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Today we want to highlight Sharon Samjitsingh, CEO and Co-Founder of Health Care Originals – the first asthma and COPD digital health solution and wearable to be validated by the Validation Institute..

Read on to learn more about Sharon and Health Care Originals (HCO)!

🩺 What They Do: Nearly 50 million Americans have Asthma, COPD, or both, and the costs of care keep rising. Health Care Originals is the first clinically-validated platform that enables patients to take control of their respiratory help. For health plans and employers, their platform reduces costs and increases member engagement, resulting in significant ROI per patient. For users, their personalized care model leads to fewer attacks, flare ups, and hospital visits.

🩺 Why They Do It: A proven leader in scaling businesses globally, Sharon has driven 20X revenue growth and managed a $150M innovation portfolio. Sharon started Health Care Originals because of her personal experience with asthma and seeing how it not only impacted her quality of life, but also those around her. After an early pivot, the team began to develop and deploy Nightingale, and within 6 months, the improvements in people’s lives, symptoms, and health were remarkable. Just recently Health Care Originals received confirmation from the Validation Institute that their program significantly improves users health-related quality of life. Sharon says it best herself “while our story isn’t finished, all of the roadside signs are pointing in the right direction”.

🩺 How We Met: When Chloe Capital launched Fund I, Sharon was one of the first pitches we heard. Chloe’s mission of inclusive ecosystem building deeply resonated and she knew she wanted to be a part of the movement. As Sharon says, “when we have our exit, I intend to invest”, an example of our founder to funder model in action.

🩺 Chloe Effect: Health Care Originals has both benefited from and given back to the Chloe ecosystem. Sharon thanks the Chloe team for “believing in us early on in our pivot, and always [being] willing to make introductions within their network”. At the same time, they actively engage with the other Chloe’s through the Slack channel and portfolio AMA sessions.

🩺 What is Next for HCO: Health Care Originals just launched their WeFunder campaign and has raised more than $125k in 7 days. They are on a mission to transform the $83B respiratory care market by making the management of asthma and COPD seamless. They’ve proven product-market fit and are well on their way to becoming the leading platform in respiratory care. If you’re interested in participating in their community round, and at a stage usually reserved for venture capitalists, you can reserve your investment here https://wefunder.com/hco.

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Learn more about Health Care Originals at https://healthcareoriginals.com/

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Today we want to highlight Claire Coder, CEO and Founder of Aunt Flow – designing a world where every bathroom outside the home offers free period products.

Read on to learn more about Claire and Aunt Flow!

🩸 What They Do: Aunt Flow provides free-vend dispensers stocked with tampons and pads for businesses and schools to make period products more accessible. They work with 900+ organizations including Phoenix Mercury, KIPP Schools, O’Hare International Airport, Google, and the University of California San Diego to name a few. 86% of women reportedly started their period in public without the supplies they needed. Providing Aunt Flow period products recuperates lost work hours, increases school attendance, and is just the right thing to do! 

🩸 Why They Do It: After getting her period in public without the supplies she needed, Claire thought to herself – toilet paper is offered for free, why aren’t tampons and pads? At that moment, she decided to drop out of college and start Aunt Flow at 18 years old. She’s been on a mission to ensure everyone has access to period products ever since. 

🩸 How We Met: We met Claire and the Aunt Flow team through introductions from Sharad Daswani at Spru Ventures and Jordan Barker at Bark Equities – both part of our extensive co-investor network. While many of our investments come through our accelerator programs, we also actively leverage our network to source investment opportunities that fit our investment thesis. 

🩸 Chloe Effect: Aunt Flow has engaged across the Chloe Capital ecosystem. The team has leveraged the Chloe network for numerous introductions to potential customers, advocates, and candidates. Claire says it best, “we are insanely grateful for their network!”. Additionally, Claire actively engages in the Slack community, where she can ask any question and receive support and advice from fellow portfolio founders. 

🩸 What is Next for Aunt Flow: Aunt Flow has recently made changes to its products and packaging to ensure they’re keeping menstruators – and the planet – front and center in all that they do. They have removed all plastic from their cartridge pad packaging and eliminated the paper branding strap on their cartridge pad bundles. In addition to the brand’s sustainability efforts, Aunt Flow is committed to supporting menstruators and increasing access to quality period care. With over two million students across the country relying on Aunt Flow’s period products in bathrooms across grade schools and universities, the brand decided to roll out 36-count boxes of tampons and pads to be sold online at goauntflow.com and on Amazon. Menstruators can now stock their homes with Aunt Flow’s well-loved pads and tampons. They also just launched their new complete sanitary disposal system, the combination of easily accessible plant-based disposal bags and designated touch-free bins promotes responsible disposal and increases hygiene for janitors and restroom users alike. The system also helps reduce environmental harm by keeping menstrual product waste out of our rivers and oceans through proper disposal.

Learn more about Aunt Flow at https://goauntflow.com/