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This list showcases the top California based CEO’ operating in the Wellness space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Varsha Rao
Chief Executive Officer of Nurx
Varsha Rao is the CEO of Nurx, which is revolutionizing healthcare by home-delivering prescriptions, medication, and screening tests. She is a Board Member at ViaSat Inc., and the former COO of Clover Health, a health insurance startup developing an innovative platform that collects and analyzes long-term medical data to improve the health management and wellbeing of its clients. Varsha previously served as Head of Global Operations at Airbnb, where she was responsible for managing 16 offices across the globe and leading the company’s customer service and trust and safety teams in Oregon, Portland, Singapore, Dublin and San Francisco. Under her leadership, the company’s operations in Asia expanded, with many new hosts and visitors joining the Airbnb family. However, her entrepreneurial journey began much earlier, in 1998 when she founded Eve.com together with Mariam Naficy. Eve.com quickly became the leading e-commerce retailer for beauty and accessories. Within two years the company grew to 125 employees. Eve.com was sold to Idealab in early 2000 for $110M. In 1999, Fortune Magazine named the company as the 6th Best e-commerce site. Between founding Eve.com and landing at Airbnb, Rao has held a variety of senior roles. She was appointed VP, Category Marketing at Keen/Ingenio (acquired by AT&T) in 2001 and managed P&L for new and emerging major categories. In 2004-2008, she was VP, General Manager for OldNavy.com, the online division of Gap, Inc., where she led the company’s product development, marketing and merchandising efforts, resulting in a 60% increase in revenues. Rao went on to join SingTel as CEO, Digital Media in 2008 and led the team to launch its local search & reviews business inSing.com. After 3 years at SingTel she left to become Senior Vice President, International for LivingSocial where she was the first LivingSocial employee in Asia. As Senior VP, Rao managed more than 2,000 employees in the company’s network of offices in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and Europe. Varsha is a Sequoia Capital Scout, and a mentor for the KStart Catalyst, an incubator and seed investment program for early stage startups in India. She herself has also invested in several startups in various fields including e-commerce, finance and renewable energy. In 2014, she was named by San Francisco Business Times as one of the ‘Most Influential Business Women’ in the Bay Area and in 2016 she featured in The Boardlist’s top 20 list of women every Silicon Valley tech company should be adding to their board. Rao received her BS/BA in Economics/Math from the University of Pennsylvania. For two years following graduation, she worked at the Wasserstein Perella financial consulting firm, where she advised clients on private and public investment strategies. She then returned to school to obtain an MBA from Harvard Business School. As a strong believer in the power of education she contributes to a variety of educational initiatives for underprivileged children and youth. Among them Breakthrough, a program that works to motivate and empower K12 students to continue to higher education and excel academically and professionally.
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About Nurx: Nurx is a digital healthcare company offering 10 services across reproductive health, at-home testing, dermatology, migraine care, and more.
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
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.
Richard Pierson
Co-Founder and CEO of Headspace
Richard Pierson is a Co-Founder and CEO at Headspace Inc. He is a former Head of Business Development at Bartle Bogle Hegarty and Graduate Trainee and Account Manager at McCann London. Mr. Pierson studied Media and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University.
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About Headspace: Headspace is a digital health platform that provides guided meditation sessions and mindfulness training.
Russell Glass
Chief Executive Officer of Headspace
Russ is a serial technology entrepreneur and author, having founded or held senior positions at four venture-backed technology companies and authoring The Big Data-Driven Business. He sold his last company, Bizo, to LinkedIn where he ran the Marketing Solutions products group, driving more than 2x growth to over $800 million in revenue. As founder and CEO of Bizo, a B2B audience marketing and data platform, he built the company from its founding to 160 employees and over $50 million in revenue. He is on the board of Rock the Vote and is focused on using his experience with technology, data science, and narrative/branding tactics to develop novel strategies to increase engagement and turnout among young voters. He believes that great cultures make for great companies and loves his wife, three daughters, Duke basketball, golf, and just about anything in VR.
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About Ginger, Headspace, LinkedIn: Headspace is a digital health platform that provides guided meditation sessions and mindfulness training.
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.
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.
