Founding Associate, Hesta Labs

Founding Associate, Hesta Labs

Own the delivery of Hesta Labs' £1.4m R&D programme, moving between clinical, technical, regulatory and commercial work streams to solve whatever's in the way. You'll work directly with our founders and clinicians, shaping the roadmap as we build the evidence base for women's health.

Location

Location London (hybrid) - 2 to 3 days in our office in Victoria

Contract type

Contract type Permanent

Hesta is creating a new benchmark in women’s health, delivering exceptional care at every life stage. As we advance towards this goal, we are committed to closing the women’s health gap, beginning with pregnancy and postnatal as our initial focus. 75 million years of women’s lives are lost every year due to poor health or early death. This gap limits potential, drives inequality, and reflects a healthcare system that wasn’t built for women.

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Hesta is setting a new benchmark in women's health, delivering exceptional, evidence-based clinical care at every life stage, starting with pregnancy and the two years after birth. We combine compassionate care with technology built at the forefront of AI-native healthcare.

75 million years of women's lives are lost every year to poor health or early death. Not because these conditions are rare, but because almost no one has been paid to look into them properly. We're changing that.

We raised our pre-seed round last year, alongside grant funding to launch Hesta Labs. Within months of founding we ope rationalised a CQC-registered multidisciplinary healthcare service, have already cared for hundreds of women, and been featured in The Times.

Cofounders:

Dr Sujitha Selvarajah: NHS OBGYN doctor with a global public health background. Has worked with the WHO and The Lancet, and is an ex-researcher at Oxford and UCL.

Amanda Cupples: ex-Managing Director, Airbnb UK, Northern Europe and MEA; ex-COO, Babylon; ex-McKinsey and Deluxe.

Supported by world-leading clinical, product and technology advisors, and backed by investors including Eka, Blue Lion, Ascension and others.

What women who've used Hesta are saying:

Surpassed any expectations. Highly recommend.

I have never felt this listened to or heard by a GP before. I felt very empowered and supported.

What clinicians, including GPs, are saying:

This is so good. Women won't even need to see the GP with this. This is even better than most GPs.

We're early-stage: genuine ownership, genuine impact, and the chance to build something that doesn't exist yet, that changes millions of lives.

Hesta Labs is Hesta's research and development arm, backed by £1.4m in grant funding.

In health, there are only two categories of things: what we know, and what we don't. The second category in women’s health is a chasm. Women weren't required to be included in clinical trials until the early 1990s, and even now, only a sliver of health research funding goes towards conditions that affect women specifically..

Hesta's core service proves that operationalising the known changes lives today. But we've come to believe something else just as firmly: you cannot ope rationalise your way out of a gap this size. If the evidence was never built, the data never captured, the solutions never tested, somebody has to go and build it. That's what Labs is for.

We tested that belief before we committed to it. Using an Innovate UK grant, we ran a feasibility study with Modality Partnership, delivering care to hundreds of women across East Surrey, Yorkshire and Birmingham, and asked three questions: is this clinically valuable, is this technically possible, and do women actually love it? We found yes, yes and yes.

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