Yuvraj Singh Is Betting on Deepak Sahni Again, Before UN:BLOC Even Has a Product

Yuvraj Singh has done this before. Back in 2015, when Deepak Sahni was building Healthians into one of India’s largest at-home diagnostics networks, Yuvraj backed him through his fund YouWeCan Ventures, at a stage when institutional money was still hard to come by for the company.

A decade later, Sahni is starting over. And Yuvraj is showing up again, this time even earlier.

Yuvraj has joined UN:BLOC, Sahni’s new healthtech venture, as both an investor and a member of the founding team. The company is still in stealth. There’s no product to try, no launch date, and barely any public detail about what it actually does. Yuvraj is committing anyway.

What UN:BLOC is trying to build

Sahni founded UN:BLOC earlier this year, not long after stepping down from day-to-day responsibilities at Healthians in January 2026 to, in his own words, focus on solving deeper problems in healthcare and building new ventures with more clarity. Healthians made diagnostic testing accessible at scale. UN:BLOC is aiming at something bigger and messier: chronic disease management.

The pitch, as far as it’s been shared, is a shift away from treating chronic illness as something to be managed with medication for life. Instead, UN:BLOC wants to build an AI-powered platform that goes after the root cause, spanning early diagnosis, treatment and ongoing disease management under one system. Headquartered in Gurugram, the company says it wants to focus on areas of healthcare that have received relatively less attention.

That’s still a broad, early-stage framing. No product architecture, timeline, or specific disease focus has been made public yet, and Startup INDIAX is flagging that as unconfirmed until UN:BLOC shares more.

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A relationship, not just a round

What makes this deal worth writing about isn’t the size of the check. It’s the timing. UN:BLOC’s model and product are still being kept under wraps, which means Yuvraj is committing before the wider world knows what the company is actually building. He’s betting on the founder, not the pitch deck.

Sahni has been direct about what that means to him. “Yuvi backed me when I was building Healthians, at a time when very few people did,” he said, adding that having him return as an investor and founding team member “means a great deal to me personally.” Yuvraj, for his part, has described knowing Sahni for over twelve years and believing UN:BLOC has the potential to change how people think about health.

The company is currently raising a pre-launch round from a small circle of founders, healthcare leaders and business executives. No funding amount has been disclosed, and this should be read as an early, developing story rather than a closed round.

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The bigger pattern: cricketers as repeat startup backers

UN:BLOC isn’t happening in isolation. Indian cricketers have increasingly moved from brand ambassadors to startup investors over the past decade, with more than 20 current and former players now holding stakes across fintech, healthtech, D2C, fitness, gaming, EVs and consumer products. Virat Kohli has built one of the largest athlete-led investment portfolios in the country, while MS Dhoni, Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya have all backed gaming startup LightFury Games.

Yuvraj’s angle is narrower and arguably more interesting: he isn’t spreading bets across sectors, he’s doubling down on one founder he’s watched build a company from scratch before. That’s a different kind of conviction than a celebrity checking a box on a hot sector.

It also lands at a moment when Indian healthtech is drawing real institutional money, not just celebrity interest. Preventive healthcare platform CENT, founded by Practo’s co-founder Shashank ND, is building precision radiology tools to catch diseases before symptoms appear. In June, healthtech startup Mykare raised an additional $1 million, AI-native platform SuperLiving closed a $7 million Series A led by Lightspeed, and paediatric care brand Hoola Health secured $5 million from Peak XV’s Surge. Analysts peg India’s homegrown healthtech opportunity at roughly $37 billion by 2030.

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Why founders should be watching this

For early-stage founders, the UN:BLOC story is less about the specific startup and more about what it says about fundraising leverage. Sahni didn’t need a working product, a website, or even a disclosed thesis to get a marquee name into his founding team. He needed a track record and a relationship he’d invested in years earlier.

That’s not a repeatable trick for most first-time founders. But it’s a reminder that in India’s current healthtech climate, with AI tooling and post-pandemic consumer awareness pushing serious capital toward the sector, reputation and prior execution are starting to matter as much as the pitch itself, especially at the earliest, riskiest stage.

UN:BLOC still has to prove it can build what it says it wants to build. But it’s already proven something else: that a decade-old bet, paid back once, can buy a founder a running start the second time around.

Got thoughts on cricketers building serious startup portfolios, or on what UN:BLOC might actually launch with? Drop them in the comments, and keep an eye on Startup INDIAX for updates as more details on UN:BLOC surface.

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