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Hopelab
Hopelab is a San Francisco social innovation lab and impact investor founded in 2001 by Pam Omidyar. It works at the intersection of technology and adolescent mental health, combining behavioral science, youth co-design, and research to advance the well-being of young people ages 10-25, with a focus on BIPOC and LGBTQ+ youth. Best known for the cancer video game Re-Mission, Hopelab now runs research programs, youth fellowships, and Hopelab Ventures, which has invested more than $12 million across roughly 20 youth mental health startups.
Nate Beyor
Nate Beyor is Chief Business Officer at Salt AI, the Los Angeles contextual-AI platform built for life sciences and healthcare. A bioengineer turned consultant turned operator, he holds a PhD in bioengineering from UC Berkeley, where he built microfluidic devices to detect pathogens. He spent his career at the seam between technology and biology - microfluidics, biologics manufacturing, stem cell therapy at Asterias Biotherapeutics, and digital health - before leading the Health Tech practice as a Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group. At Salt AI he runs corporate strategy, the solutions portfolio, and market expansion, helping translational scientists and drug developers move faster with AI they can actually trust in regulated settings.