Alessandra Henderson

CEO & Co-Founder

Alessandra Henderson is the Co-Founder & CEO Of Elektra Health, a next-gen healthcare platform on a mission to smash the menopause taboo.
Elektra Health is empowering the 50M women currently navigating menopause in the US with evidence-based education, care & community. We’re bringing women’s health into the 21st century.
Since founding Elektra Health in 2019, Alessandra have raised over $4M in funding from investors including Alexis Ohanian's 776 Fund and Flare Capital Partners and have been featured in Fast Company, NY Times, Techcrunch, and Forbes.
She started her career in technology as the sixth employee at Artsy. Over the course of four years, As She built her content partner business from the ground up and saw Artsy grow from six employees to 75 employees with 2000+ partners in four continents.

After Artsy, Alessandra founded the MIT NYC Startup Studio and served as Executive Director. In this capacity, She created and led a rigorous three-month educational and mentorship-based accelerator experience for current MIT student entrepreneurs.
Alessandra also worked as VP of Network at Human Ventures, an NYC-based start-up studio that founds and builds consumer-facing technology with world-class entrepreneurs.
She hold a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Sloan MIT, where Alessandra received the Martin Trust Community Fellow Award '16 and the Patrick J. McGovern, Jr Entrepreneurship Award '16.
If you’re interested in learning more, follow me on LinkedIn, Twitter (@acphenderson), Medium (@acphenderson), or visit https://www.elektrahealth.

Talks About
#menopause #leadership #womenshealth #hormonehealth #entrepreneurship

Preferred Locations
#Northamerica