David Ko
Co-founder and CEO of Ripple Health Group
David Ko is the Co-founder and CEO of Ripple Health Group (RHG), an early stage healthtech startup focused on helping people experience healthier lives by connecting them to the care, support, and community they need. Prior to RHG, David was the President, COO and Board Member of Rally Health, a digital health company that develops online and mobile solutions that make it easy for consumers to take charge of their health and health care. Rally’s solutions are currently available to nearly 55 million people through health plans, care providers, and more than 200,000 employers. Prior to joining Rally, David oversaw all strategy, planning and operations as COO at Zynga, which he helped take public in December 2011. At the time of its IPO, Zynga was the largest social gaming company in the world with over 100 million daily active users. Prior to his work at Zynga, he spent 10 years at Yahoo! in various senior executive roles, including SVP of Yahoo!’s audience, mobile, and local businesses. David serves on the board of overseers at his alma mater New York University Stern School of Business where in 2016 he established the NYU Stern Venture Fellows program for aspiring entrepreneurs. He also works as an advisor and investor to a number of companies in Silicon Valley including Calm, the number one app for Sleep, Meditation and Relaxation.
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About Audax Health Solutions, Calm, Ripple Health Group: Ripple Health Group is a platform for the world’s most trusted healthcare solutions.
Dustin DeVan
CEO of AWAIR
Dustin D. is a Board Member / Investor and CEO for Awair since Mar-2021.
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About AWAIR: Awair’s mission is to empower people worldwide to breathe safely through cutting-edge indoor air quaity monitoring.
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
Jiang Li
CEO of VivaLnk
Jiang has both passion and extensive experience in bringing innovative technology and products into the marketplace. He has held various senior management positions in both large high tech organizations and startup companies. Prior to joining VivaLnk, he was responsible for new product and technology development as the VP of engineering in Kovio and Thinfilm Electronics, leading printed electronics companies. Prior to that, he worked at AMD and the joint venture between AMD/Fujitsu, Spansion. As the VP of product engineering in Spansion, Jiang managed the major new product launches in Spansion. Jiang holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University in China.
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About VivaLnk: VivaLnk is a provider of connected healthcare solutions for in-patient and remote patient monitoring.
Justin Wang
CEO of LARQ
Justin Wang serves as the Chief Executive Officer at LARQ.
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About LARQ: LARQ helps people access pristine drinking water easily and sustainably.
David E. Weekly
CEO of Medcorder
David is a nerd who likes people. David runs the product org for the datacenter software team at Google and previously helped launch internet.org at Facebook, helping to connect the species to the Internet. Before that, he started and ran Ohana (a service to help parents share videos of their kids with extended family) and PBwiki (the first private hosted wiki company), still used by millions of people a month. He was the Founding Director of Hacker Dojo, one of the world’s largest hackerspaces, located in Mountain View, and was the Founding Partner of Mexican.VC, Silicon Valley’s first seed fund for Mexican Internet startups and the best performing Mexican tech fund in history. David has been programming since he was five and graduated from Stanford with a degree in Computer Science as a President Scholar. He has worked in such widely varying technology environments as Harvard Physics Labs, MIT Lincoln Labs, Stanford Graphics Labs, atWeb (acquired by Netscape), myplay (acquired by Bertelsmann), Legato (acquired by EMC), and There.com (where he worked with Eric Ries, the inventor of The Lean Startup methodology). David has served as an advisor to dozens of technology companies, including Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Attassa (acquired by YouSendIt), and Like.com (acquired by Google).
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About Medcorder: Medcorder is a mobile app that helps families to coordinate and communicate about patient care.
Jon Mayfield
CEO and VP, Product R&D of Zwift
Zwift Co-Founder and Vice President of Product at Zwift. He is a games industry veteran, having worked at Applied Minds and High Impact Games before his hobby project of Zwift turned pro.
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About Zwift: Zwift operates an online fitness platform used to transform monotonous solo indoor cycling into dynamic and social adventures.
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.
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.
Ranj Bath
CEO of Nurosene Health
Ranj is the CEO of Nurosene, a technology-driven wellness company committed to building a generation of healthier brains, publicly traded on the CSE (CNSX: MEND). With over 20 years at the forefront of building brands across technology, entertainment and finance, Ranj is an inspirational leader that has held various senior leadership roles at companies such as Intel and Beats (Apple). As VP Corporate Strategy at Beats Music Ranj was instrumental in driving strategy and partnerships that would lead to both subscriptions and revenue, working with the Beats brand all the way through a $3Bn acquisition by Apple.
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About Nurosene Health: Nurosene Health is a technology-driven wellness company that helps healthy habits improve their brain, mind, and body.
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.
Yanghee Paik
CEO & Co-founder of Rael
Yanghee Paik joined Rael as CEO / Co-founder in 2018.
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About Rael: Rael makes natural and organic period products that don’t sacrifice comfort or performance.
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.
