Great Entrepreneurs with RJ Lumba

Transforming Employee Healthcare: Healthee’s Guy Benjamin

In this episode, we speak with Guy Benjamin, Co-Founder and CEO of Healthee, a healthcare platform that makes it easier, faster, and more efficient to get care.
Founded in 2021, Guy’s team believes everyone, everywhere, deserves access to high-quality affordable healthcare. The platform provides personalized, instant, and uncomplicated answers to coverage, treatment, and benefits questions, end-to-end Open Enrollment support, and tailored preventive care suggestions.
Prior to Healthee, Guy worked as an Associate Partner for McKinsey & Company. 
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Legal Tech Innovator: Proof’s Eric Voogt

In this episode, we speak with Eric Voogt, Founder and CEO of Proof, the world's first on-demand service-of-process platform that provides instant access to experienced servers and the ability to track a serve in real-time from a desktop computer or mobile device.
Founded in 2017, Eric’s paralegal understood the issue of tirelessly calling process serving companies to see if they had availability, while faxing docs and waiting to get updated on serve statuses. The people at Proof believe law firms can create electronic serve requests 24/7, receive live updates, see mapped verification of all attempts, and connect directly to servers in real time.
Eric is also currently President of the firm Glad Voogt Lopez Smith PC.
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Private Credit For All: Percent’s Nelson Chu

In this episode, we speak with Nelson Chu, Founder and CEO of Percent, which is unlocking private credit and providing unparalleled access through its modern private credit market, empowering investors, borrowers, and underwriters with innovative technology to increase the speed and frequency of transactions at a fraction of the cost.
Founded in 2018, Percent’s platform is becoming the market standard for asset-based and corporate lending, powering over $1 billion in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar private credit industry.
Prior to Percent, Nelson founded a strategy consulting firm named Lumenary, and co-founded MySupport, an online platform that helps seniors, people with disabilities and families connect with direct support workers.
Nelson supports Yamba Malawi and Womankind.
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Recovery Within Reach: Bicycle Health’s Ankit Gupta

In this episode, we speak with Ankit Gupta, CEO and Founder of Bicycle Health, a digital clinic to help people free themselves from opioid dependence.
In 2017, after spending time in an orthopedic clinic to learn more about pain management and opioids, Ankit founded Bicycle Health to increase access to high-quality, integrated medical and behavioral healthcare for people with opioid use disorder. Through a single app, Bicycle Health combines medication, behavioral healthcare, drug screening, therapy, and peer support.
Before Bicycle Health, Ankit co-founded Pulse News which was later acquired by LinkedIn, where he then served as Principal Product Manager.  He is also a co-founder of Docs and Hackers, a group of medical practitioners and software builders who aim to improve the practice of medicine with technology.
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Elevating Mental Health: Meru Health’s Kristian Ranta

In this episode, we speak with Kristian Ranta, CEO and Founder of Meru Health, an online holistic mental health provider.
In 2016, Kristian founded Meru Health after losing family members to mental health struggles and seeing so many others struggle. From these experiences, he learned that access to mental health care was severely lacking and the available care often didn’t work. His team felt that a more comprehensive, holistic approach could deliver better and faster results.
Meru Health is backed by Industry Ventures, Foundry Group and other notable investors.
Prior to Meru Health, Kristian Ranta was an advisor at Kaiku Health and Co-Founder of Mendor, a development company committed to improving the daily treatment of diabetes.
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Providing Lasting Healthcare Change: Omada Health’s Sean Duffy

In this episode, we speak with Sean Duffy, the Co-Founder and CEO of Omada Health, a virtual-first healthcare provider that nurtures lifelong health, one day at a time.
Since 2011, Sean and his team’s mission has been to inspire and enable people everywhere to live free of chronic disease. They do this by building digital health programs that are evidence-based, performance-priced, and designed to delight their users.
Omada is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Norwest Venture Partners, Fidelity, Wellington Management, and other notable investors.
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Transforming Brain Health: Linus Health’s David Bates

In this episode, we speak with David Bates, the Co-Founder and CEO of Linus Health, a digital health company focused on transforming brain health for people across the world.
In 2019, David and his team of individuals with exceptional backgrounds in neuroscience, clinical care, artificial intelligence, and enterprise software, created a digital platform that enables a future where people can live longer, happier, and healthier lives with better brain health.  The platform delivers a proven means of enabling early detection; empowers providers with actionable clinical insights and recommendations; and supports individuals with personalized action plans.
Before Linus Health, David founded Tamarisc Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm, as well as Bode, a tech-enabled hospitality company for group travel.
David supports TM City. To learn more about this organization click here.
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Reimagining Healthcare at Home: DUOS’ Karl Ulfers

In this episode, we speak with Karl Ulfers, the Co-Founder and CEO of DUOS, a technology-enabled service provider that connects people to the essential resources required to attain the highest level of health.
After personal experiences with his grandparent, Karl realized that healthcare was simply not optimized for the complexities of aging. Founded in 2021, DUOS was created to form trusted relationships with older adults using technology and community to support fulfilling lives at home.
Before DUOS Karl Ulfers was the CEO of Rally Health, where he started to notice the needs of the aging population. More than 20 million consumers currently have access to the Rally platform.
Karl supports Connection for a Cause and 612 Fastpitch.
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Mental Health Entrepreneur: Journey’s Stephen Sokoler

In this episode, we speak with Stephen Sokoler, the Founder and CEO of Journey, the leading proactive mental health solution for modern companies.
In 2015, Stephen founded Journey with the mission to help all people live happier, healthier, less stressed lives. Rooted in live group learning, peer support and proactive health, Journey provides the most engaging, cost-effective way to reduce turnover and tackle burnout.
Before Journey, Stephen Sokoler was the Co-Founder and CEO of Altrum Honors, the largest financial deal toy company in the world.
Stephen supports Partnership with Native Americans. To learn more about this organization click here.
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Data-Intelligence Leader: Alation’s Satyen Sangani

In this episode, we speak with Satyen Sangani, the Co-Founder and CEO of Alation, an enterprise software company, whose data catalog serves enterprises in organizing and consolidating their data. Nearly 600 global enterprises — including 40% of the Fortune 100 — rely on Alation to realize value from every data and AI initiative.
Alation is backed by Thoma Bravo, Riverwood Capital, Salesforce Ventures and other notable investors.
Since 2012, Satyen and his team have been passionate about helping enterprises create thriving data cultures where anyone can find, understand, and trust data. Prior to founding Alation, Satyen spent a decade at Oracle where he managed the financial services warehousing and performance management business.
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