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Alicia Tulsee
Alicia Tulsee is the founder and CEO of Moxie Scrubs, the direct-to-consumer apparel brand for nurses she built out of the Harvard Innovation Labs, and now Moxie360, an AI workforce platform aimed at nurse burnout and retention. A daughter of Trinidadian immigrants raised in Queens, she sold costume jewelry at a flea market at 19, talked her way into marketing jobs in India, and stitched together an unconventional path that ended in an economics degree from Harvard. She is not a nurse herself; she built a brand for them because nurses cared for her dying father, and she designed Moxie 'for nurses, by nurses' by collaborating with the people who wear the clothes. She raised about $2.4M in pre-seed funding in 2022 and was named to the Forbes Next 1000.
Shawn Dastmalchi
Shawn Dastmalchi is a serial healthcare-technology entrepreneur and the CEO of Gratia Health, an Austin-based startup that uses behavioral science and incentive design to keep nurses on the job. A UC Berkeley PhD in vision science, he co-founded and led Apixio, a clinical big-data company later acquired by Centene, then built Ark.one Health out of an entrepreneur-in-residence stint at Sutter Health. Across 25-plus years in life sciences, medical devices and health IT, his throughline is turning messy clinical data into decisions - and, at Gratia, turning the daily grind of a hospital floor into reasons for nurses to stay.