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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the Wellness space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Steve Gatena
Founder & CEO of Pray.com
Steve is the founder of pray.com, the digital destination for faith. Steve is an American Entrepreneur, Media Producer, and NCAA Champion. In 2019, Steve was honored as a CSQ 40 Under 40 Visionary. Steve has also received an Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the United Nations in a program sponsored by Dell & Intel, and been named #8 on the Forbes list of Famous Multi-Generational Entrepreneurs.
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About Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Pray.com: Pray.com is the #1 app for daily prayer & faith-based audio content
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Michael Lynn
Founder & CFO of Pray.com
Michael is the founder of pray.com, a social impact company for Non-Profits and Faith Organizations. Pray.com’s vision is to create a world where everyone leaves a legacy of helping others. Pray.com’s private social network gives Faith Organizations and Non-Profits the ability to organize their membership, run small groups & events, and raise funds for causes they care about most.
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About Pray.com: Pray.com is the #1 app for daily prayer & faith-based audio content
Gwyneth Paltrow
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Goop
Gwyneth Paltrow is one of today’s most prolific and celebrated actors in both television and film. Additionally, Paltrow continues to develop her lifestle brand: Goop; wellness advice, clean beauty, fashion & home. A testament to her undeniable acting talent is Paltrow’s role in Shakespeare in Love that catapulted her into awards stardom with Best Actress honors at the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and Academy Awards. In 2011. Gwyneth Paltrow was also honored with an Emmy Award for Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as substitute teacher Holly Holiday on Fox’s smash-hit musical series Glee. In 2013, Paltrow published her second cookbook, It’s All Good, which joined her first-ever cookbook, My Father’s Daughter (published April 2011), on the New York Times Best Sellers list. She first established her credibility in the culinary field when she cowrote Spain, A Culinary Road Trip with acclaimed chef Mario Batali.
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About Goop: Goop is a lifestyle brand providing digital content and commerce.
Laurence Girard
CEO & Founder of Fruit Street
Laurence Girard is the CEO and Founder of Fruit Street which is the first company to deliver the CDCs National Diabetes Prevention Program via telehealth and live video conferencing with registered dietitians. The company had raised more than $20 million in funding from approximately 300 physician investors. Laurence graduated from the Harvard Extension School with a Bachelor’s Degree. His passion for entrepreneurship started during his first year of college when the Harvard Innovation Lab was opened in the Harvard Business School campus. While in college, Laurence was volunteering in an emergency room while taking a nutrition epidemiology course. It was at this point he decided our healthcare system needed to focus more on prevention and that he decided to focus his career in public health, technology, and entrepreneurship. Laurence is also the Managing Director of Hippocrates Ventures, a physician funded VC fund. His company Fruit Street recently launched COVIDMD.com, a new national telemedicine service battling the COVID-19 pandemic.
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About Fruit Street, Hippocrates Ventures, New Amsterdam Football Club: Fruit Street is a developer of a digital diabetes prevention and weight loss program.
Founder & CEO of Viome
Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur and philanthropist driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges through innovation. He is the founder of several successful companies including Moon Express, BlueDot, Viome, Intelius, TalentWise and InfoSpace. Moon Express is the only company to have permission from the US government to leave earth orbit and land on the moon. It’s developing technologies to harvest planetary resources on the moon for the benefit of humanity. BlueDot is focused on bringing most promising technological innovations from the national labs, NASA and elite universities and supercharging them with great entrepreneurs to create successful enterprises that tackle humanity’s grand challenges. Viome is focused on discovering predictive biomarkers to eradicate all diseases. Our initial goal is to provide personalized diet & nutrition based on deep analysis of microbiome, metabolome and meta genomics. Naveen Jain a trustee of the board and vision circle member at the X PRIZE Foundation where he is focused on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address the global challenges in health, education, women empowerment, agriculture, and energy. Naveen Jain is on the board of Singularity University, an interdisciplinary university with the mission to educate and inspire leaders to address humanity’s grand challenges through innovative technologies. Naveen Jain has been awarded many honors for his entrepreneurial successes and leadership skills including “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year”, “Albert Einstein Technology Medal” for pioneers in technology, “Humanitarian Innovation Award” at the United Nations, “Distinguished Global Thinker Award” by IILM, “Most inspiring Entrepreneur” by Andaaz TV, “Most admired Serial Entrepreneur” by Silicon India, “Top 20 Entrepreneurs” and “Lifetime Achievement Award” for the leadership in the technology industry and support of other entrepreneurs by Red Herring.
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About Bellevue LifeSpring, BlueDot, Moon Express, TalentWise, Viome, World Innovation Inc: Viome is a provider of comprehensive health insights designed to help people track their gut microbiome health.
Artem Petakov
President and Co-Founder of Noom
Artem Petakov is the president and co-founder of Noom Inc. Prior to that, Artem co-founded WorkSmart Labs and served as CTO. He is also a former software engineer at Google.
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About Noom: Noom is a psychology-based digital health platform used to provide intelligent nutrition and exercise coaching.
Saeju Jeong
CEO & Co-Founder of Noom
A serial entrepreneur from a young age, Saeju has always an intense desire to help people. He sits on South Korea’s Ministry of Science & Technology’s steering committee and the board of Chonnam Hospital, South Korea’s largest private hospital.
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About Noom: Noom is a psychology-based digital health platform used to provide intelligent nutrition and exercise coaching.
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.
Zachariah Reitano
Co-Founder and CEO of Ro
Zachariah is the CEO and cofounder of Ro. Founded in 2017, Ro is a healthcare technology company with a mission to provide personalized healthcare to everyone on the planet. Ro has three end-to-end verticals: Roman (men’s health), Rory (women’s health), and Zero (fighting addiction). As CEO and cofounder, Zachariah leads all medical and regulatory operations and oversees all verticals. Zachariah was named Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30, Business Insider’s 30 Under 40 in Healthcare, and a finalist in EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Ro was named #2 in Wellness in Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies 2019.
