Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based Founder operating in the Wellness space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Steve Gatena
Founder & CEO of Pray.com
Steve is the founder of pray.com, the digital destination for faith. Steve is an American Entrepreneur, Media Producer, and NCAA Champion. In 2019, Steve was honored as a CSQ 40 Under 40 Visionary. Steve has also received an Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the United Nations in a program sponsored by Dell & Intel, and been named #8 on the Forbes list of Famous Multi-Generational Entrepreneurs.
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About Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Pray.com: Pray.com is the #1 app for daily prayer & faith-based audio content
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Michael Lynn
Founder & CFO of Pray.com
Michael is the founder of pray.com, a social impact company for Non-Profits and Faith Organizations. Pray.com’s vision is to create a world where everyone leaves a legacy of helping others. Pray.com’s private social network gives Faith Organizations and Non-Profits the ability to organize their membership, run small groups & events, and raise funds for causes they care about most.
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About Pray.com: Pray.com is the #1 app for daily prayer & faith-based audio content
Gwyneth Paltrow
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Goop
Gwyneth Paltrow is one of today’s most prolific and celebrated actors in both television and film. Additionally, Paltrow continues to develop her lifestle brand: Goop; wellness advice, clean beauty, fashion & home. A testament to her undeniable acting talent is Paltrow’s role in Shakespeare in Love that catapulted her into awards stardom with Best Actress honors at the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and Academy Awards. In 2011. Gwyneth Paltrow was also honored with an Emmy Award for Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as substitute teacher Holly Holiday on Fox’s smash-hit musical series Glee. In 2013, Paltrow published her second cookbook, It’s All Good, which joined her first-ever cookbook, My Father’s Daughter (published April 2011), on the New York Times Best Sellers list. She first established her credibility in the culinary field when she cowrote Spain, A Culinary Road Trip with acclaimed chef Mario Batali.
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About Goop: Goop is a lifestyle brand providing digital content and commerce.
Jessica Richman
Co Founder & CEO of uBiome
Jessica Richman is the co-founder and CEO of uBiome, a startup that uses big data and citizen science to understand the human microbiome. Jessica started and sold her first company after high school. Returning to formal education, she attended Stanford University, where she earned degrees in Economics and Science, Technology & Society (interdisciplinary engineering, emphasis in computer science). Along the way, she worked for Google, McKinsey, Lehman Brothers, the Grameen Bank, and top-tier Silicon Valley venture firms as well as other entrepreneurial projects and adventures. Her work has been published in The New York Times and other national publications. Jessica arrived at Oxford University as a Clarendon Scholar and completed an MSc at the Oxford Internet Institute. Currently a Green Templeton DPhil Scholar, her academic interests include network analytics, innovation, and collective intelligence. Her work has been featured in Wired, MIT Technology Review, Scientific American, NPR, FoxNews, ABC News, and dozens of other media outlets. She has spoken at TEDMED, TEDxBrussels, Partnering for Cures, the American Society for Microbiology, HealthFoo, SciFoo, Oxford University, the University of California San Francisco, and many other conferences and venues.
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About uBiome: uBiome is a provider of public access to DNA sequencing technology to understand the microbiome.
Zachary Apte
Co – Founder and CTO of uBiome
Zachary Apte is a Co-Founder and CTO of uBiome. Trained in both theoretical high-energy physics and biophysics, Dr. Apte earned his PhD in biophysics from the University of California, San Francisco. Before uBiome, he founded a synthetic biology company based on his invention of a novel microfluidics devices and funded by the US Department of Energy. While a university student at Hampshire College, he built an open science web platform and was integral in the initial research and development for the project that became the first published carbon-emissions rating label in North America.
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About Bioparaiso, uBiome: uBiome is a provider of public access to DNA sequencing technology to understand the microbiome.
Yi Liu
Founder & CEO of iHealth Labs
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About iHealth Labs: iHealth offers cloud-based, personal healthcare products for individuals of all ages to take a more active role in managing their health.
Erica Johnson
Co-Founder of Modern Health
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About Modern Health: Modern Health is a mental well-being platform for innovative companies offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided courses all in one app.
Alyson Watson
Founder & CEO of Modern Health
Alyson Friedensohn is a founder and CEO at Modern Health.
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About Modern Health: Modern Health is a mental well-being platform for innovative companies offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided courses all in one app.
Torri Shack
CEO / Co-Founder of Twella
Energetic and innovative Business Development Executive with more than 10 + years of experience in building and managing highly motivated sales and delivery teams. Flair for developing and growing market penetration through strategic partnerships, creative marketing and sales campaigns. Track record of building substantial sales and marketing teams and systems. PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY • Strong leadership skills with a proven history of building motivated and focused teams by investing in people through listening, coaching, training and mentoring. • 15 years’ experience in selling across a variety of platforms including outbound phone sales, cold calling, qualifying and converting leads, presentations, networking and managing a geographically distributed sales force. • Broad sales and business development experience across various industries including: property, mortgage, real estate, wellness, and technology. • Experienced in designing and implementing targeted focused sales and marketing campaigns with a track record of rapidly growing and maintaining market share. • Well-developed analytical and problem-solving skills. • Broad social media and technology experience with an innate understanding of what will work best on which platform. • Managed and exceeded KPI’s across various and diverse industries. • Strong financial management, budgeting and forecasting skills. • Highly organized with great time managements skills with the ability to focus on detail without losing sight of the bigger picture.
