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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 technology, and in particular on investments in the health, education, art, and retail sectors.

Prior to joining Index, Kate worked as a journalist, writing for The Economist from Southeast Asia, New York, and London. In 2009, she worked with former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, helping him write his memoirs about the U.S. financial crisis.

Kate received her B.A. from the Honors College at the University of Michigan and her MSc from the London School of Economics. Kate is based in New York City.

Find out more about Maven at the link below!
www.mavenclinic.com

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 time she had ever given serious thought to soap – and even more shocked when she learned that even today, hundreds of millions of people go without access to soap – the most basic medicine available. Determined to put her experience to use, she founded Sundara, an organization that focuses on getting soap and hygiene education to communities who need it the most in a sustainable, community-led way.

Find out more about Sundara at the link below!

http://sundarafund.org

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 products. Lillian is a longtime advocate of public health and socially responsible business. She earned a Master’s degree at Harvard University in Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Policy. She is also a certified yoga instructor and an expert in the latest food as medicine solutions.



About Further Food:

Further Food is a mission-driven social enterprise. We create food-based nutritional products inspired by our community of health experts and health heroes. We are building the fastest growing community and knowledge platform dedicated to advancing natural health solutions.
Eat Better. Go Further.
www.furtherfood.com

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 and has just over 400 institutions on her platform - making it simple and fun (via competitions) for people to coordinate and track the community service they complete.

About Helper Helper

Helper Helper makes coordinating and tracking community service hours simple and fun. Learn more below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0icWeNgvv4

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 Singapore. She graduated from Yale University where she was captain of the Yale Fencing Team. When not working, Erin sings and plays guitar, attempts a yoga practice, blogs about going to therapy, and interviews people about their experiences with mental health and therapy.

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 app experience. With over 20,000 users and growing, the company hopes to influence today's tech-based dating culture by helping people spend less time on their phones and more time connecting in the real world.

Prior to founding Whim, Eve led Product at OkCupid Labs, where she applied the company's data-driven matching principles to create and launch a roommate-matching website called Crashpad. She also founded group dating site MIXTT, a TechCrunch50 honoree in 2008.

Eve holds a BA in Public Policy and Economics from Stanford University and a JD from UC Berkeley, where she studied a variety of topics including business law, intellectual property, negotiations, mediation, leadership, and mindfulness.

When not working to propagate love and whimsy, Eve enjoys hiking around the Bay Area, practicing Warrior poses at Yoga to the People, and singing around campfires. She loves Latin culture and language, and makes regular trips to spend time onsite with her development team in Buenos Aires.

The company will be launching a new app "Tonight" later this year. Sign up to learn more at thetonightapp.com.