Kate Condliffe on Accessible Maternity Care and the Future of Women’s Health

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Kate Condliffe, CEO & Co-Founder, Diana Health 
Kate co-founded Diana Health and serves as its CEO. Kate has spent the past two decades working with companies and governments to scale high value care models that improve outcomes and lower cost. Prior to starting Diana Health, Kate was the COO of Baby+Co, a network of freestanding birth centers, and before that was the COO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative. She holds a BA from Middlebury College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Payal Agrawal Divakaran, Partner, .406 Ventures
Payal is a Partner at .406 Ventures, where she co-leads the healthcare investing practice. .406 Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm with over $1.4B under management. Since its founding in 2005, .406 Ventures has never wavered from its strategy of investing in early-stage enterprise-focused startups in healthcare, data + AI, and cybersecurity.  Every member of the firm has deep operating or investing experience in these segments.

.406’s world-class founders and digital health companies are transforming healthcare technology and care delivery.  Payal leads .406’s investments in AristaMD, Diana Health, Equip, FamilyWell, Heartbeat Health, Humata Health, Nema Health, Nomad Health, OncoveryCare, and Wellist. She also supports Better Life Partners, Laudio, Redox, Wayspring, and WelbeHealth.

Before joining .406 in 2015, Payal co-founded a company called SpotRocket while at Harvard Business School (HBS).  Prior to that, she worked at Eventbrite, Spectrum Equity, and J.P. Morgan. Payal received her MBA, with Distinction, from HBS and her BS in Electrical Engineering and minor in Management from MIT. She is a Boston native and Boston sports fan. She and her husband and two kids live in Brookline.