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About Tangible Movement, Twella: A mindful approach to mental wellness
Robert C. Walker
Founder, Investor, and Board Member of LARQ
Robert C. Walker has 20 years experience in the LED and compound semiconductor world, particularly in Asia, and 6 years of venture capital experience. He was formerly a Partner at Sierra Ventures and CEO of BridgeLux. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech.
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About LARQ: LARQ helps people access pristine drinking water easily and sustainably.
Daniel Broukhim
Co-Founder & Co-Chief Executive Officer of FabFitFun
Daniel Broukhim is CEO and Co-founder of Charlie and FabFitFun.
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About FabFitFun: FabFitFun offers subscription services that allow its members to discover brands and products.
Michael Broukhim
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of FabFitFun
Michael Broukhim has directed new media strategy for leading entertainment, corporate, non-profit, and political clients. Before Charlie, Michael co-founded and led product initiatives at TotSpot, which earned top honors at Twiistup, Los Angeles’ premiere startup showcase. Michael graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College where he was awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding research. At Harvard, Michael served as the Editorial Chair for the Crimson and earned a National Pacemaker Award for his writing. In addition to his work at Charlie, Michael is earning his JD/MBA at Stanford and invests in early stage startups.
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About Charlie, FabFitFun: FabFitFun offers subscription services that allow its members to discover brands and products.
Katie Echevarria Rosen Kitchens
Editor in Chief and Co-Founder of FabFitFun
Katie Echevarria Rosen Kitchens is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of FabFitFun. She is a former VP of events and marketing at Out of the Box Events and LA Editor at Shecky’s Media, Inc.
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About FabFitFun: FabFitFun offers subscription services that allow its members to discover brands and products.
Dwight Crow
Co-Founder and CEO of Whisper
Dwight Crow is a product manager at [Facebook](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook#/entity), an online social networking service. Previously, he served as the founder of Carsabi.com. He is also the Co-Founder and CEO at Whisper.ai. Crow holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical biology and computer science from the [University of California, Berkeley](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-california-berkeley#/entity). He is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Meta, Whisper: Whisper develops AI-enabled, updateable hearing aids for people with hearing loss.
Andrew Song
President and Co-Founder of Whisper
Andrew Song is the President and Co-Founder at Whisper.
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About Whisper: Whisper develops AI-enabled, updateable hearing aids for people with hearing loss.
Shlomo Zippel
Co-Founder of Whisper
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About Whisper: Whisper develops AI-enabled, updateable hearing aids for people with hearing loss.
David Agus
Co-Founder of SENSEI Holdings
David Agus is an American physician and a New York Times bestselling author. He is a Professor of Medicine and Engineering at the University of Southern California. He is co-founder of Navigenics, a personalized medicine company and Applied Proteomics, as well as a CBS News contributor.
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About Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC, SENSEI Holdings, University of Southern California: Guiding you towards greater wellbeing.
Rod Burreson
Founder and President of Roex
Rod Burreson, the company’s founder and President, is a former athlete and body builder who has experienced a myriad of ailments and injuries resulting from these activities. Mr. Burreson became committed to finding and developing non-pharmaceutical solutions to improve his own quality of life. Not content with the current products and formulas on the market, Mr. Burreson, through education, research, and the collaboration of many of the finest professionals in their field, began to develop the highest quality formulas and comprehensive products that would meet his own specific health needs. Recognizing the tremendous health benefits he experienced, Rod realized that many other people could benefit from these types of products as well. Armed with the antioxidant (PC-95) he imported from Europe, Rod subsequently formed Roex Inc. in 1994, a company dedicated to finding solutions for some of the many problems associated with aging and nutritional deficiency. Since introducing PC-95, Roex has steadily added products to its line. Today, thanks to you, our loyal customers, Roex is one of the fastest growing companies in the nutritional supplement industry.
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About Roex: Roex is one of the fastest growing companies in the nutritional and dietary supplement industry.
Moawia Eldeeb
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Tempo
Moawia Eldeeb is the co-founder and CEO of Tempo.
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About Tempo: Tempo is a home fitness platform, combining equipment, training guidance, and social motivation with 3D sensors and artificial intelligence.
Philip Fung
Founder / CEO of Kit.com
Founder/CEO @Kit.com, Engineer #15 @Facebook
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About Kit.com: Kit.com is a home medical exams, delivered. Kit makes health testing simpler, easier and more reliable for your patients.
Jeni Mayorskaya
Founder & CEO of Stork Club
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About Stork Club: Stork Club is a maternity care platform that extends insurance coverage and provides all possible options to people who want to have a baby.
Farbood Nivi
CEO & Co-Founder of Orchestra One
After teaching for a decade, Farb founded Grockit in December of 2006 with the goal of helping learners connect to teach each other. He grew up in both Canada and The United States and is a graduate of The University of Michigan. In the past, he founded Vision Computer Solutions in Northville Michigan and WAPonimizer, the first privacy service for cell phones. He has been a winner in the MIT Sloan Business School 1K Entrepreneurship competition and has been The Princeton Review’s National Teacher of the Year.
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About Coinmine, Learnist, Orchestra One, Socratic Labs: Orchestra One is a free web-based scheduling, payments and communications system for private practices.
Aness An
Co-Founder & CCO of Rael
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About Rael: Rael makes natural and organic period products that don’t sacrifice comfort or performance.
Binna Won
CPO & Co-Founder of Rael
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About Rael: Rael makes natural and organic period products that don’t sacrifice comfort or performance.
