Welfie Founder, Dr. Steven Moyo Wins Visible Hands Fellowship

San Diego, September 13, 2021: Dr. Steven Moyo, founder of Welfie, a startup that connects schools that serve vulnerable communities with the medical care and education they need, has been awarded a Fellowship by Visible Hands. Visible Hands is an investment firm with a 14-week full-time fellowship program that supports underrepresented talent in building technology startups by providing company building services and investments of up to $200k.

‍With the vision of narrowing the VC funding gap, Visible Hands aims to help create hundreds of companies led by underrepresented founders. Through this full-time Fellowship, Visible Hands brings together “44 of the most brilliant entrepreneurial minds” and help them build impactful companies by providing them with the connections, resources, and investment they need to grow their startups.

“Welfie’s is a Black and women-led. We know how much higher the bar is set for founders like us,” explained Dr. Steven Moyo, a Johns Hopkins-trained Hospital Internist. “To be amongst other founders and investors with shared values and experiences is uplifting and inspiring.”

Welfie exists to bring health equity to those who need it most, especially Black and Brown people. Welfie’s founders are two black doctors, Doctor Steve Moyo, a hospital internist and Dr. Nneka Edwards, a pediatrician, who tired of seeing people who looked like them die younger and sicker. They are joined by Susan McLennan who, with her husband, creates Emmy Award winning content and brand building campaigns, particularly in the children’s space. Welfie has stepped into the fight against COVID by offering culturally sensitive testing, vaccine tracking, contact tracing, along with symptom, testing and modified quarantine tracking.

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Susan McLennan
Welfie Co-Founder & CMO
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