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Ellen Dasilva

Founder of Summer Health

New York, New York

Overview 

Ellen DaSilva is the Founder and CEO of Summer Health, with a background that includes roles at prestigious companies like Sequoia Capital and Twitter. She has successfully invested in companies like Local Laboratory Corp and Ethel's Club, showcasing her expertise in venture capital and strategic partnerships.

Work Experience 

  • Founder, CEO

    2021 - Current

    Backed by Sequoia Capital, Lux Capital, 7wireVentures, Box Group, Chelsea Clinton’s Metrodora Ventures, Pivotal Ventures, Springbank Collective, Operator Collective, and a great group of angels, our mission is to radically simplify access to care. Join us today. www.summerhealth.com

Summer Health is a pediatric telehealth startup.

Raised $19,150,000.00 from Lux Capital, Sequoia Capital, 7wire Ventures, Shrug Capital, BoxGroup, Leaps by Bayer, Metrodora Ventures and Pivotal Ventures.

  • Scout

    2020

    Investment scout focusing on early-stage consumer products. Investor in: Fortuna Health, Levels, Conceive, ShopCanal, Alloy Automation, Upstream, Candor, Photon, Dopt, WellTheory, Pawp

Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.

  • Head of Strategic Partnerships

    2020 - 2021

    Focus on healthcare partnerships for hims&hers

  • Director, Business Development

    2018 - 2020

Hims is a wellness brand that helps men and women get access to products for skin care, hair loss, and sexual health.

Raised $233,200,000.00 from Franklin Templeton.

  • Partner, West Coast Lead

    2016 - 2019

    Meetingbird (YC, Exit Front App), Ribbon Health (YC), Zorpads, Noken Travel, Mayflower, and others

  • Manager, Business Operations

    2012 - 2016

    Managed team of business associates. Consulted sales and business development leadership on market opportunities and business strategy; implemented initiatives to scale the revenue organization from $100M to $2bn+ annually. Led several of Twitter's international GTM expansion efforts. Spent the summer of 2016 working at Periscope, Twitter's streaming video platform.

X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.

Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.

  • Analyst, Equity Syndicate

    2010 - 2012

    Focused on public stock offerings: IPOs, follow-ons and convertible issuance

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