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This list showcases the top California based Founder operating in the Fitness 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.
James Park
CEO and Co-Founder of Fitbit
James is our Co-founder and has served as our Chairman since May 2015, as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and as our President and CEO since September 2007. Previously, James served as a Director of Product Development at CNET Networks, as the President and a Co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, Inc. (an online photo-sharing company acquired by CNET Networks in April 2005). He was also CTO and Co-Founder of Epesi Technologies, Inc., a software company. James attended Harvard College where he studied Computer Science. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder, President, and CEO.
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About Fitbit: Fitbit offers compact, wireless, wearable sensors that track a person’s daily activities in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.
Eric Friedman
Co-Founder & CTO of Fitbit
Eric is our Co-Founder and has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and most recently as our CTO. Previously, Eric served as an Engineer Manager at CNET Networks, as a Co-Founder of Wind-Up Labs, a founding engineer of Epesi Technologies, and a technical member of the Real-Time Collaboration Group at Microsoft Corporation. Eric holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Yale University. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder and CTO.
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About Fitbit: Fitbit offers compact, wireless, wearable sensors that track a person’s daily activities in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.
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.
Allen Chen
CEO & Co-Founder of Fitbod
Allen is the Co-founder & CEO of Fitbod.
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About Fitbod: Fitbod allows users to maximize the use of indoor gym equipment and confidence to train effectively for strength.
Jesse Venticinque
Co-Founder, Product Head of Fitbod
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About Fitbod: Fitbod allows users to maximize the use of indoor gym equipment and confidence to train effectively for strength.
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.
Kevin Wall
Founder and CEO of PTK Capital
Kevin Wall is an American media entrepreneur, global event producer, investor and activist. He is the CEO and founder of the investment fund PTK Capital, the co-founder and co-chairman of Dreamscape Immersive, a location-based virtual reality start up, and the founder and CEO of Control Room, a Los Angeles-based production company. The first person to receive an Emmy Award for interactive content, Wall is noted for his role in the development and adoption of media technologies including online and multi-platform distribution and media practices such as international rights acquisition and licensing.
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About Control Room, Craton Equity Partners, Dreamscape Immersive, Live Earth, PTK Capital, Sustainable Holdings: PTK Capital invests in businesses that benefit the human condition in the areas of Entertainment, Wellness and their intersection.
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.
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.
Chris Milk
Co-Founder, CEO and COO of Supernatural
Chris Milk is the Co-Founder, CEO, and COO of Supernatural. He is an artist, director, and technologist.He is the founder and CEO of [Vrse](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vrse#/entity). Milk has gained recognition as a music video director, working with Arcade Fire, U2, Kanye West, Green Day, Johnny Cash, Gnarls Barkley, Chemical Brothers, John Mellencamp, Courtney Love, and Modest Mouse. He has been honored with the top industry awards for his music video and commercial work, including the Grand Prix Cannes Lion, the D&AD Black Pencil, the Grand Clio, and SXSW’s ’Best of Show’, as well as multiple Grammy nominations, MTV Moon Men, and the UK’s MVA Innovation Award. Milk’s short film, Last Day Dream, played at film festivals around the world, and he directed the second unit of A Mother’s Promise, the film that introduced Barack Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards recognized his work in design and art in 2011. The Wilderness Downtown was named as one of TIME Magazine’s 30 Best Music Videos of all time, and was exhibited at MoMA in NY for 6 months in 2011. Milk builds multiple projects with Virtual Reality as the canvas. The collaboration with Beck called “Sound & Vision” has been exhibited in an Oculus Rift at the Future of Storytelling Summit, Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, and Tribeca Film Festival. Chris Milk was born in New York.
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About Here Be Dragons, Supernatural, Within (VR/AR): Supernatural is an immersive, virtual reality fitness experience that combines music, coaches, destinations, and movements.
Patrick Chandler
Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of FightCamp
Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer. Currently running the FightCamp marketing team, deep knowledge in Paid Social (Facebook, Instagram), Content Marketing (Youtube, SEO), Website Optimization (CRO), Email marketing, TV advertising and Influencer marketing. Also created the attribution modeling framework and the data analysis system we use. On the technical side, was previously Chief Data Scientist and have experience in Machine Learning, IMU sensors, kinematics / 3D motion tracking, startups and data science.
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About FightCamp: FightCamp provides on-demand boxing and HIIT workouts with motion trackers on wrists that track every punch thrown and every rep completed.
Alexandre Marcotte
Co-Founder and CTO of FightCamp
Mr. Marcotte graduated from Sherbrooke University with an Electrical Engineering degree with a major in microelectronics. While launching Hykso with Mr. Zahar, Mr. Marcotte lead his team to the international electric car competition Eco Shell Marathon in Texas, USA. Mr. Marcotte’s team broke the world record for the most economic electric prototype ever built and their car, E-Volve received much attention by the press.
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About FightCamp: FightCamp provides on-demand boxing and HIIT workouts with motion trackers on wrists that track every punch thrown and every rep completed.
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.