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About Ro, Roman: Ro is a telehealth startup that operates digital health clinics for men’s and women’s health, along with smoking cessation.
Rob Schutz
Co-Founder, Chief Growth Officer of Ro
Rob Schutz is a Co-Founder at Ro.
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About BarkBox, Ro, Roman: Ro is a telehealth startup that operates digital health clinics for men’s and women’s health, along with smoking cessation.
Saman Rahmanian
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of Ro
Saman Rahmanian is the co-founder of Ro, a mission-driven healthcare technology company, and Managed by Q, the smart office management company. Saman also holds a partner role at Prehype, a venture development firm that incubates new businesses together with large corporations. Before Prehype, Saman started his career in advertising agencies around the world, where he became the 5th most awarded creative around the globe.
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About Ro, Roman: Ro is a telehealth startup that operates digital health clinics for men’s and women’s health, along with smoking cessation.
Erica Johnson
Co-Founder of Modern Health
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About Modern Health: Modern Health is a mental well-being platform for innovative companies offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided courses all in one app.
Alyson Watson
Founder & CEO of Modern Health
Alyson Friedensohn is a founder and CEO at Modern Health.
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About Modern Health: Modern Health is a mental well-being platform for innovative companies offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided courses all in one app.
Michael Duda
Founder & Managing Partner of Bullish
Mike is one of two Managing Partners responsible for the overall health of Bullish. A relentless business leader, he has a well-rounded and diverse career that includes experience in brand management, business/corporate development, interactive and B2C investing. Over the course of his 20+ years in business, Mike has worked on a wide-range of brands including Birchbox, Casper, Citibank, DirecTV, Google, TripAdvisor, Under Armour and vineyard vines. He has spoken at numerous industry events, named one of Crain New York’s “Top 40 Under 40,” Business Insider’s “Top Investors” and ADWEEK’s “Best Advertising Voices on Twitter.” Prior to founding Bullish and its predecessor firm (Consigliere Brand Capital) in 2010, Mike spent 13 years at Deutsch Inc., where he became the youngest Partner in the company’s 35-year history overseeing business development, marketing and corporate strategy. He has held other industry roles including CEO of WPP-backed Johannes Leonardo.
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About Bullish: Bullish is an early-stage consumer investment firm and strategy-led brand agency.
Yarden Tadmor
Founder & CEO of Livekick
Yarden Tadmor is the CEO and founder at Livekick.
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About Livekick, Switch: Livekick is a live virtual mindful movement platform bringing the world’s greatest teachers to your home
Sylvana Quader Sinha
Founder, Managing Director and CEO of Praava Health
Sylvana Q. Sinha is founder and CEO of Praava Health, a leading healthcare company focused on improving health outcomes and patient journeys in emerging markets, where 85% of the world lives but whose current systems typically prioritize profits over patients.
Since launching in 2018, Praava has become Bangladesh’s fastest-growing consumer healthcare brand, and was designated a 2021 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and 2020 Fast Company World Changing Idea and Developing World Technology. Praava has served more than 300,000 patients and is tripling growth each year. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Praava quadrupled its patient base while maintaining an NPS rating of 91.3—significantly exceeding even the highest scores of Fortune 500 companies.
Sylvana also has decades of experience leading teams in international law, business, development, and government relations at major international law firms, management consulting firms, the World Bank, and think tanks in the Middle East and S. Asia. In addition to serving as an advisor to then-Senator Obama, she has independently advised private and sovereign clients on investments, projects, and disputes in the Middle East, Africa, and S. Asia.
Sylvana is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the World Economic Forum’s UHC2030 Private Sector Constituency, and served on Mount Sinai’s Arnold Institute of Global Health Task Force for Global Advantage. She is a graduate of Columbia Law School, Harvard’s Kennedy School, and Wellesley College and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford.
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About Praava Health: Praava Health is a patient-driven company disrupting the healthcare standard for Bangladesh’s 170 million citizens.
Christopher Morris
Founder & CEO of Daybreak Health
Christopher is an Internal Medicine and HIV specialist at NYU Langone Medical Center focused on digital health innovations as means to transform health care quality and access. He is most interested in using emerging telehealth technologies to transform the primary care experience.
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About Daybreak Health, NYU Langone Health, NYU Langone Medical Center: Daybreak Health is a digital health platform that facilitates mobile care solutions.
Herb Yoo
Co-Founder, CTO of Senaptec
Herb has extensive experience in the innovation and delivery of sensory performance products and services. While working for Nike, he created sensory assessment and treatment tools resulting in over 25 patents and directed the sensory research program that led to collaboration and published work with research universities. He also provided sensory performance training directly to professional sports teams, college athletic programs, and special operations units in the US military. Herb also spent 8 years in the Nike Sport Research Lab, conducting performance product research and conceptualizing athlete performance evaluation services. He completed both undergraduate work and Masters degree at the University of Michigan in the College of Engineering where he studied human factors and biomechanics. During his graduate school years, he conducted research on the visual demand and impact of in-vehicle systems on driving performance at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. Herb lives near Portland, Oregon with his wife Christine and two children.
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About Senaptec: Senaptec is developing a portfolio of tools to assess and improve brain health and performance.
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
Ben Evans
Founder & Chief Growth and Strategy Officer of Marathon Health
Along with Jeff Wells, Ben Evans founded OurHealth in February, 2009 to solve a growing problem in the healthcare delivery system, a lack of access and unaffordable cost escalation for employees and employers. Developing a model that is dedicated to independence, OurHealth has grown to be a leader in employer based onsite healthcare. Ben is a dedicated leader responsible for the overall strategic direction of the company. He has investment and management experience in multiple industries as an investor, manager and entrepreneur. A native of Indianapolis, Ben is active in the community, working with non-profits such as the American Lung Association, Special Olympics of Indiana, and the Penrod Society.
