
← Brilliant Commerce7 Oct · 24 min
Why community and education became Evvy's entire growth engine
<p>Women weren't required in US clinical research until 1993.<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pjain16"> <u>Priyanka Jain</u></a> built a company to close that gap. Evvy now holds the world's largest real world data set on the vaginal microbiome.</p><p>Priyanka tells Bryan Mahoney how community and education became Evvy's entire acquisition strategy, why AI driven search changes how patients find care, and what she thinks is harder, raising money as a female founder or building a brand new category.</p><p> </p><p>Topics discussed:</p><p>- Building a category around an overlooked female biomarker data set</p><p>- Turning education and community into Evvy's core acquisition strategy</p><p>- Why AI powered search is reshaping healthcare discovery</p><p>- Fundraising as a founder versus creating a brand new category</p><p>- Evvy's prospective study using microbiome testing inside IVF clinics</p><p>- Serving 100,000 patients and 2,000 doctors nationwide</p><p>- Overcoming imposter syndrome by assembling experts instead of becoming one</p><p>- The venture funding gap facing women's health founders today</p><p><br></p>