Entrepreneur in Residence - Gestational Diabetes Screening Startup

Entrepreneur in Residence One Health Studio · a venture studio of Alloy Partners Location: Indiana. Remote-friendly, with regular studio time in Indianapolis Type: Full-time, ~6 months contract with high potential to transition into full time co-founder role Compensation: $12,500 per month  The Opportunity Gestational diabetes affects roughly 1 in 10 pregnancies in the U.S. every year, and the number is rising — up 36% since 2016. The screening process hasn’t meaningfully changed in fifty years: an overnight fast, a sugary drink most women describe as disgusting, and one to three hours in a doctors office for blood draws. It's burdensome, inequitable, and it still misses up to a fifth of true cases. We think that's a venture-building opportunity. One Health Studio is recruiting an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) to incubate a new company — working title Sugar Mommas — built around continuous glucose monitors (CGM) and a standardized glucose challenge, delivered as an OB/GYN-ordered kit a woman completes at home. This isn't a research fellowship or an advisory seat. It's the real thing: pressure-test the thesis, validate it fast with real patients and payers, and build a company from the ground up. The concept isn’t a blank page. We’ve done the early opportunity framing — a clinical evidence review across 20+ peer-reviewed studies, a validated two-track regulatory strategy from outside health-law counsel, an active partnership conversation with the leaders in CGM and Medicaid MCOs. What's missing is a builder to take it from a validated thesis to a launched company. What You'll Do In the first 90 days Develop a sharp founding thesis on the GDM screening and diagnosis landscape — where the real opportunity is, and why now Run rapid, rigorous customer and clinical discovery: patients, OB/GYNs, maternal-fetal medicine specialists, payers, and health systems Stress-test the two-track regulatory strategy (wellness positioning now, De Novo SaMD clearance in parallel) alongside Alloy's regulatory counsel Map the competitive and startup landscape to confirm where a new company can win Reach a go/no-go decision on the core concept, grounded in real evidence rather than the existing business case alone As the company takes shape Define the initial product scope and clinical protocol (CGM + glucose challenge + provider workflow) Own and advance the corporate partnership pipeline — Dexcom, Eli Lilly, Abbott, and Medicaid MCOs, Brazilian Ministerio de Saude — from technical conversation to signed terms Recruit technical and clinical co-founders with complementary depth Build early relationships with design partners and clinical validation sites Lead the Series Seed fundraise with One Health Studios' co-investment and support Earn the opportunity to lead the venture through spin-out as Co-Founder, subject to milestone achievement and mutual conviction You won’t be doing this alone. One Health Studios' venture-build team is alongside you at every stage — from whiteboard to launch. There's no single path to this role. But here's what matters, A founder's track record, first and foremost. You've founded a company, led a product from zero, or run a commercial launch end-to-end. You know what early-stage actually feels like — the ambiguity, the resourcefulness, the pace. This matters more than any specific domain background, because domain gaps can be augmented; the ability to build something from nothing largely can't be taught in six months. If your title wasn't literally "Founder" or "CEO" but you effectively built and owned a product or business inside a company at the right stage, we want to hear about it. Real DTC or consumer health experience, ideally paired with women's health. You've built acquisition funnels, grown an owned audience, or converted and retained customers who bought because of a message you crafted. Direct experience in women's health, femtech, or maternal health is a strong plus on top of that — clinical, operational, commercial, or lived — but it's the consumer-building instinct itself that's hardest to substitute for. Comfort selling into or working through Medicaid, health systems, or payer channels. Medicaid covers roughly half of U.S. births, and this business will need to move through that system — whether that's a health plan, a network of OB/GYN practices, or a public payer. We're not looking for a policy expert; we're looking for someone who's navigated that kind of channel complexity firsthand and sees it as defensible ground, not a wall. Deep regulatory and reimbursement expertise is available to you through the studio's advisor network. Technical fluency, direct or by proxy. You're either technical yourself (engineering, product, data) or you've worked closely enough with technical teams to hire, manage, and partner with them — and you won't outsource your judgment on whether the product actually works. Speed and clarity under ambiguity. Several foundational pieces of this business are still open — including which device partner we work with and how the kit gets manufactured and fulfilled. You'll be expected to help resolve real unknowns like these, not execute against a fully specified plan. A real point of view on health equity. Gestational diabetes disproportionately affects women of color, low-income mothers, and rural communities with limited specialty access. You understand why that matters — as a moral imperative and as a market signal.