2024 Raven Cohort

Elizabeth Uslander, MSW MTS is at the helm of the movement to humanize healthcare by empowering patients and families in palliative, end of life, grief and spiritual care. As the Co-founder of Empowered Endings Medical Group, Institute, Management Services Organization, and Foundation, she works to fill gaps in traditional healthcare and facilitate paradigm shifts in her fields of expertise.

Following her early spiritual awakening and extensive experience in spiritual care, social work, education and advocacy, Elizabeth developed a model of care that combines deep interpersonal relationships with a unique blend of psychology, philosophy, and spiritual practices that support healing as she guides clients through the challenges of life’s major transitions. She founded Voyages to offer transformational support not traditionally available in the modern medical model.

Elizabeth is a multilingual, intuitive community creator with a love of travel, family, and art. She earned her Bachelor of Arts cum laude with distinguished honors from Georgetown University before going on to receive her Master of Social Work cum laude with distinguished honors from University of Southern California, and her Master of Theological Studies from Wesley Theological Seminary.

ENTERPRISE(S)
Prior to becoming a social entrepreneur, Elizabeth served communities through the United States as a multilingual spiritual director, chief operations officer, medical practice director, hospice and home health social worker, bereavement counselor, volunteer coordinator, research assistant, executive administrative assistant, elementary school teacher, community resource liaison, and healing arts practitioner. She also serves and has served on executive boards in the fields of end of life care, education, and human rights advocacy.

LINKS
empoweredendings.com elizabethuslander.com

Recognizing the shortcomings of the U.S. healthcare system and the opportunities made possible by advances in mobile technology, Dr. Avinesh Bhar left his office to focus on establishing a telemedicine practice founded on high-value and personalized, convenient and cost-effective sleep and pulmonary care.

Dr. Bhar is a fellowship-trained and board-certified in sleep and pulmonary medicine. He has been in practice for over seven years following the completion of his fellowships at Washington University in St Louis and the University of Tennessee, Memphis. He also holds a MBA from the University of Chicago.

Dr. Bhar loves soccer, plays tennis and is active on Twitter.

ENTERPRISE(S)
SLIIIP is an integrated sleep and pulmonary telemedicine practice that delivers physician-led, patient-centered care—from initial evaluation and testing to treatment and follow-up.

We provide online video consultations, by board-certified physicians, along with home sleep studies and CPAP equipment. Your sleep doctor can manage all facets of sleep and pulmonary care, conveniently and compassionately, to ensure that you get the care you need and deserve.

SLIIIP provides an unmatched direct-to-consumer experience by managing all facets of care, conveniently and compassionately. We are able to deliver specialty care in the comfort of your home or office.

We provide video consultations and follow up care for sleep and pulmonary issues. We also provide home sleep studies, CPAPs, and oral appliance therapy.

Providing you with the right care is the only way we do things.

LINKS
https://www.sliiip.com/

Paul Chen is the CEO and co-founder of Neumetry Medical Inc, a Medical SaaS startup that leverages waveform AI/Machine Leaning to build a personalized predictive healthcare cloud. Under his leadership, the company bootstrapped the development of its Sleep AI Software as a Medical Device and secured FDA 510(K) clearance in just 15 months.

Previously, Paul founded a software company with backing from prominent VC firms in the US, Japan, and Malaysia, known for its cutting-edge video indexing system, leading to a buyout.

Prior to the entrepreneurial journey, Paul worked as a cloud architect on Wall Street, providing cloud consulting services to a range of global financial and pharmaceutical companies, including JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, UBS, Pershing, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. He also worked as a senior security consultant for Merrill Lynch, ING Barings, and Dow Jones, where he was responsible for the design and development of security products and tools.

He is a highly skilled and experienced entrepreneur and technologist, with a deep understanding of the healthcare industry and a passion for using AI and machine learning to drive innovation and improve patient outcomes.

ENTERPRISE(S)
Neumetry is a pioneer in personalized predictive care using the Universal Health Waveform (PPG, EEG, ECG, PSG, EOG, EMG etc.) Cloud to turn heart and sleep data into health intelligence for remote monitoring and diagnosing.

LINKS
https://www.neumetry.com

With over 30 years of experience in the events and entertainment industry, Mark has been creating impact for community through immersive and visionary projects. His passion is leading strategy and partnerships, and creating win-win relationships that leverage technology, gamification, psychology, and live immersive experiences. He’s been blessed to work with world-class artists, brands, tours, tech, and partners to deliver captivating virtual and in-person adventures that generate resources for good.

