This week, Aashi Arora sat down with Asha Kumar—literary manager, producer, and founder of Door 38 Management & Production—and her husband Anil Punyapu, founder and CEO of UpHealth.ai.Asha’s path stretched from scaling a network of imaging centers in healthcare to building a creative firm that develops films, TV series, and documentaries amplifying underrepresented voices. Anil spent two decades helping grow Cvent from a two-person startup into a global SaaS powerhouse before launching UpHealth.ai to address stress and burnout in the workplace.
Together, they co-founded the Padmavati Family Foundation and remain deeply involved in philanthropic work from UCLA to Akshaya Patra USA.In this episode, Asha and Anil reveal how their professional accomplishments connect with a family mission to create space for giving, education, and empowerment.
