ENTREPRENEUR IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM

Yuri Tomikawa ’12 is the founder and former CEO of mental health company, Zencare. Yuri founded Zencare in 2015 after her own difficulty finding a therapist online. She bootstrapped the mission-driven company to thousands of therapists and therapy seekers before its acquisition in 2021. Learn more about Yuri here. 

Jayna Zweiman is an architecturally-trained multidisciplinary designer and social entrepreneur. Her independent practice combines architecture, art, craft and new media to focus on experiences that overlap physical, virtual and conceptual spaces. Her work is about civic intimacy, accessibility, and joy. Perhaps best known as the co-creator/co-founder of Pussyhat Project, an international network and movement of women’s rights supporters, Zweiman has become a leading advocate of using design innovation to enact social change. Learn more about Jayna here.

Riche Holmes Grant ’99 is the designer and executive producer behind The Riche Life inspirational web series for women and the founder of BambiniWare™ patented baby products. She is a Better Homes & Gardens Stylemaker and a content creator who has partnered with Martha Stewart, Real Simple, Williams Sonoma, Subaru, and The Home Depot. Read more about Riche here.

Lorine Pendleton ’91 is a seasoned business development executive with extensive experience in the legal, technology and entertainment industries. She is focused on investing and advising women and diverse-led businesses in order to level the playing field so women and diverse-led entrepreneurs have equal access to financial, social, and human capital. Read more about Lorine here.

Laura Thompson ’09 has spent the past decade working on radical innovations aimed at solving the world’s toughest problems. Laura was an early product lead at Google X, where she drove product strategy for science fiction-sounding technologies including self driving cars, smart contact lenses, and delivery drones. While at X, she spread the team’s learning in real-time, delivering more than 100 speeches to C-level audiences around the world to inspire other global leaders to pursue radical innovation. She was also featured in Forbes as one of the few female investors at Google Ventures. Prior to X, Laura spent several years in London spearheading Google’s first efforts in consumer electronics. Read more information in our announcement here.

Jessica Kim ’00 is the co-founder of ianacare, a virtual care team for caregivers. This new venture was sparked by her experience being a full-time caregiver for her mom battling cancer. At the age of 19, she started Jessica’s Wonders, a baked goods company, out of her college dorm room. She raised $1M in funding her senior year (with braces) and grew it to national distribution. From there, she worked at Kraft Foods in brand management. In 2008, Jessica founded BabbaCo to invest in the future of parenting by helping families spend quality time together through subscription activity boxes. BabbaCo was acquired in 2014 by Barefoot Books, where she served as President for two years before becoming an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at CRV. Jessica was honored as Crain’s Top 40 under 40 and currently serves as a Venture Partner at Praxis Labs, the inaugural EIR at Brown University, and an advisor to several startups. Jessica graduated from Brown University and received her MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. She lives in Boston with her three awesome children and husband, Peter. In 2019, Jessica was a recipient of the Barrett Hazeltine Entrepreneurial Mentoring Award. Read more here.