Blake Mallen
Co-Founder & President of ViSalus
Blake Mallen is a Billion-Dollar Lifestyle Entrepreneur, CoFounder and President of two global lifestyle brands, TED Speaker, and Creator, who has spent over two decades helping people ‘wake up’ to become who they are ‘meant to’ be. After 19 years of excelling on the traditional path, yet never feeling fully fulfilled, Blake had a wake-up call: He had spent his entire life chasing achievements solely because it was what he was told he was “supposed to” do. Realizing that script would never lead to what he was really “meant to” do, Blake made the leap into entrepreneurship, becoming a self-made Millionaire by age 25 and co-owning a billion-dollar brand by his early 30s. Grateful for his journey, Blake gives back by empowering entrepreneurs and leaders to ‘shift the script’ so they too can find what they’re meant to do, become who they’re meant to be, and feel more alive. Blake builds companies that are aligned with his mission. He is a creator of products, programs, and platforms that have impacted over 3 million people and inspired mainstream movements expanding across 15+ countries. In his early 20s, Blake’s co-founded Vi, a health transformation platform that has generated more than $2 billion in cumulative revenue, was coined the “#1 Weight-Loss and Fitness Challenge in America,” has impacted millions, and is now expanding across Europe and Latin America. Blake also serves as the President of Vi’s sister company, Liv, an experience platform he co-founded to inspire people to trade in the notion of the “Bucket List” for a “Liv List,” by providing the everyday person access to extraordinary curated life experiences. Passionate about helping entrepreneurs create mission-driven movements, Blake takes on investor and advisor roles in select passion projects, and is a partner in HashTagOne, a $20M investment fund that invests in High Growth Seed and Series A companies. A values-driven leader, Blake is married to his high school sweetheart and has daily ‘dad-life’ adventures with his young son, daughter, and their big American Bulldog. From life enthusiast and high adventurer, to health advocate and longtime surfer, to world traveler and family man, Blake actively lives the lifestyle brands he sells. Blake is also a globally recognized influencer, thought leader, conscious living expert, and speaker, who is often profiled in industry publications (Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc., SUCCESS) speaking on the topics of entrepreneurship, personal development and leadership. He has spoken in thousands of live events, to hundreds of thousands of people, and his recent TED Talk: “Shift The Script – Why Your ‘Supposed To’ No Longer Works,” is inspiring a movement to help even more “wake up,” move toward their “meant to,” and feel more ALIVE!
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About Liv Global, ViSalus: ViSalus is a health promoting company that created the Body by Vi 90-Day Challenge.
Nick Sarnicola
Co-Founder & CEO of ViSalus
Nick Sarnicola is a lifestyle entrepreneur, sales leader, business catalyst, master team builder, and philanthropist with more than two decades of experience in building billion-dollar sales teams and transforming aspiring professionals into multi-millionaire entrepreneurs. In corporate and field roles, Nick has developed wildly successful people, products and companies in various industries—from direct sales and technology, to health and fitness, to international events and non-profits. A self-made decamillionaire by age 35, Nick develops people of all different backgrounds on how to maximum their potential. While leading a 100,000+ person sales force, his innovation of leadership systems and strategies produced high-performing teams in 16 countries, creating more than 50 millionaires. Nick is the Co-Founder & CEO of two global lifestyle brands with platforms that power health transformations and inspire people to turn their “Bucket List” into a “Liv List.” Recognized as a purpose-driven Leaders’ Leader, he has built companies from the ground up by investing in its people, leveraging their skillsets, raising up new leaders, and running his businesses as a lifestyle. Nick is able to market anything out of nothing. He’s an entrepreneurial firestarter with an expertise in launches of new brands, platforms, products, marketplaces and global sales leaders. He also specializes in producing stadium-sized events and curating multi-day epic life experiences. A career highlight was architecting an international sales team to pioneer the new vertical of “Challenge Marketing,” which grew his company’s Body by Vi Challenge into a nearly $2 billion-dollar platform. Nick most recently created a new Life Experience category by building a social platform around turning people’s Bucket Lists into Liv Lists—ensuring they don’t take their list to the grave. A charismatic keynote speaker, Nick educates audiences on business growth topics: sales leadership, the science of goal-setting, result-driven strategies, return on time (ROT) methods, and dynamic team building. He speaks all over the world at conferences and events, in pursuit of his personal mission: to educate, develop, contribute to, and entertain millions of people through entrepreneurship, mentorship, speaking and writing. Through mastermind classes and mentorship programs, he guides the world’s most talented, passionate and successful high achievers to their greatest victories. Committed to supporting social causes, Nick is actively involved in his companies’ give-back initiatives, ViCares and Liv2Giv. He founded NextGen, which educates and supports young aspiring entrepreneurs. In 2017, the Muskegon Community College named one of their buildings the Rooks Sarnicola Center for Entrepreneurial studies in honor of Nick’s contributions to entrepreneurial graduates. Ask Nick what he is most proud of, and he’ll tell you it’s raising his daughter and son to become confident leaders who will positively impact this world.
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About Liv Global, ViSalus: ViSalus is a health promoting company that created the Body by Vi 90-Day Challenge.