As with most lifelong entrepreneurs who had to get their feet wet in nearly every aspect of their businesses, Mark’s competencies include management, marketing, communications, sales, strategic partnerships, new media, production, and innovation. He has a proven track record built on a rich and diverse series of career paths. This includes building world class events ranging from televised professional sports tours to prestigious corporate experiences and music and arts festivals. Additionally, Mark helped to launch four non-profits and served as an active board member and advisor to others. He is also a Strategic Intervention Leadership and Relationship Coach, helping individuals and teams overcome self-limiting beliefs and become more joyful, heart-centered, and productive.

A passionate psychedelic and holistic medicine and personal transformation advocate, Mark occasionally curates retreats, masterminds and hosts sacred plant medicine experiences.

Mark is driven by the mission of building a more conscious, connected, loving, and abundant world where community and deeply immersive experiences are at the core. He has learned far more from my failures than my successes which has helped him to become invaluable to other start-up founders and teams that he consults.

ENTERPRISE(S)
Founder / Partner / Chief Dream Engineer at DEED Entertainment

Currently Start-up Consulting for 4 innovative tech companies in early stage.

Chief Business Development Officer with United Independents and INC ’24

LINKS
www.deedentertainment.com
https://www.independents.win and https://www.inc24.us

Nick did movie advertising in Los Angeles.

Then moved to Cambridge MA and has helped science and engineering startups communicate their messages for the last 15 years.

The theater of presentation is fun. And the adherence to honesty is refreshing.

It became meaningful work working with founders and helping relatively small groups of people get investors and customers. (Typically from Seed to Series A)

So here we are today, I am a father of two little children, which is a pleasure. And I've resisted growing my business beyond myself, a personal tension that I would like to explore in this group, and share whatever positioning/design advice I may have to offer with others.

ENTERPRISE(S)

Nickolas Peter - a design consultancy focusing on brand, web, and decks for startups. Running for 15 years.

Curious Sound Objects - started as a series of art shows, and became a fun side project making pocket-sized electronic music toys.

LINKS

www.nickolaspeter.com

www.curioussoundobjects.com

Skylar is a dynamic individual committed to authenticity and continuous growth. She is passionate about creating spaces for people to flourish. In her free time, Skylar enjoys the vibrant world of neon and leads a multifaceted life as an alternative lifestyle community leader, event coordinator, photographer, burlesque performer, mentor, and educator. She hosts various local support groups, including those for women in tech and the queer community.

Skylar's professional journey reflects her creativity and diverse interests. A proud law school dropout, she pursued International Relations with a focus on Human Rights and Counterterrorism policy planning during her undergraduate studies. Skylar ventured into blockchain in 2018 through gaming and eventually co-founded Community Gaming, a web3-enabled esports platform. She operated as Chief of Staff to the CEO, playing a pivotal role in their fundraising efforts, building operations, and organizing over 1000 events, including the first-ever blockchain gaming World Championship held in Barcelona. Her time at CG extended beyond large-scale events; she built and actively contributed to the Play-To-Learn Foundation. She and her team were able to support organizations worldwide, empowering them to leave oppressive work environments and establish esports communities while incorporating blockchain technology.

ENTERPRISE(S)
Her latest venture is as a co-founder and COO of Coinsub, where she is dedicated to long-term growth. Coinsub is at the forefront of transforming the payments landscape, driven by the belief that blockchain tokenized assets will become a widely accepted currency. With a mission to capture a significant share of the $3 trillion payments market, Coinsub serves as critical infrastructure in the evolving digital economy, enabling crypto as a viable payment option through innovative blockchain technology.

LINKS
coinsub.io

CMO of Koda Health. Dr. Desh Mohan earned his MD at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, and completed his residency at Baylor College of Medicine. He currently practices as a board-certified Internal Medicine physician and hospitalist. Dr. Mohan has delivered culturally competent care in health systems across the U.S., working at eight hospitals in many diverse communities.

In addition to his hospital roles, Dr. Mohan has been a volunteer organizing medical relief trips to Haiti and participating in health education and public health initiatives in the US, India and Tanzania.

ENTERPRISE(S)
The advance care discussion doesn’t have to be difficult, delayed, or disconnected. What used to be the sole domain of pricey lawyers and the inconvenient notary process can now be simply and easily done through Koda: online and at home and with your physician’s input, if desired. No more awkward talks and unrealistic concepts of “the end”. We created Koda to be a better guide from the beginning.

LINKS
https://www.kodahealthcare.com/