Kara Egan

Kara Egan is the CEO and co-founder of Teal Health, a women’s health company working to make cervical cancer screening more accessible and convenient through at-home screening. As a CEO and mother of two, Kara is passionate about creating healthcare solutions that value women’s time and make care more equitable.

She has spent her career at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and startups, as a health tech investor at .406 Ventures, a software investor at Emergence Capital, and an operator at companies including Zendesk, Backupify (Datto), and Stitch Labs (Square).

Kara has been recognized as a TIME100 Health honoree, included on Fierce’s Fierce 50 list, named to Inc.'s Female Founders 500 list.. She earned her BS from Stanford University and MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a Kauffman Fellow and Dial Fellow. 

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