David Renteln
Co-Founder of Soylent
David brings broad experience in operations and sales to Soylent where he sets up strategic business partnerships and drives the sales channels. Prior to this, he was the first employee at a biotech devices start up and co-founded an education technology company. David graduated from Harvard with a degree in Human Evolutionary Biology, where he also served as President of the Harvard Rugby Team.
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About Lucy Goods, Rosa Labs, Soylent: Soylent is a pioneer in food tech, producing delicious, functional foods, w/ complete nutrition that are good for the body & the planet
Grant Hosking
Co-Founder of Even
Grant is an entrepreneur at heart. With over 11 years of experience on Wall Street as an investment banker, Grant has advised numerous mergers and acquisitions with an aggregate value of over $50 billion. Like Sarah, Grant saw loved ones—including his father—suffer the negative side effects of crucial medications, inspiring him to help make Even a reality.
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About Even: Even offers a new kind of medical food to pair with medication, to help bring the body back into balance.
Jaganath Swamy
Co-Founder, CEO of Kiddo
Jaganath “CJ” Swamy CJ Swamy is the CEO and Co-Founder of Good Parents Inc. He leads strategy and operations for Kiddo and has successfully raised over $8.0 Million in funding from marquee investors in the US and Asia. Prior to that, CJ has 18+ years’ experience as a serial entrepreneur, early stage investor and consultant. He co-founded two companies across Asia previously – one in vitamins manufacturing and the other in logistics/ supply chain. He was previously the lead for US – Asia investments with HarbourVest Partners (one of the leading alternative assets manager in the world with over $74 Billion in AUM). Before that, he led US-Asia investments for Northgate Capital, a California based early stage investor with over $6 Billion in AUM. Previously he also spent 3 years as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Co. primarily working with insurance companies and banks in Asia on product and market strategy. CJ has an MBA (Honors) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and before that graduated with a B.Tech in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
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About HarbourVest Partners, Kiddo: Kiddo is a personalized smart at-home health monitoring platform for children.
Erica Chidi
Co-Founder & CEO of LOOM
Erica Chidi is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at LOOM.
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About LOOM: LOOM is a platform helping women optimize their sexual and reproductive wellbeing.
Chris Wheeler
Co-Founder & CEO of Diagnose Early
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About Diagnose Early, WISC Partners: Diagnose Early provides detection technologies for cancer, neurological, and infectious diseases.
Khoa Tran
Co-Founder of Revery
Khoa is the co-founder of Revery, a mental health gaming company. At the age of 15, Khoa was diagnosed with hypertension and a host of other conditions needing medication. It wasn’t until he was 26 that Khoa found out poor sleep was the root cause. His first-hand experience inspired him to found Revery with a team including Stanford Sleep Medicine directors, an ex-Google product manager, ex-Sequoia Capital investor, and ex-Zynga and King lead game designer, building a mobile game to deliver sleep therapy as their first product. In 2022, Khoa was named Forbes 30 Under 30 in gaming.
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About Revery: Revery is using game thinking to revolutionize wellness.
Arun Venkatesan
Co-Founder of Carrot Fertility
Arun Venkatesan is the Co-Founder of Carrot Fertility. He was a member of South Park Commons prior to that.
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About Carrot Fertility, South Park Commons: Carrot Fertility helps employers offer their workers fertility benefits that are flexible, transparent, and cost-conscious.
Shizu Okusa
Founder & CEO of Apothékary
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About Apothékary: Apothékary is a global plant-based farmacy that offers clean alternatives to over the counter synthetic supplements & beauty products.
Matthew Stoudt
Co-Founder and CEO of AppliedVR
Matthew Stoudt has a strong track record of building innovative businesses. Matthew is currently the co-founder and CEO of appliedVR. appliedVR’s mission is to drive positive behavioral by leveraging the unique properties of VR. The company is initially focused on the health care market and has rapidly become the leading medical VR platform delivering validated therapeutic VR content to health care providers in the US and internationally. Prior to founding appliedVR, Matthew founded and built Outcast Media into the largest digital video platform at gas stations across the US. Matthew sold the business to Verifone in 2014. Matthew was also an EIR at McDonald’s Corporation where he successfully launched multiple businesses including an in-restaurant digital video network and a ready-to-heat meal solution in grocery stores across the US. Matthew began his professional career in finance, raising over $1 billion in capital for high growth companies while at DLJ and investing in high growth companies while at Triumph Capital Group.
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About AppliedVR: AppliedVR offers virtual reality-based therapeutic treatments that address the complexity of chronic pain.
David Sackman
Co-Founder of AppliedVR
David Sackman is the Co-Founder and Chairman at AppliedVR.
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About AppliedVR, Material: AppliedVR offers virtual reality-based therapeutic treatments that address the complexity of chronic pain.
Carl Daikeler
CEO & Co-Founder of Beachbody
CEO/ Co-Founder at Beachbody
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About Beachbody: Beachbody has developed and offering an in-home fitness and weight loss solutions.
Larry Weiss
CEO and Founder of Symbiome
Larry Weiss MD is the Chief Medical Officer at AOBiome. He has an extensive background in natural products chemistry, microbiology, clinical medicine, and pharmaceutical development and product commercialization. Dr. Weiss is board certified in Anesthesiology, has an MD from Stanford University Medical School, and a BS from Cornell University in Biochemistry. He has a multiple patents and is published in the areas of chemistry, electrophysiology, pharmacology, and microbiology. Dr. Weiss is the founder of CleanWell Company.
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About AOBiome, Symbiome: Symbiome offers skincare as nature intended solution which is scientifically and intentionally formulated using ancestral ingredients.
