The Business of Better Women's Healthcare with Dr. Somi Javaid

Her Time, Her Health with Dr. Jila · Jul 8, 2026 · 30m

NEVER GIVE UP YOUR CEO SEAT

Dr. Somi Javaid just dropped the REAL truth about raising $40M, selling her company, and what she'd do differently 💰

Here's what 10+ years of building in women's health taught her:

✨ Stay scrappy & self-funded as LONG as possible

✨ Pick investors like life partners (because they are)

✨ Healthcare needs providers + VCs + patients TOGETHER

✨ The lonely truth? Leadership can be isolating AF

✨ Nobody knows your business better than YOU

The biggest regret? Giving up her CEO seat when she became CMO 👑

From raising capital as part of the 0.4% of WOC securing VC funding to…