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Ellen DaSilva
Ellen DaSilva is the founder and CEO of Summer Health, a New York-based pediatric telehealth company that lets parents text a pediatrician and get an answer in under 15 minutes, 24/7. A mother of three, she built the company after living the gap herself: long waits, short visits, and a pile of unanswered questions. Before founding Summer Health in 2022, she was the eighth employee at Hims & Hers, led business operations at Twitter as revenue scaled from $100M to $2B, and worked on more than $10B of IPOs at Barclays. She is an HBS MBA, a Sequoia Scout, and co-author of the startup business-development book 'Pitching & Closing.'
Nitesh Banta
Nitesh Banta is the co-founder and CEO of B12, a New York-based AI website builder and online presence platform for professional service firms. A Harvard graduate who spent five years investing at General Catalyst and co-founded the student fund Rough Draft Ventures, he teamed up with his middle-school classmate Adam Marcus in 2015 to bet on a shift from do-it-yourself software to do-it-for-you software where AI and human experts work side by side. B12 has raised more than $40M and helped over 150,000 firms get online.