Leonardo von Prellwitz
CEO and Founder of Eon
Leo has been leading the strategic analysis team within the Smart Grid (IoT/M2M) unit at Cisco since the inception of the business unit three years ago. He has been awarded as one of the top 100 thought leaders in the industry by the leading industry journal in 2012 and is a speaker at conferences worldwide on topics dealing with decentralized energy as well as economics and policy of the electricity industry. Beyond his work in Cisco’s Emerging Technology Group, he has also been actively working as a mentor for start-up funders for the Surge Accelerator, an energy software incubator program based in Houston. Leo is also active in the Online Social Networks (OSN) start-up sphere and is working on projects dealing with the unified social fabric, data mining and semantic analysis. Leo holds a Degree in International Economics and Management from Bocconi University (Milan, Italy) and is a candidate for an MBA at Chicago Booth.
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About Eon: Eon Is a fitness platform that uses robotics, AI and streaming content to provide measurably better exercise in a fraction of the time.
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.
Shane Heath
Founder and CEO of MUD\WTR
He is designer of ishBowl.
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About MUD\WTR: MUD\WTR is a food & beverage company that provides natural organic ingredients for health benefits.
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.
Stephen Smith
Co-Founder & CEO of Kitman Labs
Stephen is co founder of Kitman Labs, the worlds most advanced athlete management platform. Stephen holds a Higher Diploma in Human Physiology and Health Science, a BSc (Hons) in Sports & Exercise Rehabilitation and an MSc in Football Rehabilitation. He worked with Leinster Rugby as a Sports Injury Rehabilitation Coach within the Strength & Conditioning Department between 2008-2014. Stephen founded Kitman Labs in 2012 and now lives in Palo Alto, CA where he focuses on expanding Kitman Labs in elite US sports. His areas of expertise include injury prevention, rehabilitation and analytics and he has a strong interest in the use of technology and emerging trends in sport science to further enhance sport science and medicine.
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About Kitman Labs: Kitman Labs is a sports analytics platform that generates insights to help professional athletes perform better.
Anatoly Tikhman
Co-Founder, President, & CEO of Monclarity
Anatoly Tikhman joined Monclarity as Co-Founder, President, & CEO in 2012.Anatoly has more than 20 years of high-tech industry experience developing and marketing innovative software applications. He is a successful entrepreneur, computer scientist and technology visionary. Anatoly’s ability to forge strategic technology license agreements with companies such as Microsoft has resulted in tens of millions of PCs carrying the technology he developed as a part of Microsoft Windows. Anatoly founded a number of companies, most of which were acquired by public companies such as Microsoft, Quarterdeck, Symantec, L&H, VASCO Data Security and others. Anatoly created cutting-edge, best-selling applications for technologies such as lossless data compression, speech recognition, biometrics, and several others. He is currently the Chairman of TikGames, LLC, which he founded in 2002. He built an industry-leading studio that has delivered a broad range of top quality proprietary and licensed games for numerous platforms. Among some of the highlights are Texas Hold’em Poker for Microsoft Xbox which is one of the most successful games in XBLA’s run, as well as the megahit Cuboid for Sony PlayStation.
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About Monclarity, Playteau, TikGames: Monclarity has assembled a unique interdisciplinary team of scientists and professionals.
Michael Horvath
Co-Founder & CEO of Strava
Michael Horvath is the Co-Founder and CEO of Strava. He earned his degree at Harvard University.
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About Strava: Strava is an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community.
Mark Gainey
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Strava
Mark Gainey is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Strava.
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About AlterG, Strava: Strava is an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community.
Earvin Johnson
Founder & CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises
Earvin “Magic” Johnson has become the most powerful African-American businessman in the world. He is a Major League Baseball owner, an NBA Legend, a 2-Time Hall of Famer, an Entrepreneur, a Philanthropist and a Motivational Speaker. The business mogul has successfully parlayed his skills and tenacity on the court into the business world, propelling his company to the status of #1 Brand in Urban America. He is Chairman and CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises (MJE), which provides high quality products and services that focus primarily on ethnically diverse and underserved urban communities through strategic alliances, investments, consulting and endorsements. The conglomerate is comprised of multiple business entities and partnerships that include Canyon Johnson, a $1 billion dollar real estate fund, Yucaipa Johnson, a $500 million dollar private equity fund, ASPIRE, a new African-American television network, SodexoMAGIC, Magic Airport Holdings, Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, Magic Johnson Bridgescape Academies, and Vibe Holdings, LLC – Johnson is the Chairman of the multi-cultural media company that houses the Vibe, Uptown, and Soul Train brands. Most noted for his unprecedented Starbucks partnership, which served as the catalyst for redevelopment in urban communities and is literally the blueprint for Corporate America’s engagement and success with urban consumers. In 2010, the savvy businessman divested his Starbucks and Los Angeles Lakers shares in excess $100 million dollars. However, he will continue to assist Starbucks with their community development initiatives and will remain Vice President of the Los Angeles Lakers. Johnson has also teamed up with Tim Leiweke of AEG in an effort to build a new stadium and bring an NFL team back to Los Angeles as well as thousands of jobs to the city. The story of Johnson and Larry Bird’s inspiring friendship and rivalry was presented in a theater adaptation of Magic & Bird on Broadway in April 2012. Johnson also serves as Chairman and Founder of the Magic Johnson Foundation, where his unwavering commitment to transform Urban America continues through HIV/AIDS Awareness & Prevention Programs, Community Empowerment Centers, and the Taylor Michaels Scholarship Program. Celebrating over 20 years of success, the Magic Johnson Foundation has become one of the most recognizable philanthropic organizations around the world.
