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.

Requirements

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.