Jessica Kim

Venture Partner at Praxis

Jessica Kim is the Co-Founder & CEO of ianacare, which is on a mission to encourage, empower, and equip family caregivers. It is one platform that organizes and mobilizes all the support and social determinants of health. At the age of 19, she started Jessica's Wonders, a baked good company, out of her college dorm room, raised $1M her senior year, and grew it to national distribution. She then worked at Kraft Foods in brand management. In 2008, Jessica launched BabbaCo to invest in the future of parenting 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 (EIR) at Charles River Ventures. She was honored as Crain's Top 40 under 40, Women in Digital Health Award, and the inaugural EIR at Brown University. She graduated from Brown University and has an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. She lives in Boston with her three children and husband, Peter. She is a caregiver for her dad.

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