Nanea Reeves
CEO and Co-Founder of TRIPP
As CEO of TRIPP, Nanea Reeves brings over 15 years experience in digital distribution, video game technologies and mobile application development. Prior to co-founding TRIPP, Nanea was President & COO of textPlus, one of the top mobile communications applications on the iOS and Android platforms. Before joining textPlus, Nanea was the COO of Machinima, an online video influencer and content network focused on video games now owned by Warner Brothers. Nanea has also served as Chief Strategy and Product Officer at Gaikai, a cloud gaming company acquired by Sony Playstation. Previous to Gaikai, Nanea was SVP/COO of Global Online for Electronic Arts where she was responsible for building the foundation for EA’s digital revenue streams. Nanea came to EA through their acquisition of JAMDAT where she was SVP of Enabling Technologies. JAMDAT was one of the first breakout mobile games company with a successful IPO in 2005 before being acquired by EA in 2006. Nanea is very committed to supporting the evolution of the technology sector in Los Angeles and has worked as an Advisor and Angel Investor in many exciting So-Cal start-ups including Oculus, Haku and Saucey. Nanea is an active mentor and enjoys public speaking having given 3 Tedx talks on various subjects – including one focused on why girls should play video games. An avid meditator, Nanea also spends her free time playing video games, her ukulele and golf. She is also very active in her late husband’s non-profit Bodhicitta, Inc. as well as dedicated to helping women in recovery at the Peggy Albrecht Friendly House.
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About TRIPP: The award-winning digital psychedelic wellness platform that uses the power of virtual and augmented reality to change the way you feel.
Alon Matas
Founder of BetterHelp
Alon Matas is the founder of BetterHelp, an online counselling platform. Currently, he is a board member of StyleToGo, a marketplace for online style advice. He is also engaged in Health Outcome handling the same position. He has been working with Connected Health Startup Accelerator as advisor and mentor since 2015.
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About BetterHelp, Yazamiya: BetterHelp is an online counseling platform that connects its members to licensed therapists.
Zachary Rubin
Co-Founder of ARENA
Zachary Rubin is a Co-founder of Go Arena.
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About ARENA, LiftLab, W8X: ARENA leads the at-home training center that uses cutting-edge engineering and industry.
Krisna Bhargava
CEO and Co-Founder of ARENA
Krisna Bhargava is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Go Arena.
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About ARENA: ARENA leads the at-home training center that uses cutting-edge engineering and industry.
Noah Lang
Co-Founder & CEO of Stride Health
Noah Lang launched Stride Health to make health insurance human. Stride translates coverage into a language everybody can understand because we believe healthcare decisions don’t have to be difficult. Stride is the first health insurance recommendation engine tuned and tailored to the life of an individual, providing Seamless, intuitive and transparent answers to consumers’ toughest coverage questions. Noah Lang was previously the founding VP of Business Development at Reputation.com where he spent 5 years building consumer products and distribution channels. Noah currently sits on the DMAs Data Governance Advisory Board and was selected as a “Privacy by Design Ambassador” in 2011. Noah is a graduate of Stanford University as a President’s Scholar with a degree in Product Design. Noah is an avid triathlete, skier and endurance sports junkie.
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About Stride Health: Stride Health is a provider of an insurance recommendation platform designed to offer health insurance services.
Kunal Sarkar
Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board of Lumos Labs
Kunal is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lumos Labs. Prior to founding Lumosity, Kunal co-founded the private equity fund AIMLP, which manages over $400MM in capital. The fund focuses on investments in infrastructure and natural resources. Prior to founding AIMLP, Kunal was Vice President at McCown De Leeuw and Co., a $1.2 billion private equity fund making growth equity investments. Kunal started his career in the Strategic Planning and Development group at the Walt Disney Company, where he was involved in the development of Disney’s acquisition strategy and over $5 billion of M&A transactions. Kunal graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.A. in Economics and a certificate in Finance.
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About Lumos Labs: Lumosity is a neuroscience research company that provides online brain training programs.
Michael Geer
Co-Founder & CSO of Humanity
Michael Geer (MG) was founding team at Badoo (grew to largest dating site in the world and spawned the Social Discovery sector). He then ran operations at AnchorFree which became the largest consumer VPN in the world with over 700 million users. He now has cofounded Humanity with Peter Ward to extend the healthspan (healthy fully functional years of life) of every person on earth.
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About Humanity, Humanity: Humanity is a healthcare company that aims to extend the healthspan of humanity.
Cat Lee
Co-Founder & COO of Pace
Cat Lee is the Co-Founder and COO at Pace. Her varied operating roles across people, marketing, product, and engineering enable her to help founders in many different capacities.
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About Pace: Pace is a fitness and social wellness platform that redefines mental health through groups that are effective, fun, social, and challenging.
Jack Chou
Co-Founder and CEO of Pace
Jack Chou is the Co-founder at Pace. Prior to that, he leads the team of product managers who work with the design and engineering teams to build Pinterest. Before becoming head of product at Pinterest, Jack was product manager of the search and discovery teams. He previously spent time as an entrepreneur, and he led the product team for the marketing solutions business at LinkedIn. He earned a degree in computer systems engineering from Stanford University.
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About Pace: Pace is a fitness and social wellness platform that redefines mental health through groups that are effective, fun, social, and challenging.
Kyle Robertson
Founder and CEO of Cerebral
Kyle Robertson is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cerebral.
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About Cerebral: Cerebral is a mental health telemedicine company that offers online care and medication management for anxiety, depression, ADHD and more.