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About Marathon Health: Marathon Health offers a proven solution for helping employers reduce the total cost of healthcare
Jeff Wells
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Marathon Health
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About Marathon Health: Marathon Health offers a proven solution for helping employers reduce the total cost of healthcare
Melisse Gelula
Co-Founder of Wellgood
Melisse Gelula is senior vice president of brand for Leaf Group’s fitness and wellness division, overseeing the editorial, brand content, design, and video teams. As co-founder of Well+Good, Gelula was named to “Inc.” magazine’s Most Creative Entrepreneurs of 2018. Previously, Gelula was editor-in-chief of SpaFinderLifestyle.com, beauty director at “Luxury SpaFinder,” and travel editor at Fodor’s.
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About Wellgood: Wellgood is an organization that writes articles about exercise and healthy living.
Maisha Leek
Operating Partner and Head of Founder & Studio Ops of Human Ventures
Maisha Leek is chief of staff at United Masters and Translation. Prior to Translation, she served as the National Vice President, Government Relations for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America where she led a team advocating for 4 million youth across the country, including on military installations and Native lands. Before BGCA, she served as senior advisor to the President of Howard University, and chief of staff to a senior member of Congress. She also led a team in establishing the Equity and Excellence Commission at the U.S. Department of Education . During the Bush Administration, she was appointed to serve as special assistant to the Vice Chair of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Maisha is a trustee of Trinity College – Washington DC and a member of the Corporate Advisory Council of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
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About Human Ventures: Human Ventures is a business creation platform, comprised of a venture fund, studio and enterprise agency.
Joe Marchese
Co-Founder of Human Ventures
Joe Marchese is the Executive Chairman and lead investor in Human Ventures. Joe serves as president of Advanced Advertising Products at Fox Networks Group, where he leads operations in non-linear advertising products and services for 21st Century Fox’s global portfolio of channels. Joe was appointed to his current position after the company he founded, true[X], was acquired by 21st Century Fox in 2015. true[X], the leader in engagement advertising technologies, is now a part of the Advanced Advertising Products division. Joe is also the co-founder and Chairman of the Human company, Reserve. Prior to true[X], Joe spent several years as a television executive at the cable network Fuse TV, where, as SVP of Digital and Advertising. Joe currently serves on the board of trustees of the Paley Center for Media and the Board of Directors of the Tribeca Film Institute. Mr. Marchese holds a B.A. in Economics and Finance from Bentley University. He lives in New York with his wife Christie and their dog
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About Attention Capital, Casa Komos Beverage Group, Human Ventures: Human Ventures is a business creation platform, comprised of a venture fund, studio and enterprise agency.
Justin Guilbert
Founder & Co-CEO of Bravo Sierra
Justin Guilbert is a co-founder and co-CEO at Bravo Sierra.
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About Bravo Sierra, GoodFish, Harmless Harvest, Intraloop: Bravo Sierra is the military-native performance wellness company.
Robert C. Walker
Founder, Investor, and Board Member of LARQ
Robert C. Walker has 20 years experience in the LED and compound semiconductor world, particularly in Asia, and 6 years of venture capital experience. He was formerly a Partner at Sierra Ventures and CEO of BridgeLux. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech.
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About LARQ: LARQ helps people access pristine drinking water easily and sustainably.
Avrum Elmakis
Founder and CEO of CLMBR
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About CLMBR, TDBBS: CLMBR offers a vertical climbing machine, featuring a large-format touch display with on-demand classes.
Alarik Myrin
Co-Founder and CSO of Zwift
Zwift Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Zwift. Co-founded and worked as Chief Technology Officer at Sakonnet Technology, he oversees all aspects of product development, before co-founding Zwift in 2014. He is a Member of the Board of Advisors at the Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers (IRT), a non-profit organization dedicated to recruiting talented undergraduates into the field of teaching. IRT is affiliated with Phillips Academy at Andover.
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About Zwift: Zwift operates an online fitness platform used to transform monotonous solo indoor cycling into dynamic and social adventures.
Todd Dagres
Chairman and Founder of Liteboxer
Todd Dagres is the Chairman and Founder at Liteboxer.
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About Liteboxer, Signpost, Spark Capital: Liteboxer is a provider of a digital fitness platform used to provide an engaging full-body boxing workout.
Jeffrey Morin
Co-Founder and CEO of Liteboxer
Jeffrey Morin is the founder and CEO of Liteboxer.
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About Liteboxer: Liteboxer is a provider of a digital fitness platform used to provide an engaging full-body boxing workout.
Daniel Broukhim
Co-Founder & Co-Chief Executive Officer of FabFitFun
Daniel Broukhim is CEO and Co-founder of Charlie and FabFitFun.
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About FabFitFun: FabFitFun offers subscription services that allow its members to discover brands and products.
Michael Broukhim
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of FabFitFun
Michael Broukhim has directed new media strategy for leading entertainment, corporate, non-profit, and political clients. Before Charlie, Michael co-founded and led product initiatives at TotSpot, which earned top honors at Twiistup, Los Angeles’ premiere startup showcase. Michael graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College where he was awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding research. At Harvard, Michael served as the Editorial Chair for the Crimson and earned a National Pacemaker Award for his writing. In addition to his work at Charlie, Michael is earning his JD/MBA at Stanford and invests in early stage startups.
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About Charlie, FabFitFun: FabFitFun offers subscription services that allow its members to discover brands and products.
