Why I Built This

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Why I Built This P6: Kate Ryder - Maven

About Kate: Katherine (Kate) Ryder is the founder and CEO of Maven, the digital clinic for women. Maven is a telehealth platform offering instant access to its best-in-class network of women’s and family health providers, with a flagship 15-month maternity management program for employers to help new parents throughout their transition back to work. Kate previously worked as an early stage investor at the venture capital firm Index Ventures, based in London, where she focused on consumer technol...

Jul 24, 2017•25 min

Why I Built This P5: Erin Zaikis - Sundara

About Erin: Erin Zaikis was raised in Boston, to a dentist and a lawyer who embraced continuously giving back. Her dreams of being an astronomer were put on permanent hold after watching “Slumdog Millionaire” and realizing that she wanted to focus on problems a bit closer to home. After graduating from the University of Michigan she found herself in rural Thailand, meeting children who had never used soap and didn’t know how to wash their hands. She was horrified to realize this was the first ti...

Jul 24, 2017•24 min

Why I Built This P4: Lillian Zhao - Further Food

About Lillian Zhao Lillian Zhao is a former venture capitalist and impact investor turned entrepreneur. She started Further Food as an alternative medicine platform after her father was diagnosed with Diabetes II, her mother with a thyroid condition, and best friend with IBS. With no comprehensive resource for food-based health advice, she created a platform for functional health doctors and people who have healed themselves to share food-based solutions and inspire healing functional food produ...

Jul 11, 2017•29 min

Why I Built This P3: Krista Clement - Helper Helper

About Krista Krista Clement was a 4-time Captain for the University of Michigan Women's Basketball Team. After graduating in 2008 she joined Teach For America where she taught in the St. Louis Public Schools for 4 years. In her last year of teaching she went back to Graduate School at St. Louis University to get a Masters in educational Leadership and MBA. In one of her Entrepreneurship classes she came up with the idea for Helper Helper. She's been able to establish a partnership with the NCAA ...

Jul 11, 2017•25 min

Why I Built This P2: Erin Frey - Kip

Erin is the CEO & Co-founder of Y-Combinator funded startup Kip. Kip's mission is to remove the hurdles that prevent people from getting therapy and make therapy more effective. They do this by using data and technology to connect people with vetted therapists and to provide tools to see that therapy is working. Kip is proud to be 100% female founded and based out of San Francisco. Before Kip, Erin led community at Coach.me and launched the first startup incubator in Southeast Asia in Singap...

Jul 10, 2017•34 min

Why I Built This P1: Eve Peters - Whim

About Eve Eve Peters is a passionate entrepreneur, leader, and product developer specializing in social technology and two-sided marketplaces. Her current role is as Founder & CEO of Whim, a 500 Startups-backed dating app that curates actual first dates based on users' schedules, locations, and mutual interest. By handling logistics for its members, Whim streamlines the process of getting to a real-life meetup and bypasses the texting games and ghosting that characterize the typical dating a...

Jul 10, 2017•24 min

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