los-angeles-founder
(2)
Ben Mones Built a Company Around the Part of a Résumé You Cannot See
A hiring mistake gave Ben Mones an unusually stubborn question: what if the useful signal was already public? Eleven years, an acquisition and a patent later, he is still working on where software should stop and human judgment should begin.
Sarah Oreck
Sarah Oreck is a Columbia-trained reproductive psychiatrist who co-founded and runs Mavida Health, a virtual platform built around a simple, long-ignored idea: women's mental health and their hormones are inseparable. From a private LA practice she scaled a clinical care model across four states - covering PMDD, fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause - through individual, group, and couples therapy plus medication management. In June 2026 Mavida was acquired by WPS, with Oreck staying on as co-founder.