Jon Carder
Co-founder & CEO of Vessel
Jon Carder is an experienced entrepreneur who has founded five internet businesses, his first at the age of 19. In college Jon founded eHeaven.com, an online e-commerce superstore that was purchased by BabyUniverse in 2002. Jon Carder then founded Client Shop inc. a website dedicated to finding consumers the lowest rates on home loans. ClientShop was San Diego’s fastest growing company in 2005 (San Diego Business Journal) and was sold to Internet Brands in 2006. After a short “retirement” he realized building companies beats is more fulfilling than being retired and started his next venture, MojoPages.com, an online local search engine which received $5M (series A) from Austin Ventures and operates out of La Jolla, CA. Most recently Jon is founder and CEO of Mogl.com – a frictionless online to offline rewards program & Empyr.com – an online to offline ad platform. Mogl/Empyr has raised $35M in funding and has a partnership with Visa, Mastercard and Amex to effortlessly track any purchase from an enrolled consumer at a participating offline merchant in under 1 minute..
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About Vessel: Vessel is an at-home wellness tracker that helps in accessing, understanding, and optimizing health and wellness from the comfort of home.
John Doyle
Co-CEO , President & COO of Castlight Health
John leads the finance, human resources and corporate development teams. John joined Castlight after serving as chief operating officer at Achaogen, a biopharmaceutical company. In that role, John managed business development, finance, information technology, and business strategy. Previously, John was vice president of finance and corporate planning at Genentech, Inc. John received an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BS in business administration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is a member of the 2012 Class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute and serves on the Achoagen board of directors.
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About Castlight Health: Castlight Health provides a healthcare navigation platform with resources for benefits, and vendors.
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.
Tammy Sun
Co-founder & CEO of Carrot Fertility
Tammy Sun is the CEO and Co-founder of Carrot: A startup that helps companies offer modern fertility benefits to their employees. Prior to founding Carrot, Tammy was Director of Partnerships at Evernote and Director of Communications at the FCC.
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About Carrot Fertility: 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.
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.
Gillian Tee
Co-founder & CEO of Homage
Gillian Tee is a technopreneur who has leveraged on her professional and personal experiences to establish Homage, which seeks to use technology to overcome long-standing gaps in the delivery of holistic healthcare for seniors and families. Under her leadership, the company has built a proprietary engine which connects qualified Homage Care Professionals – including caregivers, nurses, doctors and therapists – to care recipients according to their specific needs, in addition to using real-time data to help their loved ones monitor their health and appointment status remotely. First established in Singapore and now in Malaysia, Homage has set sights on further expanding regionally to help seniors and families – especially people with chronic conditions – by replicating its proprietary technology across markets and working with ecosystem stakeholders to improve accessibility to healthcare for all.
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About CodeUpStart, Homage: Homage is a complete solution that combines technology and the best care professionals to enable seniors to age at home with dignity.
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.
Jitendra Gupta
Co-founder & CEO of myYogaTeacher
Jitendra started his career as a software engineer in the EDA industry. In 2000, after his MBA, Jitendra joined Siebel systems. In 2005 Jitendra joined InQuira as director product management. After InQuira Jitendra started (late 2006) and sold (March, 2009) SezWho, an online reputation service for social media participants. SezWho raised $1.3 M in VC money, built up massive distribution and was sold in early 2009. Jitendra Gupta launched Punchh out of a need to help restaurants find, retain and grow their customer base. Jitendra has led Punchh to be the first and leading one-stop mobile solution for restaurants. Drawing on his knowledge of social media and technology, Jitendra tapped into his network of skilled entrepreneurs and brought together a brain trust of diverse talent to create Punchh. Prior to launching Punchh in 2010, Jitendra held several key product, marketing, and engineering positions at Siebel Systems, Synopsys and Inquira. He founded and sold his first company, SezWho, a widely distributed and used consumer/social media ratings and reputation product in 2007. Jitendra earned a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Most crave-able restaurant dish on Jitendra’s mind: A good burger and fries
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About myYogaTeacher: myYogaTeacher is a live and interactive yoga platform that offers group and one-on-one yoga classes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ashwin Cheriyan
CEO of Thistle
Ashwin Cheriyan is a Co-Founder at Thistle.
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About Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Thistle: Thistle is a food and juice company that delivers fully-prepared, plant-forward meals to the doorsteps of its customers.
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.
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.
Julia Hu
CEO of Lark
Having been too often sleep deprived and dropping off exercise and diet regimens, Julia’s goal is to make people happier and healthier as the CEO of lark technologies. Named Top 10 Most Innovative CE Companies in the World by Fast Company, lark is a mobile and wireless technology company that uses behavior change to personally coach people to feel great. A serial entrepreneur, she has focused on growing early-stage startups in the consumer products and cleantech space. Prior to lark, she ran global startup incubator Clean Tech Open, her own green buildings startup, and worked in China to build consumer electronics with D.light Design. She received her master’s and bachelor’s degrees at Stanford University and half a MBA from the MIT Sloan (a dropout, but they were kind enough to make lark a casestudy). She was an entrepreneur in residence at Stanford’s StartX incubator, and named Top Woman Entrepreneur Under 40 by Marie Claire Magazine.