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About JLC Infrastructure, Magic Johnson Enterprises, Magic Johnson Foundation: Magic Johnson Enterprises is a company owned by retired NBA Hall of Fame legend Magic Johnson.
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.
Lorna Borenstein
Founder & CEO of Grokker
Lorna Borenstein is the CEO & Founder ,Author at Grokker.
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About Grokker, Grokker: Netflix for wellbeing with community at its core
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.
Anand Sharma
CEO and Founder of Gyroscope Innovations
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About Gyroscope Innovations: Gyroscope Innovations is a new OS for the human body, with an app and website for people to view their health analytics.
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.
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.
Mike Melby
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of FITLAB
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About ELECTRIC, FITLAB, FITLAB, FITLAB, Mayweather Boxing & Fitness, XPT: FitLab powers experiences that inspire you to move.
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.
Caroline Beckman
Founder and CEO of Nouri Life
Caroline Beckman is a Co-Founder & CEO at Nomva.
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About Nomva, Nouri Life, Suja Life: Nouri is for men and women around the world who believe in increasing their mental and physical health.
Moran Shochat Snir
Co-Founder & CEO of Clear Genetics
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About Clear Genetics, Invitae: Clear Genetics is a digital health company dedicated to the thoughtful integration of genetics into routine patient care.
Guy Snir
Co-Founder & COO of Clear Genetics
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About Clear Genetics, Invitae: Clear Genetics is a digital health company dedicated to the thoughtful integration of genetics into routine patient care.
Bob Messerschmidt
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Cor
Bob’s career spans more than 25 years in the field of instrumentation for spectroscopy. Bob was awarded the Williams-Wright Award in 1996 for outstanding contributions to infrared spectroscopy. He is the author or co-author of 12 articles and book chapters and co-editor of one book on infrared microspectroscopy, he holds 42 issued and pending US patents. He has made numerous conference and seminar presentations in the United States, Europe and Japan, and organized and chaired symposia in infrared spectroscopy. His interests include biomedical applications of spectroscopy, microscopy, Raman spectroscopy and other developing techniques. He is past president of the Coblentz Society, past president of the Rio Grande section of the SAS, a past-president of the Southwestern Connecticut section of the Optical Society of America, and a member of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.
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About Cor: Lifestyle Science™ platform
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.
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.
Ray Bradford
Founder & CEO of Spruce Health
Ray Bradford is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He joined the firm in 2011 and focuses on investments for the firm’s digital practice. Before joining KPCB, Ray worked at Amazon Web Services and helped grow the company’s cloud infrastructure business. He led one of the core product management teams and was responsible for the definition, launch, and business growth of new database services, including Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS), Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon DynamoDB. He is named inventor on multiple patent applications related to scalable data systems, and is excited by the opportunity for big data to drive efficiency gains and innovation in many sectors of the economy. Earlier in his career, Ray spent time at Twitter and Linden Lab (creators of the virtual world Second Life). Ray earned his M.B.A. at Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and completed computer science coursework. Ray holds his B.S. degree in economics from Westminster College, where he graduated summa cum laude and served as student body president.
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About Spruce Health: Spruce thinks of a better way to see the doctor by using their platform for communication.
Eugene Baah
Co-Founder & CEO of Resoltz
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About Resoltz: Video streaming fitness content tailored to your goals, schedule and personal preferences
Dhananja Jayalath
Founder of Athos
University of Waterloo graduate Dhananja (DJ) Jayalath honed his technical breadth from mechanical to electrical to software engineering as he finished his Electrical Engineering degree. After graduating in 2012 and turning down a lucrative position at Apple, DJ started work on a crazy idea he was already working on – that crazy idea is now called Athos! Like many tech pioneers of his generation, DJ started the development of Athos between classes. Because he couldn’t afford a pricey trainer and was frustrated with the hassle of current training technology, he sought to create a product that could quickly answer his all of his training questions. What began as a passion for making smarter better connected prosthetics turned into a revolutionary wearable EMG fitness technology. The research DJ collected for prosthetics innovations paired with his sewing and engineering skills crossed over perfectly as he sought to seamlessly integrate bulky EMG models, previously limited to Olympian and professional athletes, into affordable, weightless training apparel. DJ reengineered lab sized technology and condensed it to the size of a credit card and literally built it into interchangeable garments. Since co-founding Athos in the summer of 2012, DJ has been working on developing the product and driving the vision for a healthier lifestyle through technology.
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About Athos: The Athos mission is to help athletes train more effectively and reach their performance goals faster.
Chris Wiebe
CTO & Co-Founder of Athos
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About Athos: The Athos mission is to help athletes train more effectively and reach their performance goals faster.
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.
