making at a venture backed mission driven company. My years of obsession with behavioral psychology came in handy - Motimatic is trying to use advertising to drive positive behavior change in ed, healthcare & cybersecurity.. (instead of just getting you to buy stuff)
Motimatic provides university recruitment and enrollment solutions.
Raised $7,400,000.00 from City Light Capital, University Ventures, New Markets Venture Partners, Mike McCaffery, University Ventures, Jefferson Education Accelerator, New Markets Venture Partners and GSV Ventures.
Associate
2018 - 2020
Got a chance to build relationships with and invest in entrepreneurs making the world, measurably, a better place! Seed - Serie B investments in healthcare, education, and climate tech. Some companies I sourced - Cerebral, Brightline, GetLabs, Ellipsis, ShiftOne, Zero Grocery, Bright Parenting Also, I got to be part of a small part building The Machine - City Light's data engine to help source and vet deal flow and improve internal processes.
City Light is a venture capital firm that invest in impactful companies in the areas of education, safety and care, and the environment.
Mentor
2020 - 2020
Junior VC job searches are never fun - I’d like the next generation to have it easier than I did
Co-Founder
2017 - 2018
After struggling with my own mental health, attempted to build a behavioral health company in India while living on the other side of the globe. Took far too long to realize this was a bad idea but learnt more than I could’ve ever imagined.
Analyst
2016 - 2018
Had my first tryst with the imposter syndrome. Was asked to do things I’d never done before or was taught how to for multiple early stage companies - succeeded at some, failed at others but attempted every thing.
Summer Intern
2015 - 2015
Deloitte Tax is an advisory firm that provides tax preparation and advisory services.