Rewriting Fertility: A Conversation with Nidhi Panchmal
Nidhi Panchmal is the pioneering co-founder of Arva Health , a company reimagining modern fertility care in India. As one of the few female leaders in India’s fertility tech space, she is disrupting the IVF landscape with a bold, empathetic, and patient-first approach. Q: So what exactly prompted you to start Arva? Was there a personal story behind it, or something that inspired you? A: I think I was around 25 at the time, right after COVID, and honestly, I had never really thought about my health much before then. I’d always been really fit. I was an athlete, so I assumed that meant I was healthy. But I never actually stopped to understand what my health looked like beyond that. And when you’re younger, it just doesn’t feel urgent. No one really tells you it should be. You’re not taught to take it seriously until it suddenly starts to matter. Around that time, my co-founder Deepalie, who’s also been a close friend since we were kids, and I kept getting asked the usual question...