Evan Richardson
Founder and CEO of Form Health
Evan founded Form Health with the mission of making modern medical weight loss available for everyone. He was previously part of the founding management team at Grand Rounds, a telemedical concierge and primary care practice that helps patients get access to the highest quality, most appropriate healthcare. Prior to Grand Rounds, Evan was an early employee at Castlight Health, a pioneer in the healthcare price transparency space. Evan is a member of the board of directors at Bicycle Health, the national leader in delivering medication assisted therapy to people with opioid dependency. He received a BA with honors at Dartmouth College, and an MBA with honors from the Harvard Business School.
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About Form Health: Form Health is a telemedical weight loss company that focuses on individuals dealing with obesity.
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.
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.
Thomas Lines
Founder and Director of FRS
Thomas Lines is the founder and director of [FRS](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/frs#/entity), a line of nutritional products that include ready-to-drink beverages, chews, powdered drink mixes, shots, and concentrates. He currently resides in Foster City, California.
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About FRS: FRS offers a line of nutritional products that include ready-to-drink beverages, chews, powdered drink mixes, shots and concentrates.
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.
Mainul I Mondal
Founder & CEO of Ellipsis Health
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About Ellipsis Health: Ellipsis Health develops affective computing for existing patient/care team interactions to create a real-time vital sign.
Ajoy Khandheria
Founder of Gramin Health Care
Ajoy is an Engineer, technology evangelist and a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in building Telecommunications, Telematics, Taxi aggregation and Healthcare businesses. As Managing Partner in GAP Investments Pte Ltd, Ajoy has made strategic investments in a number of successful companies like Paridyam Healthcare & Medical Second Opinion (India), Doc on Call (Myanmar), Avenger (USA), ,Belgium Satellite Services (Belgium), Six Dee Technologies (India), Hello Cabs (Myanmar), Intersat FZE (Dubai), Mobifusion (USA), Infotrack (Bangalore) andCERT Telematics (Abu Dhabi) Under Ajoy’s leadership, companies have witnessed geographical expansion in international markets . Ajoy has also been an advisor to several large corporations such as Harris Corporation, Ital Cable, Tech Mahindra, Tellabs Maxis, UT Starcom, Hughes Software Systems, & IPUnity.
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About Gramin Health Care: Gramin Health Care with a vision to transform healthcare delivery in the under-served markets.
Tiffany Hakimianpour
ceo and Founder of Handstand
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About Handstand: Handstand is a 3,000+ network of your city’s top personal trainers – that come to you.
Ella Mihov
Founder & CEO of Lune
Ella is a product leader at Google Nest focused on growing devices and services distribution through new channels, including multifamily, professional installers, builders, hospitality, and senior living. Previously, Ella was the founder and CEO of Lune (lune.co), a consumer health company that launched a direct-to-consumer nutrition lab test and mobile experience targeting post-baby moms. She previously was a product manager at Google, where she led the development and launch of several moonshot products across U.S. and International markets. Ella also advises on strategy and product.
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About Lune: Lune is a wellness company offering nutritional checkups and products so people can live their best lives.
Eric Dy
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Bloomlife
Eric is co-founder and CEO of Bloomlife, a digital health company designing the future of prenatal care with technology to improve the health of moms and babies. Eric brings a unique perspective on the needs, opportunities, and challenges in emerging healthcare technologies and delivery models informed by multi-disciplinary technical expertise gained through business development in consumer and medical markets. Prior to co-founding Bloomlife, Eric served as senior business development manager at IMEC leading sales and partnership activities in North America. In his 3 years leading sales activities in North America, Eric generated $25M+ in revenue from partnerships covering next gen sequencing, remote patient monitoring, hyper spectral imaging, and mixed signal chip design. Eric earned his BSc in Bioengineering from Cornell and his MSc and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UCLA. He is (co)-author of 14 scientific publication and 9 patents.
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About Bloomlife, Unreasonable: Women’s health company combining clinically validated wearables with data analytics to improve birth outcomes.
Julien Penders
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Bloomlife
Co-Founder & COO at Bloomlife.
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About Bloomlife: Women’s health company combining clinically validated wearables with data analytics to improve birth outcomes.
George Favvas
CEO and Co-Founder of Circle Medical
George Favvas is the CEO of Circle Medical, a Y Combinator-backed startup using technology and AI to deliver better primary care. A serial entrepreneur, George has advised and invested in several startups and taught product management at General Assembly. Born and raised in Montreal, he has lived in San Francisco for the past eight years.
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About Circle Medical, Rewardli: Circle Medical is the doctor’s office that comes to you, paid for by your insurance.
Al Lieb
Co-Founder of Gixo
Al Lieb joined Gixo as Co-Founder in 2016.
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About CreatorPlus, Gixo, SFR3 Fund: Gixo develops a mobile application that offers online fitness classes from professional coaches.
