Fixing a broken system - Mahmee CEO Melissa Hanna on patient-centric maternal care | E1464
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Molly Wood sits down with Melissa Hanna, CEO and Co-Founder of Mahmee, a care network for parents (01:44), they discuss the impetus for Melissa launching the company (12:34), the challenges of bringing the product to market (22:08), how she built the network and more (37:29)!
(00:00) Molly tees up today’s episode
(01:44) Molly Wood sits down with Melissa Hanna, CEO and CoFounder of Mahmee, a care network for parents
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(12:34) Melissa on how the pandemic helped expose the need for a care service like Mahmee
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(22:08) The bittersweetness of it taking so long for this product to happen
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(37:29) How Mahmee built its network
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, everybody. Welcome back to this weekend's startups. It is Thursday. We're doing back-to-back |
| 0:04.8 | badass women interviews. Basically, we have an amazing interview today with Mommy, CEO, and |
| 0:09.8 | co-founder Melissa Hannah. She was on back in January 2020, right before the pandemic, |
| 0:16.3 | which changed everything for this business, which is focused on maternal health care and outcomes. |
| 0:22.0 | Today, she joined to talk about the $9.2 million series A that she just announced. It is an |
| 0:30.0 | incredible interview on a really, really important topic. You're going to love it. Stick with us. |
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| 1:45.1 | Melissa Hanna is CEO and co-founder of Mommy, which she started all the way back in 2014. |
| 1:50.5 | Melissa, thanks so much for coming back on Twist. Thank you. Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:55.0 | It's great to be back. And we're actually having you at a congratulatory moment, |
| 2:00.8 | which we're going to talk more about, but congratulations on your recent raise. Tell us the details. |
| 2:07.0 | Thank you so much. Yeah, it's quite a thrill. We closed our series A, led by Goldman Sachs |
| 2:16.1 | as a management team with participation from some of the bigger names on our cap table, |
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