Miray Tayfun
Co-Founder & CEO of Vivoo
Miray Tayfun is the co-founder and the CEO of Vivoo, an application based on urine data that delivers personal advice to the individual for a healthier lifestyle. Miray has completed undergraduate studies in BioEngineering and has completed Stanford postgraduate programs specialising in Go-to-Market Strategies as well as Diet and Gene Expression. Miray has previously founded companies in medical diagnostics, smart homes and smart co-living spaces.
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About Vivoo: Vivoo is a wellness assistant that provides custom nutrition advice to the users based on their urine sample analysis.
George Radman
Co-Founder & CFO of Vivoo
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About Vivoo: Vivoo is a wellness assistant that provides custom nutrition advice to the users based on their urine sample analysis.
Jason Langheier
Founder & CEO of Foodsmart
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About Foodsmart, the Partnership for a Healthier America: Foodsmart is a digital nutrition platform that uses personalized dietary recommendations to improve health outcomes.
Alex Glasscock
Founder/CEO of The Ranch Malibu
Alex Glasscock is the founder and CEO of The Ranch Malibu.
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About The Ranch Malibu: The Ranch Malibu is dedicated to creating a safe, secure, and sacred place to allow for personal awareness and life transformation.
Willem Bult
Co-Founder & CEO of Cloud Sangha
Willem Bult was the co-founder and CTO at RentMethod.
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About Cloud Sangha: Cloud Sangha is a supportive community of meditators from all over the world that provides live, expert guidance.
Hilary Coles
Co-Founder and VP Product of Hims & Hers
Hilary Coles is the co-founder and VP of product at Hims & Hers, men’s and women’s wellness brands that provide access to medical-grade products and preventative solutions via telemedicine.
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About Hims & Hers: Hims is a wellness brand that helps men and women get access to products for skin care, hair loss, and sexual health.
Andrew Dudum
Founder and CEO of Hims & Hers
Andrew is a Founder & CEO at Hims & Hers. He is also a Cofounder and General Partner at Atomic, a venture-builder in San Francisco backed by Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen and many of the leading venture funds in the world. He is serial founder, active angel investor and advisor to over two dozen startups. Andrew graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in Management and Economics.
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About Atomic, Cherubic Ventures, Hims & Hers, LendforPeace.org, Paravision, Trumaker: Hims is a wellness brand that helps men and women get access to products for skin care, hair loss, and sexual health.
Maayan Cohen
CEO & Co-Founder of Hello Heart
Co-Founder, CEO at Hello Doctor
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About Hello Heart: Hello Heart is the leader in cardiovascular digital therapeutics. We help people understand and improve their heart health using technology.
Holly Whitaker
Founder and CEO of Hip Sobriety
Holly Whitaker is Chief Creative Officer, Founder at Tempest.
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About Hip Sobriety, Tempest: Hip Sobriety provides alcohol abuse treatment for Americans.
Sandeep Acharya
CEO & Co-Founder of Octave
Prior to co-founding Octave, Sandeep Acharya led strategy at One Medical for 5 years. In this role, he was responsible for launching and scaling several new services and oversaw the growth of its employer business to over 1,000 companies, while being a member of a senior leadership team that expanded the company to over sixty clinics in eight cities. Before One Medical, he spent his career as an investor, operator, and consultant in the healthcare, retail, and technology sectors at Bain & Co, Bain Capital & Insight Venture Partners. Sandeep holds degrees in computer science & business from Wharton and Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.
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About Octave: Octave is a modern mental health practice creating a new standard for care delivery that’s both high-quality and accessible to more people.
Justin Ip
Founder and CEO of Kick Health
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About Kick Health: Kick Health offers beta-blocker prescriptions, the insider’s edge to blocking nervous symptoms like racing heart, shaky hands and more.
Amit Munjal
Founder & CEO of Doctor Insta
Amit is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Doctor Insta. In his previous role, He was a CFO and Head of Investment Strategy at the $120 Billion Division of CitiGroup. Amit has multiple years of experience in Management Consulting, Private Equity, and Venture Capital and is a Subject Matter Expert in Scaling/Growth and Profit Optimization at e-commerce startups and Fortune 500 companies. Amit has been an active mentor and advisor to many startups in the USA and India and has been involved with Capital Innovators, St Louis, MO (USA)- one of the top 10 accelerators of the Country. Prior to his last role, Amit was a Senior Vice President of Growth & Investment Strategy at Bank of America and also did stints in Corporate Strategy Practice of Deloitte Consulting, in Corporate Development (M&A) with Randstad, and in Venture Capital with Kauffman Foundation. Amit has an MBA from Indiana University-Bloomington (where he was actively involved with Johnson Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation), Advanced Management Certification from Harvard Business School, and is a CFA Charterholder from CFA Institute, USA. In his spare time, he likes to travel, work out, read and try out new restaurants.
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About Doctor Insta: Bringing Healthcare to Everyone’s fingertaps; India’s 1st Video Medicine Company where One can consult Care-Givers anytime, anywhere.
Christopher Coleridge
Co Founder & COO of HUM Nutrition
Christopher Coleridge is the co-founder at Hum Nutrition.
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About HUM Nutrition: HUM is the leading beauty nutrition brand with the mission is to help you look and feel your absolute best all the time.
Ayub Khattak
Founder & CEO of Cue
Ayub Khattak is the CEO and founder at Cue.
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About Cue: Cue helps users track their health at the molecular level, revealing the interplay of activity, food, and sleep.