Brent Franson
Founder and CEO of Most Days
As CEO of Euclid, Brent is passionate about leading a diverse and growing team to change the way retailers engage with customers, through using data-backed, privacy-friendly insights to more effectively compete in a post-mobile, post-Amazon world. Brent was named a LinkedIn Top Voice in 2017 for retail, and regularly contributes to Forbes, LinkedIn, Inc, Entrepreneur, and various retail industry publications. Brent helped found Reputation.com, which remains the world’s leading provider of online reputation products and services with several hundred employees. During his tenure, he played a pivotal leadership role in growing the company’s customer base to over a million customers across more than 100 countries – and its revenue from zero to many tens of millions of dollars (precise financials not publicly disclosed). Reputation.com is backed by Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer, and August Capital, and was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. A serial entrepreneur, Brent’s interest in entrepreneurial endeavors began in middle school and, at 19, went on to found a full-service international search technology agency that’s still in operation today with offices in Philadelphia, Denver, Mountain View, and Bangalore. In his current role, he enjoys applying a creative entrepreneurial lens to solving retail’s most complex challenges. Brent is a husband, father, and an athlete who enjoys long-distance running, skydiving, and anything that involves pushing his own boundaries.
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About Most Days: Most Days is a subscription-based life improvement platform for mental, physical, and emotional wellness.
Brent Franson
Founder and CEO of Most Days
As CEO of Euclid, Brent is passionate about leading a diverse and growing team to change the way retailers engage with customers, through using data-backed, privacy-friendly insights to more effectively compete in a post-mobile, post-Amazon world. Brent was named a LinkedIn Top Voice in 2017 for retail, and regularly contributes to Forbes, LinkedIn, Inc, Entrepreneur, and various retail industry publications. Brent helped found Reputation.com, which remains the world’s leading provider of online reputation products and services with several hundred employees. During his tenure, he played a pivotal leadership role in growing the company’s customer base to over a million customers across more than 100 countries – and its revenue from zero to many tens of millions of dollars (precise financials not publicly disclosed). Reputation.com is backed by Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer, and August Capital, and was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. A serial entrepreneur, Brent’s interest in entrepreneurial endeavors began in middle school and, at 19, went on to found a full-service international search technology agency that’s still in operation today with offices in Philadelphia, Denver, Mountain View, and Bangalore. In his current role, he enjoys applying a creative entrepreneurial lens to solving retail’s most complex challenges. Brent is a husband, father, and an athlete who enjoys long-distance running, skydiving, and anything that involves pushing his own boundaries.
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About Most Days: Most Days is a subscription-based life improvement platform for mental, physical, and emotional wellness.
Dan Rubinstein
CEO & Co-Founder of Physera
Entrepreneurial manager and leader with a “can-do” attitude to insurmountable problems. Launched and built a technology heavy company: raised over $58M; grew to 60+ employees; acquired by a Fortune 500 company. Strong software and data analytics engineering background. Product & engineering management at Google & Facebook. Best fit a leadership role in an international technology company where my contributions can directly impact product development and revenues.
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About Advise.me, Physera: Physera is a musculoskeletal care company that delivers interventions digitally and via telehealth.
Anthony Ortiz
Founder & CEO of Fitly
Anthony Ortiz, Founder and CEO at Fitly. Fitly is the creator of SmartPlate, is a two-time Digital Health award winner, University City Science Center-backed and DreamIt Health alumni, with a proven track record for vetted, technological innovation. SmartPlate is the world’s first intelligent plate that instantly tracks and analyzes everything you eat, so you never have to track meals manually again.
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About Fitly: Fitly is the creator of SmartPlate, the world’s only intelligent nutrition platform.
Guy Pistone
Founder & CEO of Fitivity
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About Elete, Fitivity, Playbook: Collection of over 400 sports/fitness mobile workout apps.
Harrison Valner
Co-Founder & COO of Kyoku
Harrison Valner is the Co-Founder and COO at Kyoku.
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About Kyoku: Kyoku is a foodtech brand that makes personalized nutrition for endurance athletes.
Ryan Roddy
Founder and CEO of Kyoku
Ryan Roddy is the Founder and CEO of Kyoku.
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About Kyoku: Kyoku is a foodtech brand that makes personalized nutrition for endurance athletes.
Raghu Rai
Founder & CEO of Jio Health
Raghu Rai is the founder and CEO of Jio Health.
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About Jio Health: Jio Health tracks vitals, manages medications, and connects with providers and caregivers in meaningful ways.
David Yadegar
Co-Founder of Origin
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About Maybrook Capital Partners, Origin: Origin provides physical therapy designed for women & mothers offering expert care for common female health issues, on-line and in-person.
April Gargiulo
Founder and CEO of Vintner’s Daughter
Founder April Gargiulo created Vintner’s Daughter with a singular goal in mind: to create the very finest, most performance-driven nutritional skincare in the world. She had struggled with her skin all her life and, after not finding any natural, active, or safe solutions, she set out to create her own dream product. Seeking inspiration from her background in fine winemaking, Gargiulo knew that nutrient-rich, high-quality ingredients and time-honored formulation were crucial to creating remarkable products — whether it be a bottle of Cabernet or a bottle of skincare. With this unique perspective, she spent two years researching, testing, and adhering to a meticulous formulation process. Active Botanical Serum was the first product to be born out of these extreme principles of efficacy and quality in 2014 and has joyfully become an award-winning, beloved product around the world. In 2019, Vintner’s Daughter launched the highly anticipated Active Treatment Essence as the next step in their evolution of nutritional skincare.
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About Vintner’s Daughter: Vintner’s Daughter Active Treatment Essence & Active Botanical Serum are infused with the most active, organic, and wildcrafted botanicals.
