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Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is executive founder of the Way to Wellville, a 10-year nonprofit project devoted to showing the value of investment in community health (not health *care*) in a way that returns profits to investors and payers, and health to participants and communities. Wellville advises the five US-based Wellville communities in accelerating their own health initiatives, in Clatsop County, OR; Lake County, CA; Muskegon County, MI; North Hartford, CT; and Spartanburg, SC. Dyson is the W2W lead for Muskegon, and sets overall policy and fundraises for the project. Aside from that full-time role, Dyson spends the other 50 percent of her time with investments including 23andMe , 4D Health, Big Health, Care.Coach, Clover Health, Dopamine Labs, Eligible, Enso, Hawthorne Effect, Health Loop, HealthCelerate, HealthTap, i2Dx, Joany, Medesk, mEquilibrium, Nanowear, Nuna, Omada Health, PatientsLikeMe, PatientsKnowBest, Prognos, Proofpilot, Resilient, StartupHealth, Syllable, Sync Project, Tocagen, Turbine.ai, Valkee, Wellpass and Zipongo.