Line of Sight Podcast · Don Heider PhD, Brigit Helms PhD

Innovating to Protect Vulnerable Newborns with Bempu’s Ratul Narain

·51 min·4 clips
Ratul reveals how their bracelet caught a baby's hypothermia, alerting nurses to a severe spinal infection just in time.
Karen Rundy interviews Ratul Narain, founder of Bempu, about his journey creating medical devices to save newborns in low-resource settings. They discuss the impact of products like the temp watch and apneaboot, challenges during COVID, and the importance of community and work-life balance in social entrepreneurship.

As heard by us

A grounded founder story about newborn health, hospital sales, and the long drag between promise and purchase.

Ratul Narain's Bempu story stays grounded in the messy work of building a product for newborns. Karen Rundy keeps the conversation close to the hard parts: hospital sales, clinical studies, procurement, and the slow grind of getting a medical product into the right hands.

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Why you'd press play

You want a founder story that turns newborn safety into a scaling problem.

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