Joanna Strober

Joanna Strober is the co-founder and CEO of Midi Health, the first menopause startup to achieve unicorn status, raising $100M in Series D funding in February 2026 at a $1B+ valuation. A former Bessemer Venture Partners general partner and Sterling Stamos managing director turned entrepreneur, she built Midi Health after her own year-long struggle to get a perimenopause diagnosis in her late 40s. Midi now serves 230,000+ patients across all 50 states through a network of 500+ clinicians, with care covered by approximately 80% of PPOs. Named to TIME100 Health 2025, CNBC Changemakers 2025, and Forbes 50 Over 50 2023, Strober is also a published author (Getting to 50/50) and a former founder of Kurbo Health, the first digital therapeutic for childhood obesity, which she sold to WW.