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Adrianne Nickerson
Adrianne Nickerson is the co-founder and CEO of Oula, a New York maternity company that fuses midwives, OB-GYNs and technology into one hybrid clinic built to give pregnant patients a calmer, more personal, evidence-based birth experience. A Columbia biology grad with a Harvard master's in global health, she decided she could help patients more by not becoming a doctor - and instead builds the systems doctors and midwives work inside. She co-founded Oula in 2019, opened it while pregnant alongside two pregnant co-executives, and has raised tens of millions to expand care that reduces unnecessary C-sections and centers patient voices.
Neil Ray
Neil P. Ray, MD is a board-certified pediatric anesthesiologist who traded the operating room for a startup. As founder and CEO of Raydiant Oximetry, he is building Lumerah, a non-invasive fetal pulse oximeter that reads a baby's oxygen levels through the mother's abdomen, and Daisy, a surgical device to prevent postpartum hemorrhage. His goal: retire a 50-year-old fetal monitor he calls no better than a coin toss, and cut the number of unnecessary C-sections that follow from it.