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Hasti Nazem
Hasti Nazem is the Co-CEO and Head of Product and Education at Kindra, a New York-based, science-backed women's health brand building estrogen-free solutions for menopause, vaginal health and intimate care. With roughly a decade at the intersection of life sciences, consumer brand-building and wellness, she co-leads the company alongside Afshan Dosani, grounding products in 160+ clinical studies and patent-pending peptide technology. She came to the work through a winding path: a family of physicians, a pre-med start, a detour into finance before the 2008 crash, and a return to school that led her to build wellness companies focused on sleep and, later, women's health.
Anne Fulenwider
Anne Fulenwider spent 25 years turning sentences into magazine covers, capped by eight years as editor-in-chief of Marie Claire. Then she walked away from the masthead to co-found Alloy Women's Health, a digital company that connects women in perimenopause and menopause to menopause-trained physicians and doctor-prescribed treatment delivered to the door. She runs it as co-CEO alongside Monica Molenaar, applying an editor's instinct for storytelling to one of medicine's most overlooked subjects.
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.
Sophia Yen
Dr. Sophia Yen, MD, MPH is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pandia Health, the only women-founded, women-led, doctor-founded, physician-led birth control and menopause telemedicine and medication delivery service in the United States. A Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford Medical School with 20+ years in medicine, she brings MIT engineering instincts, UCSF medical training, and UC Berkeley public health expertise to the problem of making prescription contraceptives and hormonal care radically more accessible for women. She co-founded SheHeroes.org to inspire girls in STEM and has been a nationally recognized voice on reproductive rights, menstrual equity, and women's health innovation.
Sylvia Kang
Sylvia Kang is the CEO and co-founder of Mira (Miracare), the company behind the world's first FDA and CE-registered comprehensive at-home hormone monitoring platform. A former concert pianist who pivoted to biomedical engineering, she built Mira from her kitchen table into a 140-person company with 200,000+ users worldwide and over 50,000 women helped to conceive naturally. Named to Inc. Magazine's 2024 Female Founders 250 list and Femtech World's Leader of the Year, Kang holds an MS in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia and an MBA from Cornell, and used her own product to conceive after age 35.