Katie Echevarria Rosen Kitchens
Editor in Chief and Co-Founder of FabFitFun
Katie Echevarria Rosen Kitchens is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of FabFitFun. She is a former VP of events and marketing at Out of the Box Events and LA Editor at Shecky’s Media, Inc.
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About FabFitFun: FabFitFun offers subscription services that allow its members to discover brands and products.
Dwight Crow
Co-Founder and CEO of Whisper
Dwight Crow is a product manager at [Facebook](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook#/entity), an online social networking service. Previously, he served as the founder of Carsabi.com. He is also the Co-Founder and CEO at Whisper.ai. Crow holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical biology and computer science from the [University of California, Berkeley](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-california-berkeley#/entity). He is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Meta, Whisper: Whisper develops AI-enabled, updateable hearing aids for people with hearing loss.
Andrew Song
President and Co-Founder of Whisper
Andrew Song is the President and Co-Founder at Whisper.
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About Whisper: Whisper develops AI-enabled, updateable hearing aids for people with hearing loss.
Shlomo Zippel
Co-Founder of Whisper
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About Whisper: Whisper develops AI-enabled, updateable hearing aids for people with hearing loss.
Coley Parry
CEO and Founder of FriendHealth
Coley Parry is the Founder & CEO of FriendHealth.
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About FriendHealth: FriendHealth is a risk-bearing provider that deploys multidisciplinary care teams and proprietary technology to bring health home.
David Ronick
Co-Founder and CEO of Minded
David is a co-founder of Minded and Stash, an LP in The Fund, and mentor to entrepreneurs at TechStars, Harvard Business School and Brown University
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About Minded: Minded is a consumer telehealth company that makes getting mental health medication easy and affordable
Fergus Hoban
Founder and Executive Chairman of UpStream Care
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About UpStream Care: UpStream Care is the ideal marketplace solution for medicine.
David Agus
Co-Founder of SENSEI Holdings
David Agus is an American physician and a New York Times bestselling author. He is a Professor of Medicine and Engineering at the University of Southern California. He is co-founder of Navigenics, a personalized medicine company and Applied Proteomics, as well as a CBS News contributor.
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About Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC, SENSEI Holdings, University of Southern California: Guiding you towards greater wellbeing.
Rod Burreson
Founder and President of Roex
Rod Burreson, the company’s founder and President, is a former athlete and body builder who has experienced a myriad of ailments and injuries resulting from these activities. Mr. Burreson became committed to finding and developing non-pharmaceutical solutions to improve his own quality of life. Not content with the current products and formulas on the market, Mr. Burreson, through education, research, and the collaboration of many of the finest professionals in their field, began to develop the highest quality formulas and comprehensive products that would meet his own specific health needs. Recognizing the tremendous health benefits he experienced, Rod realized that many other people could benefit from these types of products as well. Armed with the antioxidant (PC-95) he imported from Europe, Rod subsequently formed Roex Inc. in 1994, a company dedicated to finding solutions for some of the many problems associated with aging and nutritional deficiency. Since introducing PC-95, Roex has steadily added products to its line. Today, thanks to you, our loyal customers, Roex is one of the fastest growing companies in the nutritional supplement industry.
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About Roex: Roex is one of the fastest growing companies in the nutritional and dietary supplement industry.
Moawia Eldeeb
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Tempo
Moawia Eldeeb is the co-founder and CEO of Tempo.
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About Tempo: Tempo is a home fitness platform, combining equipment, training guidance, and social motivation with 3D sensors and artificial intelligence.
Philip Fung
Founder / CEO of Kit.com
Founder/CEO @Kit.com, Engineer #15 @Facebook
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About Kit.com: Kit.com is a home medical exams, delivered. Kit makes health testing simpler, easier and more reliable for your patients.
Jeni Mayorskaya
Founder & CEO of Stork Club
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About Stork Club: Stork Club is a maternity care platform that extends insurance coverage and provides all possible options to people who want to have a baby.
Alisia Ford
Founder & CEO of Glory Skincare
Alisia Ford is the Founder & CEO of Glory, a skincare and wellness brand for women of all hues. She is inspired to make skincare services more inclusive and reflect the diversity we see in our communities. Before starting Glory, Alisia, a trained attorney, led negotiations and managed license agreements for Nike and the dedicated advertising agency for Apple. Prior to that, she managed legal compliance for Mazda, worked for several law firms, and held various roles at some of the most premier sports, entertainment, and marketing organizations. Alisia is a graduate of USC-Marshall School of Business and Seattle University School of Law.
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About Glory Skincare: Glory Skincare provides data-driven skin care formulated for skin of color.
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.
John Capodilupo
Co-Founder & CTO of WHOOP
John Capodilupo is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at WHOOP.
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About WHOOP: WHOOP is a performance optimization system that tracks athlete recovery, training, and sleeping hours to help boost performance.
Aurelian Nicolae
Co-Founder & Director of Mechanical Engineering of WHOOP
Aurelian Nicolae is a Co-Founder and Director of Mechanical Engineering at WHOOP.
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About WHOOP: WHOOP is a performance optimization system that tracks athlete recovery, training, and sleeping hours to help boost performance.
Will Ahmed
Founder & CEO of WHOOP
Will Ahmed is the Founder and CEO of WHOOP, which has developed next generation wearable technology for optimizing human performance and health. WHOOP members range from professional athletes and fortune 500 CEOs to fitness enthusiasts and executives to military personnel and healthcare workers. Ahmed has raised more than $200 million from top investors and has an active advisory board that consists of some of the world’s most notable cardiologists, technologists, marketers, and designers. Ahmed wrote “The Feedback Tool: Measuring Fitness, Intensity, and Recovery,” which sparked the underlying physiology and engineering for his work today. Ahmed was recently named to the 2021 Sports Business Journal 40 under 40 list as well as 2020 Fortune 40 Under 40 Healthcare list and previously named to Forbes 30 Under 30 and Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40. In 2020, WHOOP was named Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company for Wellness. Before founding WHOOP, Ahmed was named a 2011 Harvard College Scholar for finishing in the top 10% of his class and a CSA Scholar Athlete; he captained the Harvard Men’s Varsity Squash Team.
