About / Our Story

The story so far.

Started in 2010. Mumbai. One founder, no investors. Most of what came next
we did not plan.

Amit Mehta started Unived in 2010 as a proprietorship. He was an athlete — amateur, but serious — and a reader of nutrition research. He did not start because he saw a gap. He started because he wanted to do something creative, which he defines as producing something original, of true value — around sports and nutrition. That was the dream.

What happened next was nothing he had planned:

Dreams turned into thoughts. Thoughts triggered action. Action led to execution. Execution led to failure. Failure offered learnings. Learnings improved execution. Improved execution created small possibilities. Small possibilities repeated, and formed shapes. Shapes came together and began to resemble the dream. The dream turned into reality. Reality began to feel like a dream. We keep dreaming.

Fourteen years on, the dream has become a company. The dreaming has not stopped.

The founding question — still asked for every formulation

Why exactly this dose, of exactly this ingredient form, in exactly this amount?

The answer has to come from the literature. Not from convention. Not from what fits the label. The literature.

Our History

Year by year, in the founder's own words.

Notes written by Amit as each year unfolded. The voice and grammar reflect when they were written — early notes are looser, later notes more measured. Click any year.

2010
The Beginning

I returned to India in August 2010, and two weeks later founded Unived, I was 27. The idea was to do something creative – produce something original, of true value. And, do this with a team of inexperienced but intelligent & dedicated folk – the first three to join were fresh out of college at 23, 23 & 21 years of age. The adventure had begun!

"The question was never whether we could make something that sold well. It was whether we could make something we were willing to stand behind."

— Amit Mehta · Founder & CEO
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