The Startup Ladies

✨ Wishing Our Startup Ladies Community Peace This Holiday Season ✨ As the year comes to a close, we want to take a moment to express our heartfelt gratitude to each of you. Your drive, courage, and unwavering support for one another make this community truly extraordinary. This holiday season, we hope you find moments of peace, reflection, and joy. Take time to rest, recharge, and dream boldly about the possibilities ahead. Together, we’ve accomplished so much, and we can’t wait to see what 2025 holds for you as individuals and for all of us as a united community. May your holidays be filled with laughter, love, and the quiet confidence that we’ll be here cheering you on in the New Year. Here’s to more growth, connection, and innovation in 2025! With gratitude and peace, The Startup Ladies Team ❤️

Startup Ladies Board member, Jon Gilman talking about the road he traveled to build his company and ultimately selling it to Microsoft. Jon is smart, kind, and lots of fun! Give it a watch.

Building a great startup company is hard work. It is so rewarding when you are able to deliver a product that provides meaningful diagnostic insights for patients and the clinicians that treat them. Any early warning sign opens a window to change the face of pancreatic cancer, and we are proud of our work to provide an innovative and highly accurate tool to determine risk of pancreatic cancer in patients diagnosed with Pancreatic Cystic lesions. Thank you Purdue Research Foundation Steve Martin Alicia South-Hurt, MS for all of your support. Special shout out to our Founder Vincent Jo Davisson Purdue University College of Pharmacy pictured with me here. Go team Amplified Sciences, Inc.! Kaleb Byers, PhD Rebecca Lyon MINI THOMAS, M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D. John Ridge Daniel Beck Kaitlyn Varela, PhD Mike Poderycki #diagnosticsispower #IVD #earlydetection #pancreatic

Need a mid-winter boost? Warm up & level up at our Members Only Hot Chocolate Break! ☕❄️ Over a cozy cup, check in, share challenges, and let us know how we can support you. ✨ 📅 This Wednesday, Feb. 19th ⏰ 3pm in-person / 6:30pm virtually 📍 DeBrand Fine Chocolates / Zoom 👇 RSVP at one of the links below! 👇 In Person: https://hubs.li/Q036W9kj0 Online via Zoom: https://hubs.li/Q036WcQC0

Roses are red, violets are blue, invest in women founders — it's the smart thing to do! 💞 Happy Valentine's Day from The Startup Ladies!

Congratulations to Michael Hatfield on exiting!!! You continue to inspire The Startup Ladies community with action. 👏 👏 👏

As Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Carium, I am delighted to share that Carium has been acquired by Healthmap Solutions, a leader in kidney population health management. This is a significant milestone in our journey to improve healthcare through technology and patient-centered care. At Carium, our founding mission was to create healthcare technology that supports the unique attributes, needs, habits, and goals of each person within their own health journey. Through the dedication and innovation of our exceptional team at Carium, we developed a comprehensive, virtual-care coordination solution.  We delivered on the quadruple aim of healthcare: lowering costs, improving outcomes, and enhancing experiences for both patients and providers. Our platform has been instrumental in supporting patients across various specialties, including chronic heart failure, bariatric and heart surgery, lifestyle medicine, and weight-loss management. Healthmap's expertise and innovations in collaborating with health plans, health systems, accountable care organizations, and provider groups to optimize care and outcomes for patients with kidney disease aligns strongly with Carium strengths. Carium has made positive impact on many disease-specific populations that overlap with the comorbidities affecting Healthmap’s kidney population. By integrating the Carium platform, Healthmap will enhance patient and provider engagement capabilities, leading to more personalized and effective care plans and outcomes. Thank you to all the current and past Carium team members that contributed to many meaningful improvements in healthcare. I am overwhelmingly grateful to all the healthcare organizations that worked closely with our Carium team to achieve advanced means of providing care. Together, we have helped enhance and extend lives. This Healthmap-Carium combination will continue to lead the way in transforming healthcare delivery. https://lnkd.in/g5N6jfAe

Jessica Owens and Iana Dimkova bring a unique combination of founder and funder experience to the table, making them perfectly positioned to drive innovation in the healthcare, technology, and life sciences sectors. 🔹 Jessica Owens co-founded GRAIL, which was acquired by Illumina for $8B in 2021, and was a Partner at Kleiner Perkins. 🔹 Iana Dimkova was a director at GE Ventures, where she helped a startup raise over $700M to build one of the largest radiation therapy networks in the U.S. With this powerhouse background, Jessica and Iana have now launched Initiate Ventures’s $45M debut fund. Their deep industry expertise and proven track record as both entrepreneurs and corporate investors lay the foundation for a fund that will empower early-stage health tech and life sciences companies raising Seed to Series A rounds. Through Initiate Ventures' startup studio model, they partner with entrepreneurs to launch and scale innovative companies, providing essential support in business development, talent acquisition, and fundraising. This is a game-changing moment in healthcare innovation, and Initiate Ventures is poised to lead the way in transforming the future of health tech and life sciences. 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/euf9Yu2m #LifeSciences #VentureCapital #HealthTech #WomenInVenture #TechLeaders #Fundraising #Innovation #Entrepreneurship

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