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About WHOOP: WHOOP is a performance optimization system that tracks athlete recovery, training, and sleeping hours to help boost performance.
Aness An
Co-Founder & CCO of Rael
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About Rael: Rael makes natural and organic period products that don’t sacrifice comfort or performance.
Binna Won
CPO & Co-Founder of Rael
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About Rael: Rael makes natural and organic period products that don’t sacrifice comfort or performance.
David Renteln
Co-Founder of Soylent
David brings broad experience in operations and sales to Soylent where he sets up strategic business partnerships and drives the sales channels. Prior to this, he was the first employee at a biotech devices start up and co-founded an education technology company. David graduated from Harvard with a degree in Human Evolutionary Biology, where he also served as President of the Harvard Rugby Team.
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About Lucy Goods, Rosa Labs, Soylent: Soylent is a pioneer in food tech, producing delicious, functional foods, w/ complete nutrition that are good for the body & the planet
Grant Hosking
Co-Founder of Even
Grant is an entrepreneur at heart. With over 11 years of experience on Wall Street as an investment banker, Grant has advised numerous mergers and acquisitions with an aggregate value of over $50 billion. Like Sarah, Grant saw loved ones—including his father—suffer the negative side effects of crucial medications, inspiring him to help make Even a reality.
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About Even: Even offers a new kind of medical food to pair with medication, to help bring the body back into balance.
Isabelle Kenyon
Founder, CEO of Calibrate
Isabelle is the Founder & CEO of Calibrate. Prior to Calibrate, she led the business operations, growth, and strategic partnerships & communications teams at Capsule, a technology business that has raised $270 million to rebuild the pharmacy from the inside out. Before Capsule, Isabelle worked at beloved consumer brands in London and New York and was selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Retail & E-commerce list in 2015. She began her career as an investment banker in Hong Kong and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Calibrate: Calibrate is a digital metabolic health business that is changing the way the world treats weight.
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.
Maxime Germain
CEO, Founder of Jour
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About Jour: Jour is a guided journaling app that helps teens and adults with battling mental illness and commit mindfulness.
Harry Ritter
Founder and CEO of Alma
Harry Ritter is the Founder of Alma Health.
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About Alma: Alma is a membership-based network for mental health care providers.
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.
Andrew Grover
Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer of Tend
Andy Grover is Head of Development at Tend, the dental brand bringing a hospitality mindset to oral health. With vast experience in real estate, healthcare and branding, Andy has established himself as a leader in building spaces tailored specifically to guests’ needs and emotions. At Tend, Andy spearheads every aspect of development, focusing on finding the right locations to create a holistic environment that supports guests, marrying hospitality and the sensibility of the healthcare industry. Prior to Tend, Andy was the VP of Real Estate and Development at One Medical Group. In this role, he worked with clinicians and technology specialists to develop the practice’s signature design, helping scale the industry-leading healthcare model into the business it is today.
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About Tend: Tend is a technology-driven dental startup that provides hassle-free, personalized, and straightforward dental services.
Doug Hudson
CEO and Co-Founder of Tend
Doug Hudson is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tend. Born out of the need for systemic change across the dental industry, Doug’s vision is for Tend to set a new standard for oral health, starting at the dentist. As CEO, Doug applies his past experience spearheading numerous high-growth healthcare ventures to bring a hospitality mindset to the dental industry. Previously, Doug was the founding CEO of SmileDirectClub, a leading direct-to-consumer orthodontics company. Prior to this, he founded and led several consumer health companies including DiabetesCareClub and CPAPCareClub, Inc. and HearingPlanet, Inc., the latter of which became the largest online hearing aid distributor in the U.S. during his tenure.
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About Tend: Tend is a technology-driven dental startup that provides hassle-free, personalized, and straightforward dental services.
Michael Stenclik
Co-Founder of Tend
Michael Stenclik is co-Founder and Chief of Staff at Tend, the dental brand bringing a hospitality mindset to oral health. Michael’s eye for innovation and expertise in bridging gaps within disjointed systems played a key role in the early stages of Tend’s development. In his current role as Chief of Staff, Michael oversees operations across finance, regulation, talent and product, in addition to driving various strategic projects internally. Previously, Michael held a product management role at Quartet Health, a behavioral health technology company. In this role Michael helped develop an innovative product that delivered improved outcomes while lowering the total cost of care, creating a better experience for both guest and provider. Prior to this, Michael served as an engagement manager for Farenheit 212, consulting for several Fortune 500 companies.
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About Tend: Tend is a technology-driven dental startup that provides hassle-free, personalized, and straightforward dental services.
Trevor Tice
Co-Founder & CEO of CorePower Yoga
An unlikely candidate for owning yoga studios, Trevor opened the first CorePower Yoga in Denver in 2002, and filled a niche in an emerging yoga market. His goal? To create an empowering and health-focused environment where individuals are not bound by conventional ideas about the limits of body and mind. Prior to CorePower Yoga, Trevor owned TechPartners International, a $60 million dollar IT company he sold to a public UK firm in 2001. He received a degree in Business from the University of Colorado, and serves on the Board of Directors for MindBody Online and BridgeView IT. He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization and received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010 Award in the Retail & Consumer Products category in the Rocky Mountain region. In 2011, Trevor Tice and CorePower Yoga received the ACG Emerging Corporate Growth Award, an honor given to companies with annual sales less than $100 million that have demonstrated steady growth for three consecutive years. An avid believer in giving back, Trevor formed CorePower Cares, a nonprofit organization that leverages the generosity of the CPY community to support a myriad of philanthropic causes, most recently supporting the Japan relief effort. Trevor approaches challenges with “yes, we can – go do it”, encouraging all employees to explore new ideas. An avid yoga practitioner and teacher, he visits at least one CPY studio every day, providing positive feedback to instructors and managers.