Felicity Yost
Co-Founder & COO of Tia
Felicity Yost is a Co-Founder and COO at Tia.
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About Tia: At Tia, we believe that the healthcare system was not built with women in mind.
Bill Banta
Co-Founder & CEO of CENTR Camera
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About CENTR Camera: Panoramic video camera that fits in the palm of your hand.
Veronica Lee
Founder & CEO of Remrise
Veronica Lee is the Founder & CEO at Remrise.
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About Midas League, Remrise: Remrise is a health, wellness, and fitness company that offers a personalizes plant-powered sleep formulas.
Cory Brightwell
Co-Founder & CEO of Chuze Fitness
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About Chuze Fitness: Less attitude, more fitness. That’s the Chuze Fitness way! Come check out one of our fitness centers in San Diego, Orange County or Tucson!
Dorian Ayres
CEO & Founder of DYLN Inspired
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About DYLN Inspired: Creating purposeful products for life enthusiasts
Sukemasa Kabayama
CEO and Co-Founder of Uplift Labs
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About Uplift Labs: Uplift Labs digitizes human movement to improve athletic performance while mitigating injuries for in-person and live remote training.
Jonathan Wills
CTO and Co-Founder of Uplift Labs
CEO, Co-Founder of Lumific.
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About Lumific, Uplift Labs: Uplift Labs digitizes human movement to improve athletic performance while mitigating injuries for in-person and live remote training.
Nathan Ramasarma
Founder & CEO of formsense
Tech. entrepreneur & storyteller.
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About ArcSecond, Inc., formsense: formsense reduces injuries, maximizes performance and accelerates recovery for professional sports teams and their athletes.
Connor Young
Founder & CEO of Ample Foods
Connor Young is the Founder & CEO at Ample Foods.
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About Ample Foods: Ample Foods creates optimally nutritious meal replacements for busy, health-conscious people.
Peter Kuhar
CTO & Founder of Azumio
Peter co-founded Azumio after his first app, Instant Heart Rate, hit the top charts. Now he’s working on new technologies. Before Azumio he worked on low power wireless mesh networks and voice noise reduction.
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About Azumio: Azumio is a venture-backed company that develops a suite of fitness apps for smartphones.
Bojan Bostjancic
Founder & CEO of Azumio
Bojan Bostjancic is the founder and CEO of Azumio.
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About Azumio: Azumio is a venture-backed company that develops a suite of fitness apps for smartphones.
Justin Hai
Co-Founder of Alastin Skincare
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About Alastin Skincare, Krav Maga Worldwide, Rebalance Health, Inc.: Alastin Skincare develops innovative and clinically-validated skincare products.
Scott Glenn
Founder of Alastin Skincare
Glenn has founded over twenty successful biotech companies, and has over twenty-five years of experience as Chairman/CEO and founder of Quidel, Prometheus Labs, DexCom, Santarus, Kanisa, Exagen Diagnostics and Alastin Skincare. Mr. Glenn is also founder of SpineWave Zogenix, Cadence Pharmaceuticals, NovaCardia, Conception Technologies and Somaxon. Previously Mr. Glenn also held various management positions, including Division General Manager with Allergan, Inc.
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About Alastin Skincare, Quidel: Alastin Skincare develops innovative and clinically-validated skincare products.
Christian Stiller
Founder & CEO of Brightmind
Christian graduated from Champlain College in 2011 before going to work for Keurig Green Mountain as the Marketing Manager for Los Angeles. Passionate to share the benefits of mindfulness meditation, Christian went on to found Brightmind Meditation LLC, which is developing an iPhone app featuring the meditation system of Shinzen Young.
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About Brightmind: Brightmind helps you quickly move beyond the beginner level of meditation practice through customized and practical instruction.
Gana Pemmanda
Founder / CEO of Resiliens
Gana is the founder and CEO of Resiliens Inc., an Evidence-Based Behavioral Health Platform. Gana has a keen interest in building products for social good withe particular focus in the Healthcare sector. An avid runner, he has run all world marathon majors in a single year.
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About Resiliens: Evidence-Based Behavioral Health Platform
Varun Arora
Founder Director of OpenCurriculum
Varun Arora is a Mountain View, CA based social entrepreneur in K-12 education. He holds a Bachelors in Information Systems and a consequent Masters in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University. Varun was among the first 10 social entrepreneurs in the Americas to be titled a Google Zeitgeist Young Mind, and later an ITU Young Innovator.
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About OpenCurriculum: Helping K-12 teachers and school administrators build awesome curriculum.
Dan Miller
Founder and CEO of Spora Health
Dan Miller is the Founder and CEO of Spora Health.
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About Spora Health: Spora Health is a primary care provider designed for people of color.