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About Lark: Lark is a digital health startup that provides virtual care through AI coaching, smart devices, and tele-monitoring.
Andrew Hines
CEO of Canvas Medical
Andrew founded Canvas Medical in 2015 and leads the team. Prior to Canvas, Andrew built one of the largest real-time analytics tools in healthcare at Practice Fusion and led large-scale data science teams in the advertising and travel industries. He holds an MS from the Stanford School of Engineering. His wife, Anna, is a family nurse practitioner at a safety net clinic in San Francisco; her experience with electronic health records inspired him to start Canvas. Andrew enjoys spending time with his wife and son, surfing, and trail running on mountainous terrain.
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About Canvas Medical: Canvas Medical is a healthcare platform for primary care practices.
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.
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.
Stefan Batory
Cofounder & CEO of Booksy
Stefan Batory is a Co-Founder & CEO at Booksy.
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About Booksy: Booksy is an online platform for finding and booking beauty and wellness appointments.
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.
Thomas W. Burns
President & Chief Executive Officer of Glaukos
Thomas W. Burns has served as our president, chief executive officer and as a member of our board of directors since March 2002. Mr. Burns has also been a member of the board of directors of DOSE Medical Corporation since October 2009 and its chief executive officer and president since March 2010. Mr. Burns has a proven record of building successful medical device and pharmaceutical businesses and creating successful new markets in ophthalmology. Mr. Burns has more than 25 years of direct ophthalmic management experience, including over 20 years of general management experience across a broad range of ophthalmic medical devices, ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, drug delivery technologies, surgical products and over-the counter products. Prior to joining our company, Mr. Burns led Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (acquired by OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) as its president and chief operating officer, and a director. From 1990 to 1997, Mr. Burns served as senior vice president and general manager of Chiron Vision Corporation (acquired by Bausch & Lomb, Inc.), and then as vice president, global strategy and general manager, refractive surgery of Bausch & Lomb from 1998 to 2000. Mr. Burns has also served as an entrepreneur-in residence at Versant Ventures Management, LLC, an entity affiliated with one of our principal stockholders. Mr. Burns received a B.A. from Yale University. We believe Mr. Burns’ extensive understanding of our business, operations and strategy, as well as significant industry experience and corporate management skills and experience qualify him to serve onour board of directors.
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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.
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.
Kate Miller
Co-founder and CEO of Miss Grass
Kate Miller is the Co-Founder and CEO at Miss Grass. She was a Founder and Co-President of MKPresents and Senior Manager & Director of Enterprises at Broadway Video. Ms. Miller graduated from the University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management.
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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.
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.
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.
Afton Vechery
Co-founder and CEO of Modern Fertility
Afton Vechery is Co-founder and CEO at Modern Fertility. Prior to this, she was product manager at 23andMe, and worked for WillowPump as strategy and finance consultant.
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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.
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.
Brandin Cohen
CEO of Liquid I.V
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About Liquid I.V: Liquid I.V. is a health-science nutrition and wellness company.
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.
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.
Brian Plackis-Cheng
Chief Executive Officer of Careship
Brian Plackis Cheng is the CEO and MD at Careship.
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About Careship: Careship helps families find the right caregiver for their loved ones.
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.
Katerina Markov Schneider
Chief Executive Officer of Ritual
Katerina Markov Schneider is the CEO & founder of Ritual, a stealth health technology company. Previously, she was a Venture Partner with Troy Carter in his investment fund, AF Square, where she managed an active portfolio of over 70 investments, including Styleseat, Dropbox, Warby Parker, Spotify, Uber, and Lyft. Earlier in her career, Katerina served as Head of Global Innovation at Atom Factory, a branding, digital, and entertainment management company, where she led digital strategy & high-level technology partnerships for artists such as Lady Gaga and John Legend, along with associated brands and investment portfolio companies. She previously worked as Global Lead of Digital Innovation at Universal Music Group; and before that, was the Senior Business Development Advisor to the company’s Chairman & CEO. Before Atom Factory, Katerina served as Global Lead of Digital Innovation at Universal Musical Group, and as an advisor to the CEO of Shine America where she developed strategies to build digital brands for TV properties. She also worked in business strategy & operations at FOX Audience Network and worked as an Investment Banker at Lehman Brothers in the Global Gaming and Lodging Business. Katerina earned a degree from Brown University in Applied Mathematics-Economics and is on the board of several startups. She was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 for Venture Capital list for 2014, serves as a Global Shaper for the World Economic Forum and lives in Los Angeles, CA with her husband, Michael, who is also an entrepreneur, and daughter, Tali
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About Ritual: Ritual is a health technology company that is re-inventing consumer products.