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About CorePower Yoga: CorePower Yoga is a platform for any individual to learn and practice various styles of yoga.
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.
Ellen Latham
Creator & Co-Founder of Orangetheory Fitness
Ellen Latham is a highly trained physiologist with a lifelong passion for health and fitness. Her desire to be on the cutting edge of fitness inspired Ellen to design “The Ultimate Workout,” which became the foundation for Orangetheory Fitness – hailed by the New York Times as an effective new plateau-busting workout.Ellen is a Partner and Founder of Orangetheory Fitness, and Owner of Ellen’s Ultimate Workout gym in Florida. Inspired by her father Arthur Calandrelli, a very popular Physical Education teacher and coach in Niagara Falls, NY, Ellen has been motivating and training clients for over 35 years. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Education and a Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology from the University of Buffalo in New York.
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About Orangetheory Fitness: Orangetheory is a science-based group personal training workout broken into intervals of cardiovascular and strength training.
Khoa Tran
Co-Founder of Revery
Khoa is the co-founder of Revery, a mental health gaming company. At the age of 15, Khoa was diagnosed with hypertension and a host of other conditions needing medication. It wasn’t until he was 26 that Khoa found out poor sleep was the root cause. His first-hand experience inspired him to found Revery with a team including Stanford Sleep Medicine directors, an ex-Google product manager, ex-Sequoia Capital investor, and ex-Zynga and King lead game designer, building a mobile game to deliver sleep therapy as their first product. In 2022, Khoa was named Forbes 30 Under 30 in gaming.
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About Revery: Revery is using game thinking to revolutionize wellness.
Tammie Siew
Co-Founder of Revery
Tammie Siew is the Co-Founder of Revery.
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About Revery: Revery is using game thinking to revolutionize wellness.
Arun Venkatesan
Co-Founder of Carrot Fertility
Arun Venkatesan is the Co-Founder of Carrot Fertility. He was a member of South Park Commons prior to that.
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About Carrot Fertility, South Park Commons: Carrot Fertility helps employers offer their workers fertility benefits that are flexible, transparent, and cost-conscious.
Shizu Okusa
Founder & CEO of Apothékary
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About Apothékary: Apothékary is a global plant-based farmacy that offers clean alternatives to over the counter synthetic supplements & beauty products.
Lesley Eccles
Founder and CEO of HelloRelish
Lesley Eccles is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of HelloRelish. She is a serial entrepreneur and start-up advisor, now working on her third start-up, in the health and wellness space. She is co-founder of FanDuel, the fantasy sports company, and served as its Head of Marketing for 9 years.
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About HelloRelish: HelloRelish is a relationship wellness app that delivers personalized plan to rebuild your relationships.
Matthew Stoudt
Co-Founder and CEO of AppliedVR
Matthew Stoudt has a strong track record of building innovative businesses. Matthew is currently the co-founder and CEO of appliedVR. appliedVR’s mission is to drive positive behavioral by leveraging the unique properties of VR. The company is initially focused on the health care market and has rapidly become the leading medical VR platform delivering validated therapeutic VR content to health care providers in the US and internationally. Prior to founding appliedVR, Matthew founded and built Outcast Media into the largest digital video platform at gas stations across the US. Matthew sold the business to Verifone in 2014. Matthew was also an EIR at McDonald’s Corporation where he successfully launched multiple businesses including an in-restaurant digital video network and a ready-to-heat meal solution in grocery stores across the US. Matthew began his professional career in finance, raising over $1 billion in capital for high growth companies while at DLJ and investing in high growth companies while at Triumph Capital Group.
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About AppliedVR: AppliedVR offers virtual reality-based therapeutic treatments that address the complexity of chronic pain.
David Sackman
Co-Founder of AppliedVR
David Sackman is the Co-Founder and Chairman at AppliedVR.
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About AppliedVR, Material: AppliedVR offers virtual reality-based therapeutic treatments that address the complexity of chronic pain.
Carl Daikeler
CEO & Co-Founder of Beachbody
CEO/ Co-Founder at Beachbody
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About Beachbody: Beachbody has developed and offering an in-home fitness and weight loss solutions.
Larry Weiss
CEO and Founder of Symbiome
Larry Weiss MD is the Chief Medical Officer at AOBiome. He has an extensive background in natural products chemistry, microbiology, clinical medicine, and pharmaceutical development and product commercialization. Dr. Weiss is board certified in Anesthesiology, has an MD from Stanford University Medical School, and a BS from Cornell University in Biochemistry. He has a multiple patents and is published in the areas of chemistry, electrophysiology, pharmacology, and microbiology. Dr. Weiss is the founder of CleanWell Company.
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About AOBiome, Symbiome: Symbiome offers skincare as nature intended solution which is scientifically and intentionally formulated using ancestral ingredients.
Jason Bravman
Co-Founder of Billie
Jason Bravman is the Co-Founder of Billie.
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About Billie: Billie is a wellness company that offers shaving supplies and body products.
Georgina Gooley
Co-Founder of Billie
Georgina Gooley is the Co-Founder at Billie.
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About Billie: Billie is a wellness company that offers shaving supplies and body products.
Toni Cruthirds
Chief of Staff to Co-Founders of Billie
Toni Cruthirds works as VP and Chief of Staff to Co-Founders at Billie.
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About Billie: Billie is a wellness company that offers shaving supplies and body products.
