Sheena Menezes is the co-founder and CEO of Simple HealthKit, a Milpitas, California digital health company delivering accurate, affordable at-home diagnostics, treatment, and follow-up care. A biochemist with a PhD from UC Santa Barbara, where she discovered a novel tRNA methylase, she built her career in in-vitro diagnostics before founding Simple HealthKit to close socioeconomic gaps in healthcare access. Born and raised in Kuwait with Indian-Portuguese roots, she has been recognized by Fierce Healthcare as one of its Most Influential Minority Executives in Healthcare and named to Inc.'s 2025 Female Founders 500.

Troy Kanji is an analyst at Boost VC, a pre-seed venture capital firm in San Mateo focused on deep tech investments. With a background in molecular biology from Brown University—where he researched ALS using Drosophila genetics—he bridges the worlds of science and finance. Before Boost VC, he cut his teeth at Trinity Life Sciences, F-Prime Capital (genomics), and Castle Island Ventures (crypto), building a unique cross-disciplinary lens. He's also co-founder and board member of Revalia Bio, a Yale spinout revolutionizing drug development with human data trials using donated organs.