What Precision Medicine Has Been Missing: Kelly Lacob on Building Xella Health

from She Ventures Forward · host Natalie Abboud

In this episode of She Ventures Forward, Natalie sits down with Kelly Lacob, CEO and co-founder of Xella Health, the first precision healthcare platform built specifically for women..Kelly opens up about the real mechanics behind her $3.7M pre-seed raise: why going straight to institutional investors was a costly mistake, how she built a proof of concept with almost no money, what it took to grow a 10,000-person waitlist before launch, and the bold move of setting her own terms when no one wanted to lead.

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