Jannine Versi
COO and Co-Founder of Elektra Health
Jannine Versi joined the International Trade Administration as Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade in August 2014. Previously, she worked as a Product Marketing Manager at Google, where she focused on strategy and operations for the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Marketing, and helped to grow Google’s business in the Middle East and North Africa. Jannine spent time in India researching economic development as Fulbright Scholar and also interned in the White House at the National Economic Council. She holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Elektra Health, International Trade Administration: Elektra Health is a new healthcare platform on a mission to tackle the menopause taboo for women.
Alessandra Henderson
CEO and Co-Founder of Elektra Health
Entrepreneur building something new in the women’s health space.
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About Elektra Health, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship: Elektra Health is a new healthcare platform on a mission to tackle the menopause taboo for women.
Justin Marston
Founder & CEO of Tribe
Justin Marston is CEO and co-founder at Bamboo App. He served as a CEO and Co-Founder at Hypori, he is responsible for the company’s overall business strategy, operations, and long-term vision. A seasoned entrepreneur and technology innovator, Justin previously served as founder and CEO at BlueSpace Software, where he developed trusted virtualization security solutions for the defense and intelligence communities. Justin holds multiple patents, is a published author and a frequent speaker who has presented at numerous international defense and entrepreneurship conferences. He holds a master’s degree in chemistry from Durham University and is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
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About Bamboo App, Tribe: Tribe is an application that offers an online workout and provides ways to connect and interact with local fitness members.
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.
Norberto Menendez
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of LifeWallet
Norberto M. is the Founder at iNewton, LLC.
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About HMBL Health, iNewton, LifeWallet: Provides employers, communities and healthcare professionals with a simple, powerful solution to assess the health of their population.
Norberto Menendez
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of LifeWallet
Norberto M. is the Founder at iNewton, LLC.
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About HMBL Health, iNewton, LifeWallet: Provides employers, communities and healthcare professionals with a simple, powerful solution to assess the health of their population.
Alon Matas
Founder of BetterHelp
Alon Matas is the founder of BetterHelp, an online counselling platform. Currently, he is a board member of StyleToGo, a marketplace for online style advice. He is also engaged in Health Outcome handling the same position. He has been working with Connected Health Startup Accelerator as advisor and mentor since 2015.
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About BetterHelp, Yazamiya: BetterHelp is an online counseling platform that connects its members to licensed therapists.
Zachary Rubin
Co-Founder of ARENA
Zachary Rubin is a Co-founder of Go Arena.
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About ARENA, LiftLab, W8X: ARENA leads the at-home training center that uses cutting-edge engineering and industry.
Krisna Bhargava
CEO and Co-Founder of ARENA
Krisna Bhargava is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Go Arena.
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About ARENA: ARENA leads the at-home training center that uses cutting-edge engineering and industry.
Noah Lang
Co-Founder & CEO of Stride Health
Noah Lang launched Stride Health to make health insurance human. Stride translates coverage into a language everybody can understand because we believe healthcare decisions don’t have to be difficult. Stride is the first health insurance recommendation engine tuned and tailored to the life of an individual, providing Seamless, intuitive and transparent answers to consumers’ toughest coverage questions. Noah Lang was previously the founding VP of Business Development at Reputation.com where he spent 5 years building consumer products and distribution channels. Noah currently sits on the DMAs Data Governance Advisory Board and was selected as a “Privacy by Design Ambassador” in 2011. Noah is a graduate of Stanford University as a President’s Scholar with a degree in Product Design. Noah is an avid triathlete, skier and endurance sports junkie.
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About Stride Health: Stride Health is a provider of an insurance recommendation platform designed to offer health insurance services.
Kunal Sarkar
Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board of Lumos Labs
Kunal is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lumos Labs. Prior to founding Lumosity, Kunal co-founded the private equity fund AIMLP, which manages over $400MM in capital. The fund focuses on investments in infrastructure and natural resources. Prior to founding AIMLP, Kunal was Vice President at McCown De Leeuw and Co., a $1.2 billion private equity fund making growth equity investments. Kunal started his career in the Strategic Planning and Development group at the Walt Disney Company, where he was involved in the development of Disney’s acquisition strategy and over $5 billion of M&A transactions. Kunal graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.A. in Economics and a certificate in Finance.
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About Lumos Labs: Lumosity is a neuroscience research company that provides online brain training programs.
Omri Yoffe
Co-Founder & CEO of Vi
Omri Yoffe is Founder & CEO at Vi
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About Vi: Vi is the world’s leading Enterprise-AI for digital health.
Tom Aulet
Co-Founder & CEO of Ergatta
Tom Aulet is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ergatta.
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About Ergatta: Ergatta is an at-home connected fitness startup that offers a rowing machine and proprietary digital content.
Michael Geer
Co-Founder & CSO of Humanity
Michael Geer (MG) was founding team at Badoo (grew to largest dating site in the world and spawned the Social Discovery sector). He then ran operations at AnchorFree which became the largest consumer VPN in the world with over 700 million users. He now has cofounded Humanity with Peter Ward to extend the healthspan (healthy fully functional years of life) of every person on earth.
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About Humanity, Humanity: Humanity is a healthcare company that aims to extend the healthspan of humanity.