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.
Stephen Estes
Co-Founder & CEO of Wendi
Stephen Estes is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wendi, a digital assistant for healthcare providers that automates the front desk and back office of a medical practice.
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About Wendi, WeRecover: Wendi is a digital app for healthcare that automates patient screening, insurance verification, scheduling, paperwork, and communications.
Matthew Adell
Co-Founder and CEO of OnNow.tv
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About MetaPop Inc., OnNow.tv: Discover, Share and Promote Livestreams
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.
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.
Jim Huether
CEO of Hyperice
Jim Huether is the CEO at Hyperice.
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About Hyperice: HyperIce provides recovery and movement enhancement technology for athletes.
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.
Victor Chapela
Co-founder & CEO of Suggestic
Victor Chapela has over 25 years of IT experience and entrepreneurship. During this time, he has founded and led 6 technology companies in the United States and Mexico. As the founder and CEO of these companies he has mainly been involved in the design and development of software products and specialized services for the financial industry and large corporations. His latest companies: Sm4rt Security Services and Sm4rt Predictive Systems were both acquired in 2014. Mr. Chapela is an active angel investor and mentor in the Silicon Valley area. His main expertise lies within the area of information security, risk modeling, predictive analytics and machine learning. He is co-author and contributor of courseware, study material and papers for SANS, OWASP, ISACA, Springer and several other organizations and media companies. He is a frequent speaker at international events and is frequently featured in business and trade magazines, television and radio.
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About Suggestic: Suggestic operates as a personalized nutrition platform that utilizes AI to deliver food recommendations.
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.
Joanna Yu
Founder & CEO of Humm.ly
Joanna is a musician, music therapist & actress. In the past, she worked for Universal Music Studio, Shanghai Media Group, and several entertainment companies as a singer and an assistant music supervisor. She has education background in mathematics and music therapy. She also has clinical music therapy experience at Sutter Health CPMC while she was pursuing music therapy degree at the University of the Pacific, which fueled the creation of Humm.ly with her passion to spread music’s ability to heal the world.
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About Humm.ly: Humm.ly is making mindfulness fun and motivating through music therapy informed content!
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.
Terri Rockovich
Co-Founder & CEO of Jinx
Seasoned executive with 12+ years of combined agency and client-side experience at fast-moving companies. Proactive and results-driven leader adept at managing multi-million dollar projects, with a solid history of generating impressive growth and profitability on media investments for a range of small businesses to major corporations. High comfort level executing diverse strategic mandates with killer teams that demonstrate intelligent risk-taking, cross-departmental project management, sharp organizational skills, creative and analytical thinking, and problem solving. Advanced experience driving the vision, strategy and execution of marketing activities.
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About Jinx: Jinx is a dog wellness brand that primarily sells dog foods online.
Kiki Freedman
Co-founder and CEO of Hey Jane
Kiki Freedman is the Co Founder of Hey Jane.
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About Hey Jane: Healthcare, on your terms
Christine Carrillo
Founder & CEO of Butlr Health
Christine Carrillo is a 3x founder and software engineer. Currently the CEO and co-founder of Butlr Health. Prev founder/CEO @ JOANY.
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About Butlr Health, Techstars: Managed marketplace that matches people with highly vetted therapists.
David S. Utley
President & CEO of Carrot
Utley graduated from Harvard Medical School (’92) and completed his surgical training in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, as well as facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, at Stanford University Medical Center, where he was subsequently appointed to the faculty as clinical assistant professor of surgery (1992-2003). He has over 25 peer-reviewed publications related to GI, plastic and reconstructive surgery, and otolaryngology. Prior to starting Carrot, Utley was the first employee and Chief Medical Officer for BARRX Medical (GI endoscopy, acquired by Covidien in 2012) from 2003 to 2014. Utley has had additional roles as founder, chief medical officer, or member of the board of directors with several start-up medical device companies, including: Somnus Medical Technologies (ENT), Curon Medical (GI), Aetherworks (pulmonary), BAROnova (GI), Freedom-2 (plastics), and CoAlign Innovations (spine), and is the inventor on more than 65 issued U.S. patents and 100 published U.S. patents.
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About Carrot: Carrot features a six-stage program to engage and helps people to quit smoking.
