The Helpsy Story
Our Founder, Sangeeta started her career as a software engineer in Silicon Valley, working for companies including IBM, Motorola/Google, and then developing first mobile video platform at a startup later acquired by Skype. While she achieved major professional success, her health started to affect and limit quality of her personal and professional life. In search of solutions to regain her full health, she started adopting, experimenting and learning various health care modalities. This led her needing more than taking medications and regular doctor visits, but moving beyond to focus on all aspects of her physical and emotional health.
She found her home in two key terms Quality of Life and Integrative Medicine. As she found ways to empower herself to be healthy and happy, she decided to devote her life to empowering everyone to living their best quality of life. She studied integrative medicine by studying, practicing and conducting research in both eastern and western medicine. She spent the next decade as a researcher, oncology nurse and integrative medicine practitioner at institutions including the Mayo Clinic, Stanford Cancer Center, and UCSF Cancer Center serving the community. She still found that most people continued to struggle with health and quality of life issues and access to such solutions was limited. Inspired to create a solution that can be accessible to all, Sangeeta created Helpsy, a platform that brings together health care experts from all evidence based health care modalities, researchers and health care centers to combine their efforts together to offer an all-in-one interdisciplinary health solution to treat all aspects of health. Our solution is ready to help everyone live their life to the fullest.
Mission
Our mission is to empower people to have the best health outcomes possible while living their life to the fullest. We want to bring together everyone on a single platform to enable this mission.
Our Values
We like to describe our Values at Helpsy using the Heart, Head and Habit framework.
Head
While Helpsy is focused on getting people to live their best quality of life, we believe that this should be enabled by using evidence-based modalities. Clinical evidence plays an important role in shaping our product starting from incorporating ranking of therapies in our search algorithm to assembling recommendations in our databases. In order to help expand the pipeline of research in integrative medicine, we are enabling practitioners to conduct their own research studies using our platform.
Heart
At the heart of our business is the goal to help people reach their peak performance or live their best quality of life. To achieve this goal, we believe that when people need treatment for a condition, it is often a multifaceted need. So we provide people with access to a licensed providers from different healing modalities to help them get the care they need to heal body and mind and achieve peak performance.
Habit
The habit we employ to bring the head and heart together is that of orchestration. We want to facilitate the emergence of a new healthcare ecosystem by connecting experts, patients and centers using our platform.
Our Core Team
Sangeeta Agarawal, RN, MSCEO and Founder
Sangeeta has been an engineer for 9 years at companies such as IBM and Motorola and a nurse for 7 years at Mayo Clinic, Stanford and UCSF. She is the Founder, CEO and the vision behind Helpsy.
Greg Chin, MSQA, Operations, Pilots, Research
Greg holds advanced degrees in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley. At Helpsy, he heads our Q/A effort as well as the coordination and execution of our operations, funding, and clinical pilots.
Gurgen Gharibyan, B.TechTechnical Architect
Gurgen has over 6 years of experience and technical leadership in software development projects for small to medium-sized companies. As the technical architect, Gurgen ensures that we are building a solid and scalable product.
Sasha Stepanyan, Ph.D Database
Sasha brings over 9 years of web development experience to Helpsy. He is responsible for the database of the Helpsy software platform.
Lekshmi Raveendranath, M.Tech Mobile App
Lekshmi has over 6 years of experience in software and iOS app development for small to large-sized companies. She is responsible for development of the Helpsy mobile app.
Our Advisors
Ann Equity Fonfa
President, Annie, Appleseed Cancer, Patient Advocate
Steve Tablak
CEO, GeneWeave Biosciences, Inc.
Dr. Larry Chu
Executive Director,
Stanford Medicine X
Stephanie Marrus
Director of the Entrepreneurship Center, University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Aras N. Mattis
Assistant Professor, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
Geri Lynn Baumblatt
Executive Director of Patient Engagement,
Emmi Solutions
Recent Updates
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October 1st, 2017
Catch Helpsy Founder and CEO, Sangeeta Agarawal, at the Society for Integrative Oncology 14th Annual Conference in Chicago, IL from November 12th to the 14th. Read More
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October 6th, 2017
Helpsy Founder and CEO, Sangeeta Agarawal has been selected to attend the Eight Annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad, India from November 28th to November 30th. Read More
Good health is within your reach. We are here to empower you throughout your journey
- By Sangeeta Agarawal