Our story

We didn't build an app. We built the missing layer.

Health intelligence has never been more powerful. Wearables count everything. Yet one layer is still missing — the one that connects what your body does to why it does it. Pauser is that layer.

The thesis

The data is everywhere. The context is nowhere.

The world got extraordinarily good at collecting health data and remarkably poor at understanding it. Your wearable knows your heart rate spiked. It has no idea it was the 3pm meeting, the skipped lunch, or the flight you’re about to board.
Pauser is Contextual Biofeedback Intelligence — the layer between the signal and the outcome. It correlates your physiology with your lived context and turns passive measurement into a feedback loop you can actually act on. Not another dashboard. Not another alert. A genuine moment of self-knowledge, delivered at the moment it matters.
Timing is not a feature. It is the entire mechanism.
Pauser founding thesis

How Contextual Biofeedback Intelligence works

Identify. Understand. Deliver.

CBI connects physiological signals with the real-life context around them — heart rate, sleep, activity, mood, water and sodium intake, calendar events, environment and daily routine — through a simple three-stage framework.

Stage 01

Identify

What triggered the physiological response

Stage 02

Understand

The context around it, so cause becomes clear.

Stage 03

Deliver

A timely Pause, to respond, not react.

How it began

It began with a personal practice. Over thirty years, Sanjiv learned that the ability to pause — at the right moment, before the trigger fires — wasn’t a wellness abstraction. It was a measurable, teachable, deliverable mechanism. The question that wouldn’t leave him: what if technology could deliver that pause to anyone, exactly when they needed it?

 

He found two people who refused to look away from the same problem. Maulesh, an enterprise technology leader who had spent fifteen years in community service, and Yatin, who had spent sixteen years working hands-on with children — both convinced that self-awareness is the foundational capability for a stable, resilient human life, and that the tools to build it had been out of reach for far too long.

 

What united all three wasn’t an opportunity. It was an urgency. The world, as they saw it, needed this yesterday. So they built it.

The order of the words matters

Purpose first. Profit follows.

Pauser was formed for one reason — to help humanity understand its innermost self and build a better overall wellbeing. Purpose leads. Profit is the consequence of doing the first thing well. It shapes what we build, what we refuse to build, and who we build it for.
Who we serve

The same engine, applied where it matters most.

Pauser’s intelligence is built to serve individuals — and to scale across the systems that shape health.

Who we serve

Individuals

Healthcare

Insurers

Employers

Kids & ND

POTS

Who we serve

Context=signal

Timing

Platform

Service first

01

Individuals & Families

Your personal companion that learns your patterns and delivers a pause at the moment it does the most good. No experience required — just a better next sixty seconds.
02

Healthcare Providers

A continuous, contextual signal between appointments — bridging episodic visits and the real life where health is actually shaped.
03

Insurance Carriers

A shift from reactive claims to proactive outcomes, powered by daily regulation rather than annual snapshots.
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Large Employers

Workforce wellbeing that goes deeper than a step count — real resilience, measurably built.
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Kids & Neurodiversity

Early self-awareness for the people who benefit most, including children and families navigating autism-related anxiety.
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POTS & Heart-Rate Conditions

For people who want continuous awareness, a personal sit-and-stand check, simple salt and water logging, and reports they can share with their clinician. Supportive and non-diagnostic.
The founders

Three people. One urgency.

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Maulesh Kanani

Co-Founder · GTM & Partnerships

A serial entrepreneur and enterprise technology leader with 15+ years of community service. He joined for the mission, not the market.

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Yatin Ladani

Co-Founder · Youth & Community

Enterprise tech leader and 16+ years working with children in sports and education. He believes self-awareness is the foundation of a resilient life.

Sanjiv Parikh

Co-Founder · Product & Platform

Background

30+ years of personal practice gave Pauser its founding insight: the pause, delivered at the right moment, is a mechanism — not a metaphor.

At Pauser

Shapes Pauser’s product vision and platform strategy, translating that insight into the experience people use every day.

The moment before the moment is where everything changes.

Maulesh Kanani

Co-Founder · Go-to-market & partnerships

Background

A serial entrepreneur and enterprise technology leader with 15+ years of community service.

At Pauser

Leads go-to-market and partnerships, bringing Pauser to the people and organizations who need it.
He joined for the mission, not the market.

Yatin Ladani

Co-Founder · Youth & community health

Background

Enterprise tech leader and 16+ years working with children in sports and education.

At Pauser

Leads Pauser’s youth, community and neurodiversity work — the reason he joined.
Self-awareness is the foundation of a resilient life.
What we stand for

Four commitments that decide what we build.

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Context is the signal

Physiological data without life context often lacks meaning. The context around a reading is not background detail — it is the signal. We design everything to make that context visible.
02

Timing is everything

The right intervention at the right moment can matter more than a better one delivered too late. We optimise for the moment before the moment.
03

Platform, not point solution

Pauser is building foundational infrastructure for understanding human regulation — not a single feature, but a platform that grows with the people and organizations it serves.
04

Service comes first

Community impact and wellbeing come before growth metrics. We measure success by how well people understand themselves, not by vanity numbers.

The wearable tells you what happened. Pauser tells you why.

Join 30,000+ people across the globe — still in beta, already changing how they understand themselves.