Gordon Pedersen
Founder of My Doctor Suggests
Dr. Gordon Pedersen: Ph.D. Immunology., Board Certified in Anti Aging and Regenerative Medicine (FAARM), Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine Doctor Gordon Pedersen has work experience with the worlds largest pharmaceutical company (Ciba/Novardis), the worlds largest sports nutrition company (Weider), one of the worlds largest biotechnology companies (Nikken), has co-authored one of the worlds most read books (Chicken Soup for the Enriching Soul), developed and published the mouse model for Influenza prevention, was an expert research and development author for the worlds most read magazine (Muscle and Fitness), served as the master distributor of a major network marketing company, published the cure for Malaria, as he was awarded a distinguished speaker award for his work in special operations medical association. Doctor Pedersen is an internationally renowned scientist, author, corporate officer, product formulator, and instructor. He is unique because he combines science and sales in a way that anyone of any background will understand. He formulates world-class products, expertly documents their benefits, credibly communicates through the use of scientific journals, international best selling books, marketing tools and has been a top executive for the past 19 years. Doctor Pedersen received his doctorate degree from the Toxicology program at Utah State University, where he received two distinguished service awards and constructed two space shuttle experiments. In addition he has formulated over 160 nutritional supplements/personal care products. He was one of the first to publish a double blind placebo controlled study on the benefits of protein supplementation in body builders, where he worked with Arnold Swartzenegger and published his results in muscle and fitness magazine. He was nominated to Chair the United States Pharmacopoeia Review Board (Natural Products Committee), and he hosted the radio show, Common Sense Medicine with Dr. Pedersen. He holds a broad spectrum of doctorate degrees giving him one of the most complete educations possible; He is a research doctor ( Ph.D. immunology, biology), a research doctor (Anti-Aging Medicine A4M), has a doctorate in naturopathic medicine, and is a member of Special Operations Medical Association where he was decorated as a distinguished speaker. This demonstrates his continual desire to learn and serve the medical needs of others. He has been employed by one of the worlds largest pharmaceutical companies, the worlds’ largest sports nutrition company, the second largest network marketing company, and has formulated hundreds of products including a published cure for malaria. Even though he has extensive educational credentials he was hired by Nikken as their sales Vice President and routinely outsells existing corporate sales forces due to his background in pharmaceutical sales experience. His knowledge and wisdom comes from the most well balanced education and experiences and he is different than any other doctor because he is usually the most educated, most experienced and most published doctor who has been the top distributor in a major network marketing company and served as vice president of sales, research and development, education and regularly increases the sales of those he teaches because he believes that “nobody gets paid until someone sells something”. The something that the world wants to buy is what he researches, formulates, documents and then publicly promotes.
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About My Doctor Suggests: Health and Wellness
Cat Lee
Co-Founder & COO of Pace
Cat Lee is the Co-Founder and COO at Pace. Her varied operating roles across people, marketing, product, and engineering enable her to help founders in many different capacities.
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About Pace: Pace is a fitness and social wellness platform that redefines mental health through groups that are effective, fun, social, and challenging.
Bettina Elling
Co-Founder & CMO of Pace
Bettina Elling is the Co-Founder and CMO at PACE. She was the Co-Founder of Foundations Marketing Group before that.
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About Pace, Proof Beverage: Pace is a fitness and social wellness platform that redefines mental health through groups that are effective, fun, social, and challenging.
Jack Chou
Co-Founder and CEO of Pace
Jack Chou is the Co-founder at Pace. Prior to that, he leads the team of product managers who work with the design and engineering teams to build Pinterest. Before becoming head of product at Pinterest, Jack was product manager of the search and discovery teams. He previously spent time as an entrepreneur, and he led the product team for the marketing solutions business at LinkedIn. He earned a degree in computer systems engineering from Stanford University.
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About Pace: Pace is a fitness and social wellness platform that redefines mental health through groups that are effective, fun, social, and challenging.
Edouard Gaussen
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Mantra Health
Edouard Gaussen is a Co-Founder and CEO at Mantra Health. Edouard has had experience operating and advising startups on growth and user acquisition. He was one of the early employees at Tinder, a social discovery app based in Los Angeles, which disrupted the online dating industry and creates millions of matches every day. His role evolved from handling all on ground growth strategies in the Canadian market to leading the international marketing team across 15 different markets worldwide. As an active member of the Montreal tech community, Edouard serves as a mentor at the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship at McGill University. Edouard holds a B.A. in Economics and Finance from McGill University. Born and raised in Switzerland, he is a dual French-Swiss citizen and calls Montreal home.
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About Mantra Health: Mantra Health is a digital mental healthcare company designed for all university students.
Matt Kennedy
Co-Founder, COO of Mantra Health
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About Mantra Health: Mantra Health is a digital mental healthcare company designed for all university students.
Steven Gutentag
Co-Founder of Keeps
Co-Founder, Keeps
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About Cove, Keeps, Thirty Madison: Keeps is a startup aimed at preventing and slowing age-related hair loss.
Demetri Karagas
Co-Founder of Keeps
Co-founder of Keeps
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About Keeps, Thirty Madison: Keeps is a startup aimed at preventing and slowing age-related hair loss.
Stephen Hays
Founder of What If Ventures
Stephen Hays is the founder, and managing partner of What If Ventures, a VC firm investing in early stage mental health and addiction recovery related startups. What If Ventures was formed in the spring of 2019 and closed its first investment in January 2020. Stephen also founded and managed Deep Space Ventures from 2015 until 2018. During that time he invested in 25 seed and series-A stage startups in the B2B SaaS, esports and FinTech spaces. Personal struggles with addiction and mental health led Stephen to step away from Deep Space Ventures in late 2018 and begin to focus on addiction recovery and mental health both personally and professionally. The Deep Space portfolio has achieved outsized returns with approximately 3x TVPI just 4 years since inception with 5 exits and nearly a dozen series-A and later rounds within its portfolio companies. Prior to founding Deep Space Ventures, Stephen worked as an investment banker for 6+ years in both New York and Dallas. During this time, he executed a numerous capital markets and M&A transactions for Fortune 500 companies. Stephen is a a graduate of West Point and obtained his MBA from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt.
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About What If Ventures: What If Ventures invests primarily in mental health, addiction, and stigmatized healthcare services from seed stage to pre-IPO.
