Tag: Health
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Meet U of Chicago Alum Suahn Hur, Co-Founder BARI
Tell us about your company: BARI is America’s first Asian baby food brand raising the standard of baby food with diverse food traditions, rigorous safety standards, and balanced nutrition. Founded by two sisters Subin and Suahn, BARI offers ready-to-eat meals, snacks, beverages, and first foods that goes beyond the purees. What inspired you to start…
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Meet USC alums Vem & Noy Chatoyan, Founders of StripIt
Tell us about your company: StripIt is reimagining the way people take supplements through oral dissolving strips that are simple, portable, and easy to work into everyday life. Instead of relying on traditional formats, our strips dissolve directly on the tongue in seconds. We developed each formula from the ground up with one goal in…
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Meet MSU alum: Mary Aipoalani, Founder PWR^UP
Tell us about your company: PWR^UP is the first collagen protein powder that turns functional nutrition into something people trust and crave. Forget boring snacks. Forget empty calories. No artificial ingredients/preservatives. Protein powered cocoa powder you can eat right out of the bag. PWR^UP is your delicious upgrade. Dip it, sprinkle it, blend it, and…
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Meet USC alum: Chloe Choi, Co-Founder MIILS
Tell us about your company: MIILS is a next-generation cereal protein shake brand to bring taste, convenience, and fun back into the protein aisle. We’re the first in the U.S. to launch single-serve, resealable pouches with real crunchy cereal inclusions inside. Our mission is simple: help busy, passionate, and successful people stay fueled with clean,…
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Meet UC Irvine and Loyola Marymount University alum: Staci DePatie, Founder GLUKI
Tell us about your company: GLUKI Inc., which is an AI companion MedTech app designed to support children and families living with type 1 diabetes. Through a gamified and engaging platform, GLUKI brings comfort, education, and connection into everyday life. The experience extends beyond the app with a companion plushie and additional comfort tools, all…
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Meet MSU alum Lekha Vyas, Founder of ELVY Lab
Tell us about your company: I’m an ex-L’Oréal and Estée Lauder executive with over 15 years in beauty and wellness, now building a new frontier in natural metabolic health. We’ve developed a patented oral dissolving strip, a natural GLP-1 alternative that mimics the effects of Ozempic and Mounjaro, but without injections or side effects. Our…
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Meet USC alum Mari Fassett, Founder Marimix
Tell us about your company: Marimix reimagines a nostalgic comfort-food with 100% clean ingredients and a fresh focus on inclusive nutrition: plant-based, gluten free, whole-grain and no artificial sugars, flavors or colors. We believe that wholesome food and whole-hearted fun deserve to go hand-in-hand, so we’re committed to making healthful everyday choices more accessible for…
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Meet Loyla Marymount University alum Ali Al-Faraj, Founder of Tru Cinnamon
Tell us about your company: Tru Cinnamon is the first cinnamon water brand—born from my own health journey. I was looking for a way to curb my caffeine intake, which was fueling anxiety, and to find a natural alternative to help support my high cholesterol. That search led me to Ceylon cinnamon, a plant long…
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Meet UCSB alum Jodie Dolan of DOLAN Scrubs
Tell us about your company: DOLAN makes the world’s best fitting medical scrubs. We leverage our 20 years design, manufacturing and expertise to create the highest quality and most comfortable scrubs on the market because the 15 million Americans who wear and buy scrubs everyday deserve to feel and look their best. We engineer scrubs…
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Meet UCLA alum Lizzie Brown, Founder of Yoga Wake Up
Tell us about your company: Yoga Wake Up transforms the way people start their day by offering a simple, mindful morning routine that promotes mental clarity and physical well-being. Our app delivers 10-minute audio-guided yoga and meditation sessions designed to help users wake up gently and with intention. As the first-ever yoga alarm clock app,…
