Ellen DaSilva | Source | Founder and CEO at Summer Health
Ellen DaSilva
Ellen is the Founder and CEO of Summer Health. We’re on a mission to radically simplify access to healthcare. We offer message-based pediatric services within 15 minutes.
She was previously the Head of Business Development at hims&hers, focusing on strategic partnerships and growing the business. She is also an active angel investor as a Sequoia Scout in Seed and Series A consumer tech companies.
Ellen obtained her MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School. During her time at HBS, she was a Partner at Rough Draft Ventures, the pre-seed fund of General Catalyst. Prior to business school, she managed a unit of the Business Operations team at Twitter. Previously, she worked at Barclays Capital.
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Summer Health
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Mom Founder Uses Texting To Transform Kid’s Healthcare
Using texting to bring pediatricians together with the children who need them is an idea only a mom founder could come up with. And she did. Her startup is a new take on children’s healthcare.
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We've surveyed at least 250 pediatricians. Doctors expressed some concern about nurse-on-call services because they tend to send children to urgent care or the emergency room. They are expensive, time-consuming, and don't always have the right specialty. Pediatricians love our platform because other pediatricians are treating their patients.