Arad Rostampour
CEO and Founder of Zenamins
Arad Rostampour is Founder at Zenamins.
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About Zenamins: Zenamins is a subscription service that home delivers a monthly box of preferred vitamins to its subscribers.
Matthew Cauble
Co-Founder & COO of Rosa Labs
Matthew Cauble heads Soylent’s internal project development and marketing, focusing on Soylent product packaging, manufacturing and distribution. He currently manages Soylent’s beta program whereby iterations of the formula, packaging and customer experience are reviewed by a select group in order to ensure the quality and safety of the product shipped to Soylent customers. Prior to joining Soylent, he served as procurement manager at Capital One before co-founding Level RF with Soylent CEO, Robert Rhinehart. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a Certificate in Finance.
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About Rosa Labs: Rosa Labs strives to create innovative nutritional products.
Richard Lin
CEO & Co Founder of Ombre
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About Ombre: Ombre is a provider of a microbiome testing kit designed to incorporate personalized probiotics and microbiome testing.
Jun Kim
CSO & Co Founder of Ombre
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About Ombre: Ombre is a provider of a microbiome testing kit designed to incorporate personalized probiotics and microbiome testing.
Iryna Korolenko
Founder and CEO of iSALON Beauty App
The founder of iSALON, a businesswoman and entrepreneur, fashion model and world-traveler, Iryna Korolenko is a portrait of the modern Renaissance woman. Born in Ukraine, she balanced passion and professionalism, ambition and sophistication from an early age, modeling internationally by 16 while prioritizing higher education. After receiving postgraduate degrees both in international economy and psychology, Iryna began a career working for global corporations, negotiating multi-million dollar contracts. By seamlessly navigating between the worlds of business and beauty, from airline to fashion runways, she has gained a worldview unique among her peers. Seeking new opportunities, Iryna packed a single suitcase and moved to the United States in 2014. Despite having no support network, she paved her way in an unfamiliar environment, and continues to trailblaze her singular career workingwith prominent designers and global brands both as a model and businesswoman. In boardrooms and at photo shoots, presentation matters, but it doesn’t have to be inconvenient. It was during a commute in traffic that Iryna realized it was smarter, safer, and simpler to have beauty services delivered directly to her door. Any modern professional will recognize the importance of quickly connecting with services wherever they are, whenever they are – and with iSALON, you can. Iryna is based in California but continues to pursue her passion exploring new places and meeting new people, always looking forward to new challenges and discovering innovative ideas. A consummate Capricorn, culinary dilettante, and classic cinema enthusiast, she most appreciates the simple things in life, especially her French bulldog, Blu.
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About Coleman Research, Fohr, GLG, iSALON Beauty App, Kelly Moore Paints, Look Model Agency, RED HOT MONDE: Delivering Beauty to Your Doorstep
Katherine Krug
Founder / CEO of BetterBack
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About BetterBack: Make every chair ergonomic! Use BetterBack for 15 mins a day to improve your posture, ease back pain and improve your health.
Fred Helou
Founder & CEO of Vagaro
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About Vagaro: Vagaro is an online platform that allows its users to find salons and spas in their local area and make appointments online.
Zak Holdsworth
Co-Founder & CEO of Hint Health
Zak Holdsworth is the Co-founder & CEO at Hint Health.
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About Hint Health: Hint Health fixes healthcare system by fundamentally restructuring the way that care is delivered.
Brian Ha
Co Founder/Operations/Business Dev. of Vitagene
Founder at Vitagene
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About Vitagene: The world’s First and Only Personalization Platform for Health and Wellness Products and Services Tailored to Your DNA and Lifestyle.
Reza Malek
Founder & CMO of Vitagene
Former Chief Medical Officer at Genophen, Neuro-Interventional Radiologist, Interventional Radiologist, President of Minimally Invasive Surgical Solutions.
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About Vitagene: The world’s First and Only Personalization Platform for Health and Wellness Products and Services Tailored to Your DNA and Lifestyle.
Mory Gharib
Co-Founder of Glaukos
Mory Gharib is a co-founder of [Glaukos](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/glaukos#/entity), a glaucoma treatment company that develops micro-bypass therapies to moderate the intraocular pressures. Gharib holds more than 25 U.S. patents in areas of biomedical devices and imaging technology. His research areas include diverse topics and technologies such as bio-inspired design and engineering, imaging, cardiovascular research, wind and sea, energy, carbon nanotubes, and nano-scale mechanics. Gharib received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Tehran University in 1975. He also holds a master’s degree in aerospace and mechanical engineering from Syracuse University.
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About Glaukos: Glaukos is a glaucoma treatment company developing micro-bypass therapies to moderate the intraocular pressures that help preserve vision.
Joshua Archer
Co-Founder of Sutra Fitness
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About Outreach, Sales Hacker, Sutra Fitness: arketa makes it easy for fitness instructors to build an online business.
Anthony Diaz
Founder and CEO of Health Hero
Anthony Diaz is Founder and CEO of Health Hero.
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About Health Hero: Health Hero enables organizations to do smart automated follow up via phone and text messages for patients and employees.
Anna Duckworth
Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer of Miss Grass
Anna Duckworth is a Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer at Miss Grass. She is a former Head of Content at Dosist and Co-Founder/Editor of buckslip.email. Ms. Duckworth graduated from McGill University with a bachelor of arts in Cultural Studies & Art History.
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About Miss Grass: Miss Grass is a modern and elevated online magazine with captivating content and an e-commerce destination for modern cannabis consumers.