Ryan Howard
Founder, CEO, & Chairman of 100Plus
Ryan is the founder, chairman and CEO of Practice Fusion. He founded the company in 2005 and has grown it into the largest physician-patient community in the US. Serving over 80 million patients, the platform connects doctors, pharmacies, labs, and imaging centers to solve healthcare’s biggest challenges. Under Ryan’s leadership, the company has raised $150 million in capital from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Orbimed Advisors, Deerfield Management Company, Artis Ventures, Founders Fund, Felicis Ventures and Band of Angels to fuel its rapid growth. Ryan has spoken on health technology and innovation at Microsoft, Stanford, UC Berkeley, HIMSS, SDForum and Commonwealth Club events and has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Wired as an innovative leader in the sector. He has been recognized as one of the Top 40 under 40 by the San Francisco Business Times, Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider and was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
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About 100Plus: 100Plus is the fastest-growing Remote Patient Monitoring Platform for doctors to manage their chronic patients to avoid episodic care.
Greg Alterman
Co-Founder & Chairman of Juice Served Here
A serial entrepreneur, Greg founded his first company, Alternative Apparel, straight out of college, right out of the trunk of his car. Alternative has grown from those humble roots into a 75 million dollar brand with international locations spanning from Toronto to Tokyo, garnering constant press and a cult like celebrity following. His passion for health made his next business a natural next step. Inspired by his inability to sit back and watch the nutrition desert take over our food landscape, he had to do something. With that passion in mind, he and partner, Alex Matthews, co-founded Juice Served Here™.
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About Juice Served Here: Juice Served Here is a beverage company that offers cold-pressed juice.
James Sha
Co-Founder & CTO of Onyx
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About cure.fit, Onyx: We’re building the future of fitness.
Matthew DiPietro
Founder and CEO of Salut
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About Salut: Salut is an application that provides information, workout videos and connecting its users with trainers for fitness solutions.
Long Nguyen
Co-Founder of Everfit
Long specializes in product and operations. During college, he built a mobile platform for his university, which was acquired by the time of his graduation. He also founded Lexnology, a MVP builder and growth services provider for U.S. startups with a team in Vietnam.
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About Everfit: Enable personal trainers rapidly build, deliver, and monitor training programs to increase client retention, engagement, and acquisition
Joe Kiani
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Cercacor
Joe Kiani joined Masimo as Founder, Chairman & CEO in 1990. Joe Kiani runs one of the world’s most admired medical technology companies, is an inventor of world-changing noninvasive patient monitoring devices, a trusted voice for patient safety and care, and a convention-breaking maverick. As the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Masimo Corporation, a global medical technology innovator credited with revolutionizing pulse oximetry and noninvasive patient monitoring, Mr. Kiani has been a beacon for patient safety and innovation in healthcare for more than 20 years. Convinced that the use of adaptive signal processing could solve the problems of motion artifact and signal noise that plagued pulse oximetry—widely recognized as the 5th vital sign—he founded Masimo in 1989 to improve the accuracy of noninvasive patient monitoring.
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About Cercacor, Masimo, Patient Safety Movement: Cercacor, innovator of non-invasive, easy-to-use monitoring technologies, is proud to introduce Ember.
Kevin Peake
Co-Founder and President of Next Health
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About Next Health: Next Health is a next generation health & wellness center that is a fusion between traditional & alternative medicine.
Darshan Shah
CEO, Founder and Medical Director of Next Health
Darshan Shah is a health and wellness specialist, well known surgeon, published author, tech entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of NEXT|HEALTH®. As an expert on all body systems, he has performed over 10,000 surgical procedures in his 15 years of experience, including trauma surgery, general surgery and plastic/reconstructive procedures. He is a graduate of Mayo Clinic, Harvard Business School and Singularity University. As a health and wellness specialist, he has advised thousands of patients on how to optimize their well-being and extend their lifespan, culminating in the creation of NEXT|HEALTH®, the “Apple Store” of Health and Wellness offering health-span and lifespan extending technology and treatments in a beautiful, welcoming environment.
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About Next Health: Next Health is a next generation health & wellness center that is a fusion between traditional & alternative medicine.
Jay Faires
Founder of The Wellness Agency
Faires is founder of Band of Outsiders – a tv production company developing a slate of non scripted shows built around music and “smart” tv. The Band of Outsiders thesis is driven by the opportunity to use the platform of tv globally to drive licensing and brand sponsorship thereby altering back end IP ownership structures. Throughout his career, he has built and nurtured close relationships with entrepreneurs and talent across a wide spectrum of entertainment while bridging the world to high net worth individuals, family offices, strategics, equity funds and senior bank lenders. Through JFE, Faires actively invests and serves on boards / advises in wellness, music, fashion, action sports and ad tech backing great entrepreneurs including Mind Body Green, Seed & Spark, Go Flow, Hone, Averti and Permission. He works closely with numerous non-profit / NGO’s he is passionate about serving as an adviser or board member for My Friend’s Place, 4th Estate, 15X15, Women @ the Frontier and Invisible Children. Faires previously founded Mammoth – an independent record label, publishing and lifestyle marketing company. Mammoth sold to the Walt Disney Company for a 65x return on capital and he then built his music publishing company, BNY, which sold to Lionsgate. While there as President of Music, his team doubled the value of the publishing asset while they worked closely with many of the biggest names in music for their slate of tv and film. He has held senior executive positions at Lionsgate, Disney and Warners. Faires received his BA with Honors from The University of the South and his MBA from Duke.
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About Band of Outsiders, The Wellness Agency: Agency
