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Maria Artunduaga
Maria Artunduaga is a Colombian-born physician-scientist, inventor and founder and CEO of Samay (formerly Respira Labs), a Mountain View medtech startup building a wearable plus AI platform that uses patented acoustic resonance to monitor lung function at home. She walked away from a plastic surgery residency at the University of Chicago after losing her grandmother Sylvia, taught herself engineering, and turned a kitchen-table idea into a company that has won the world's most competitive medtech accelerator and landed her on Inc.'s 2025 Female Founders list. She holds an MD, an MPH and an MTM, has collected dozens of prizes, six issued patents, and publications in Nature, NEJM and PNAS.
Charvi Shetty
Charvi Shetty is the co-founder and CEO of Aluna, a San Francisco respiratory-health company that makes an FDA-cleared, pocket-sized spirometer paired with games and AI so patients can track lung function from home and send the data to their doctors. A UC Berkeley bioengineer with a UCSF master's in biomedical imaging, she left an algorithm-engineering job at Genentech to build the device, became the youngest recipient of an NSF SBIR grant, and is recognized as one of the youngest female CEOs to bring an FDA-cleared healthtech device to market. In 2023 Aluna raised a $15.3M Series B, bringing total funding to about $27M.
Christopher Skowronek
Christopher Skowronek is the Chief Executive Officer of NuvoAir Medical, a Boston-based, virtual-first specialty care company built around the people most healthcare leaves waiting: patients with complex heart and lung conditions. He climbed into the top job after running growth and business for the company, and after two decades shaping sales and operations strategy across payers, providers and care-management platforms like Lumeris and Bamboo Health. His operating creed, borrowed from NuvoAir's own motto, is blunt: no one left behind. In 2026 he steered the company through the sale of its clinical-trials arm to Strados Labs so NuvoAir could do one thing without distraction - deliver cardiopulmonary care to patients across the country.