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startups across various industries—most meaningfully in ecommerce. I joined Maven after I was introduced to our CEO and founder, Kate Ryder, by an individual in the investment community who was familiar with my work. I joined after I acutely felt the challenges of being a working parent after having my first child in spring of 2021. I certainly get why people—particularly women— leave the workforce when they have a child, and I felt inspired and motivated to make a bit of a career change. I’m able to leverage my functional expertise in launching and scaling high-growth commercial teams, but I’m doing it in an industry that felt much closer to home given my own experience. I am an incredibly ambitious and driven individual, and I thought if I’m struggling to do this, how can other people do this? Tell us what your company does. Maven is the world’s largest virtual clinic for women’s and family health. Our technology platform offers 24/7 virtual care, easy financial reimbursement, peer communities, and concierge support to members across our fertility, family-building, pregnancy, parenting, pediatrics, and menopause programs. We cover over 15 million lives across 175 countries.
ISHA VIJ VICE-PRESIDENT EMPLOYER SALES, MAVEN CLINIC mavenclinic.com Tell us about the journey that led you to Maven Clinic. I serve as the VP of Employer Sales here at Maven Clinic. My job is to oversee our sales team that works with employers across the world and helps bring Maven to them and shares who we are, what we do, and how we can help their employee base navigate all things family-building and family benefits. I got here through kind of an interesting path. I have been at Maven for just over a year and have spent the majority of my career working in high-growth
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How does your service address the pain points of your customers? Starting and growing a family is an incredibly personal and complicated journey. Even if you have the easiest pregnancy or have the easiest time getting pregnant, there are a lot of things that happen in starting and growing a family that people just don’t talk about. Our health care system, in particular in the United States, does a pretty poor job of helping people navigate this life stage physically, mentally, and financially. Maven fills these gaps through our virtual care platform that brings high-quality, incredibly culturally appropriate care to the palm of your hands in a matter of minutes. Real-time care when you need it is something that you know we are able to do regardless of where you are in your life journey. Maven seeks to be that trusted advisor and guide. Maven is the only platform to offer an end-to-end solution, from preconception, family building, fertility, and maternity to parenting, pediatrics, and menopause. For instance, 58% of Maven’s surrogacy members need