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Elinor Huang
Elinor (Wen-Hsin) Huang is the Founder and CEO of MEandMine, a San Jose-based AI-powered mental health platform for K-12 students that uses gamified, neuroscience-backed tools to help children build emotional regulation skills before crises emerge. Motivated by the loss of an MIT classmate to suicide and the 11-year average gap between symptom onset and treatment, she built MEandMine into a certified B Corp with partnerships spanning Google, Stanford Medicine, and the NYC Department of Education, and raised $6.6M in venture funding including a $4.5M round in June 2024.
Shubhra Jain
Dr. Shubhra Jain, MD, MBA is Chief Business Officer at Hippocratic AI, the $3.5B generative AI healthcare company building the world's safest patient-facing AI agents. A rare triple threat - trained primary care physician, Stanford engineer (MS Biodesign), and Wharton MBA - she brings a decade of healthcare investing and product leadership to Hippocratic AI's commercial strategy. Before joining HAI, she led healthcare investing at Tarsadia Investments and Cota Capital, and held product leadership roles at Natera and Pieces Technologies. A first-generation immigrant from a small Indian town, she is a passionate advocate for health equity, underrepresented founders, and making healthcare abundant for all.
Malika Aubakirova
Malika Aubakirova is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) on the AI Infrastructure team, where she backs foundational technologies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and enterprise infrastructure. A first-generation immigrant from Kazakhstan who coded at Google and Chronicle Security before pivoting to venture capital via Stanford GSB, she went from never having considered VC to closing deals at one of Silicon Valley's most storied firms in under two years.