Karina Sulzer
Founder of Skin Gym
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About SKIN CAMP, Skin Gym, YOUTH HAUS: Skin Gym is a natural beauty tool brand featuring crystal facial massage rollers in addition to crystal healing products.
Josh Bruno
Co-Founder & CEO of Path
Josh Bruno is the Founder & CEO of Path. Prior to Path, he founded Hometeam when his family struggled to care for his 93-year-old grandfather. He believes that home care should go beyond the basics to provide a safe, reliable, and interactive service that creates happier days for seniors. Prior to Hometeam, Josh worked as an investor, operator, and engineer at companies like Bain Ventures, Bain & Co, and Yahoo. Learn More: www.pathccm.com
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About Path: Path makes it easy to find a world class mental health provider that’s covered by your insurance.
Gabriel Diop
Co-Founder & Head of Partnerships of Path
I enjoy working hard, being scrappy, and bringing people together. Whether it is prospecting clients for a sale or candidates for an all-star team, I enjoy connecting with people on a personal level. Learn More: www.pathccm.com
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About Path: Path makes it easy to find a world class mental health provider that’s covered by your insurance.
Alexi Robichaux
CEO & Co-Founder of BetterUp
Alexi Robichaux is the co-founder and CEO of BetterUp. He founded the company in 2013 with a mission to enable all professionals to live with greater purpose, clarity and passion through one-on-one coaching. Prior to BetterUp, Alexi was the Director or Product Management at VMware and co-founded Youth Leadership America, a non-profit organization that fosters peer-to-peer leadership in high school students.
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About BetterUp: BetterUp develops an AI-driven platform that helps people and businesses grow personally and professionally through coaching.
Noosheen Hashemi
Founder & CEO of January
Noosheen Hashemi is the Founder & CEO, January.ai.
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About Council on Foreign Relations, Hand Capital, January, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, The HAND Foundation, The HAND Foundation: January is a mobile app that combines AI with science to provide personalized health insights and recommendations.
Padmasree Warrior
Founder, President, & CEO of Fable
Padmasree Warrior is the Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer at Fable. She is also the Chief Executive Officer of NextEV, U.S. She also serves as the Chief Development Officer of NextEV, as well as a member of its Board of Directors. In these capacities, she is responsible for the brains of NextEV’s autonomous, electric vehicles and the overall user experience. She is based in San Jose, CA where NextEV US is headquartered. Previously, Warrior served as the Chief Technology & Strategy Officer (CTSO) for Cisco until September 2015. In this capacity she was charged with aligning the company’s technology and business strategy to business results. She was in charge of corporate strategy, mergers, acquisitions, venture investments, and strategic partnerships. Previous to that she was the GM for Cisco Enterprise segment and co-led Cisco’s worldwide engineering organization. Prior to joining Cisco, she was executive vice president and CTO at Motorola. Under her leadership, Motorola was awarded the 2004 U.S. National Medal of Technology. Padmasree Warrior has been widely recognized for her creative, visionary leadership. Forbes has named her one of “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” for three years running. In 2013, The International Alliance for Women gave her the World of Difference Award. In 2012, Business Insider called her one of the “25 Most Influential Women in Wireless”. The Aspen Institute gave her the first Leadership in Science and Technology Award. India’s National Association of Software & Service Companies (NASSCOM) named her the Global CTO Award winner. The Wall Street Journal has called her one of “50 Women to Watch.” Fast Company included her among the “100 Most Creative People in Business.” The Economic Times listed her as “the 11th Most Influential Global Indian.” Warrior holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi and a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University. In addition to NextEV’s board, Warrior serves on the board of Microsoft. She previously served on the board of Gap and Box.
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About Fable: Fable provides a platform for online book clubs.
Henry Lippincott
Founder of // PROCRASTINAUTS
Henry Lippincott is Founder at //PROCRASTINAUTS
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About // PROCRASTINAUTS, Chubbies Shorts, JP Morgan, VoteBox: Time-management tool for the modern-day procrastinator
Ijaz Anwar
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Payactiv
Ijaz Anwar brings extensive experience with previous tenure at GreenDot / GoBank, Unidos Financial Services, FIS, Certegy, Chex Services, and Hyatt Hotels. From running business units generating over $200 million in annual revenue to working as a bookkeeper at Dixi Cola in Dubai, Ijaz has done it. Payactiv is not just another job; it is a new frontier for Ijaz to create and manage innovative solutions that will empower millions financially worldwide. Ijaz holds a Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management. He also has a minor in accounting, and though he passed the CPA exam, his entrepreneurial spirit led him away from the accounting field.
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About Payactiv: Payactiv helps put financial wellness within reach.
Tom Chokel
Co-Founder & CTO of Modern Fertility
Tom Chokel is a Co-Founder at Modern Fertility.
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About Modern Fertility: Modern Fertility is a women’s health company closing the fertility information gap by letting women test key fertility hormones at home.
Carly Leahy
Co-Founder and CCO of Modern Fertility
Carly Leahy is Co-founder and CCO at Modern Fertility.
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About Modern Fertility: Modern Fertility is a women’s health company closing the fertility information gap by letting women test key fertility hormones at home.
Alex Katz
Founder and CEO of Two Chairs
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About Two Chairs: Two Chairs provides high-quality, in-person psychotherapy at thoughtfully-designed clinics.
Greg Rovner
Co-Founder and CEO of Heally
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About Heally: Heally is an online health and wellness brand that helps patients connect with doctors on the industry’s telehealth platform.
