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Colby Takeda
Colby Takeda is the co-founder and CEO of Pear Suite, a digital health company that gives community health workers the software, billing tools, and data infrastructure to be recognized as a foundational part of the healthcare system. A fourth-generation Japanese American from O'ahu, registered community health worker, and former senior living executive, he built Pear Suite during the pandemic on Google Sheets and Typeform before turning it into a care navigation platform that supports thousands of frontline workers. In October 2025 the company raised a $7.6 million Series A led by Rock Health Capital to expand its reach into Medicaid and Medicare markets.
Ann Miura-Ko
Ann Miura-Ko is co-founding partner at Floodgate, the seed-stage VC firm behind Lyft, Twitch, Twitter, and Okta. A NASA rocket scientist's daughter who went from painfully shy piano prodigy to national debate champion to Forbes' 'most powerful woman in startups,' she holds a PhD in mathematical modeling of cybersecurity from Stanford and has spent 15+ years betting on founders before anyone else believes in them. She co-founded AllRaise to diversify venture capital, teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford, and invests in roughly 3-5 companies per year with a philosophy built on secrets, stories, and world-class effort.
Mitski
Mitski (born Mitsuki Laycock, stage name Mitski Miyawaki) is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter and indie rock icon who built a devoted cult following with raw, emotionally devastating albums before breaking into mainstream consciousness with the 2023 TikTok phenomenon 'My Love Mine All Mine' from her seventh album 'The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We'. Born in Japan to an American diplomat father and Japanese mother, she grew up across seven countries and channeled a nomadic, identity-fractured childhood into some of the most confessional and precise songwriting of her generation. With eight studio albums and an Academy Award nomination under her belt, Mitski occupies a singular position in modern music: a fierce creative loner beloved by millions who resists the machinery of fame even as it claims her.