Where Clinical Vision Meets Financial Clarity
To scale a healthcare mission, it is imperative to integrate clinical vision with the execution of a sustainable growth strategy. It requires rigorous financial strategy, clear operational insight, and the ability to command the attention of capital markets without diluting the integrity of care. That’s where 20-year healthcare veteran Vasanta Pundarika operates. During her 18 years in healthcare investment banking, Vasanta sat across the table from the institutional investors shaping the future of care. She’s raised billions, built strategic growth plans across every sector of healthcare, and advised companies through complex inflection points.
But over time, one truth became undeniable: the system fails women, not just at the bedside, but from the boardroom table. She first saw that women were missing in the equation in behavioral health. And if that was the case, where else were we missing them? The answer was everywhere. Vasanta wanted to be part of the solution, so, she founded Lotuspring, an advisory business that focuses on integrating real clinical missions with scalable business strategies.
Today, Vasanta sits on the other side of the equation, helping founders and CEOs in women’s and behavioral health scale businesses that matter. She translates mission into financial language investors understand and designs strategic infrastructures that allow care to expand, not erode. Her work ensures that visionary health companies don’t collapse under misalignment, but scale with clarity, capital, and credibility. What sets her apart isn’t just her financial acumen, but her rare ability to navigate across clinical, operational, and investment domains, bringing alignment where most companies fracture.
Vasanta is the strategist you call when you’re no longer willing to compromise; when the mission is urgent, the vision is real, and it’s time to build something that actually lasts.
From Wall Street to Women’s Health:
A Shift Toward Solutions
Vasanta Pundarika spent nearly two decades as a healthcare investment banker, executing mergers & acquisitions, advising on debt and equity issuances, and advising companies as they scaled across sectors.
But over time, she saw the same systemic issue repeat itself: healthcare companies were excluding women from their care strategy. Simultaneously, she watched friends and family navigate that same broken system. From delayed diagnoses to mismanaged care to specialists who never listened, the gaps in women’s and behavioral health became too glaring to ignore.
So she did what few with her credentials ever do: she switched sides. She stepped out of the investment banking world and into direct strategic advisory, with a vision to help the right companies grow the right way. Today, she works directly with founders and CEOs to scale businesses that serve patients, especially women, with the urgency and integrity they deserve.
She advises. She aligns. She architects. She ensures the companies that matter most don’t fall apart under pressure but build stronger, smarter, and more sustainable paths to long-term care. Ultimately, Vasanta is on a mission to improve healthcare for women.
Official Bio
Vasanta Pundarika is a recognized healthcare leader and board member specializing in women’s health and behavioral health. As the CEO and Founder of Lotuspring, a healthcare-focused business advisory firm, she helps visionary companies scale health missions that align care, capital, and growth. Her work spans strategic planning, financial structuring, and operational execution, with a focus on translating vision into sustainable scale and ensuring that mission and money move together.
With nearly two decades of experience as a healthcare investment banker, Vasanta has advised on complex M&A, debt, and equity transactions across deal sizes from startups to multi-billion-dollar companies. Her deep expertise in behavioral health, women’s health, healthcare systems, and related service sectors gives her a distinctive perspective—one that brings financial fluency and clinical conviction together to design growth without compromise.
A frequent industry speaker and thought leader, Vasanta has appeared at Women’s Health Horizons Summit, Behavioral Health Tech, BHB Invest, REAL Summit, and others. She is a member of WBL (Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation), a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and is NACD.DC Director certified, serves as Board Treasurer at Sakhi – For South Asian Survivors, and is an active Princeton University alumna. Her career reflects an unwavering belief that when mission and money align, healthcare scales sustainably—and care improves for everyone.
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If you’re building or investing in a healthcare company that needs to grow sustainably, without losing sight of its mission, Lotuspring can help you align your financial and operational strategy to achieve it.