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.