Lina Kravetskiy
Chief Operating Officer and Founder of Heally
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About Heally: Heally is an online health and wellness brand that helps patients connect with doctors on the industry’s telehealth platform.
Alexi Suvacioglu
Co-Founder & CEO of Because Market
Alexi Suvacioglu focuses on product and customer acquisition, perfecting the art of CAC vs LTV. Prior to ZenDeals, Alexi cofounded and sold a VC-funded ecommerce business, was a Senior Manager of Internet Marketing at eBay, and spent 6 years doing technology consulting at Accenture in its Consumer practice. Alexi holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA from Kings College London (Honors).
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About Because Market: Because is personal care direct-to-consumer company focused on meeting the needs of older adults.
Max Coleman
Founder & CEO of Heal.me
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About Heal.me: Heal.me is a marketplace and booking platform that focuses on wellness practitioners.
Steven Yu
Founder & CEO of StandDesk
Steven Yu is the founder and lead product developer for StandDesk, Inc., a innovative company poised to change the way people stay healthy, happy, and productive. From a very young age, Steven and his father (mechanical engineer) have designed, maintained, and repaired complicated machinery, like automative engines and transmissions. Although he received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, he later applied his engineering talents during his International Masters Program in Beijing. Steven took on a project to develop the most affordable electric powered actuating system. Armed with his childhood mechanical engineering skills and married with his unique business flare, Steven completed the project in record time and now is poised to provide an affordable sit-to-stand desk solutions to the world.
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About StandDesk: A Wellness Company That Makes Awesome Standing Desks
Andrea Barrica
Founder & CEO of O.School
Andrea Barrica is the Founder & CEO at O.school.
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About Deep Connection Technologies, O.School, SexTech Revolution, SexTech Revolution: O.school is building a shame-free space by offering pleasure education through live streaming and moderated chat.
Helene Guillaume
Founder & CEO of WILD.AI
“|| Live Extremes || WILD.AI enables women to reach their race objective with our app-based AI coach. Cycle after cycle, we help you understand your body, what you feel means, what works best for you, and finally optimise the decisions you take for your body to reach your peak performance. Until now, female athletes have relied on training protocols, injury guidelines and nutrition plans based on research conducted with men – limiting females to reach their full potential, as they struggle to take advantage of their natural cycles. Periods are the last taboo in sports, we are breaking it. We are operating in a widely untapped and underserved $10bn market, at the crossway of fitness and female tracking. We are starting with a laser focus on the 1.5mn US female triathletes. From this initial engaged and quantified-self pool, we’ll be able to help a wider female population with a specific challenge to tackle (including IBS, fertility) applying our learnings and research. Our team of AI Ph.D and athletes (100km ultra-marathons, triathlons, ice swimming) is redefining the future of female health. == I love extremes – in every sense of the word – I’m an avid endurance racer, having done 100km Ultra Trails, half ironman, ice swimmer and cross-continental swimmer. I am is also the co-founder of PeakAI.org, a community of AI researchers and Founders and I’m a very active humanist, helping men reach equality.”
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About Entrepreneur First, WILD.AI: WILD.AI is building a knowledge base of female datasets, across all ages, life stages, and ethnicity.
Crina Okumus
Co-Founder of Baze
Crina began her career as a model at the age of 15 before moving on to working in television and politics. She’s the founder of the fashion brand MAIOCCI which she has run for the past 9 years. She wants to be a role model for her daughter and believes that everything starts with basic everyday choices.
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About Baze: Baze are enable every person to achieve their best health through a science-led, results-driven food and supplement platform.
Eric Wu
Co-Founder and COO of Gainful
Eric Wu is the co-founder and COO of Gainful.
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About Gainful: Gainful is a personalized sports nutrition company that offers subscriptions to its Hydration line of electrolyte drink mixes.
Jason Fan
Co-Founder and CEO of Twic
Jason Fan is the Co-Founder and CEO at Twic.
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About Twic: Forma is a modern-day benefits platform that gives employees the freedom to choose health and wellness options that are right for them.
Emmanuel Bamfo
CEO and Co-Founder of Globe
Emmanuel Bamfo is a Co-founder at Globe.
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About Globe, Recharge Labs: Globe provides a real estate platform that allows people to live more comfortably.
Eric Xu
Co-Founder and CTO of Globe
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About Globe: Globe provides a real estate platform that allows people to live more comfortably.
Lubna Ahmad
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Invoy
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About Invoy: Invoy provides personalized, predictive nutrition solutions to help individuals meet their health & wellness goals.
Yunha Kim
Founder & CEO of Simple Habit
Simple Habit was founded by Yunha Kim in Spring 2016.A former investment banker on Wall Street, Yunha quit her job to build her first startup, raising over $3M from prominent investors. Yunha was desperate to manage the extreme stress of her startup, so, she turned to meditation. She began to meditate a few minutes a day and saw dramatic improvements in the quality of her work, relationships and life. She decided to build Simple Habit to help busy people, like herself, experience the benefits mindfulness.
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About Simple Habit: Simple Habit is a meditation app designed to drive a healthy lifestyle.
Joseph Terzi
CEO & Co-Founder of Priv
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About Priv: PRIV is a mobile and web platform where clients can book vetted beauty and wellness professionals to their location.
Noah Kraft
CEO and Co-Founder of Ginger Health Company
Noah Kraft is the CEO and Co-founder at Ginger Health Company.
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About Ginger Health Company: Ginger Health Company provides solutions for digestive health and offers product options, education, and guidance for consumers.
