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The Veyda Team
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Perspectives
The Humans Behind Veyda
Veyda runs on serious technology. It exists because of what the people here lived through first.
Ask anyone at Veyda why they are here, and technology will not come up.
What comes up is a mother’s emergency. Two surgeries before twenty-five. A years-long search to finally feel well. Records carried by hand from one specialist to the next, because if we did not carry them, nobody would. Nobody planned that. It kept turning out to be true, one of us at a time.
One record for your whole health, and an intelligence that reads all of it: that is what we build. This is who builds it, and why.
Everyone here arrived carrying something
Jayce Simpson, Co-Founder & CEO, was 22 when his mom had a ruptured brain aneurysm. Overnight he became her caretaker, her insurance advocate, and her records keeper, and every answer he found was a guess about people in general, never about her, because no single place held her whole story. Carrying her health cost him his own: high cholesterol, blood sugar close to pre-diabetic, nearly fifty pounds gained in a year. He had spent his career, from two startups out of high school to a decade with the City of West Hollywood, making complicated, sensitive information clear enough to act on. The information his family needed most was the one thing nobody could hand him.
Lukas Nouri, Co-Founder & COO, learned the same lesson as a patient. Two surgeries back to back in his early twenties, lower back and then hip, with imaging in one office, opinions in another, therapy somewhere else, and Lukas the only thread connecting any of it. He went into health because of that: first a hospital emergency room, where people arrived on the worst nights of their lives with their history sitting in places nobody could reach, then the preventive side as a trainer and coach, working from whatever a person could remember, because the history never followed them in.
Megan Walerius, Co-Founder, came to health as a seeker. She left a high-stress corporate career in search of something more fulfilling and spent years trying the best of what wellness has to offer, every solution and service in a quest to feel her best. That search became her life’s work in nutrition and wellness, and it taught her the flaw in all of it: every remedy worked alone, and nothing ever connected. Health was personal for her long before it was professional.
The room where care finally started to make sense
The three of them met at a leading integrated health and wellness facility, one of the first to put medical care, training, recovery, and nutrition under one roof. There they finally watched care work the way it should: clinicians, trainers, and nutritionists reading from the same picture of the same person. They also found its ceiling. It reached only the people who could walk through the door and afford it, for the hour they were inside. What that roof did for a few hundred people, they decided to build for everyone, for the other twenty-three hours of the day.
What the fifteen minutes cost
Dr. Jesus Juarez, Medical Director, has spent his career inside medicine, trained at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine and at Charles R. Drew University, with a background that runs through UCLA Health. His focus has always been the side of medicine that keeps people well, not only the side that treats them once they are not.
“You cannot understand a person from a fragment of their history, and a fragment is usually all any provider has. A fifteen-minute visit is not long enough to rebuild what was never assembled in the first place. Give a person a complete history that they own and that travels with them, and the fifteen minutes can finally be spent on care instead of catch-up.”
We've all lived it
The rest of the team you have already met, even if you do not know their names. When Veyda explains something in plain language, in the app, in an email, or right here, you are hearing Isabella Salant. When a screen feels calm even though the subject is not, or a graphic says in one glance what a page of numbers could not, that is Taylor Garber. Your record stays free, for life, because Joel Camacho makes the math hold. Cynthia Navis looks after our partnerships and the marketplace, and Sara Shibani keeps the whole operation running. None of them found this company by accident. Each has navigated health the hard way, in their own body or beside someone they love: hospital stays, injuries that lingered, wellness that would not come easy, minds that needed as much care as bodies. Nobody here needed the problem explained.
There is real intelligence inside Veyda. It can read decades of records in seconds and explain them in plain language, and we are proud of that. But the intelligence is not why Veyda exists. It exists because people who had lived the problem decided their families, and yours, deserved better.
Health is fragmented. Veyda connects it.
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The Protocol is general education, not medical advice.
Veyda is currently in private beta. Features and availability may change, and some features shown, including Veyda Concierge and Veyda Rewards, are coming soon. The Veyda Marketplace is launching with curated lab panels, available in California only at launch, with in-home blood draws for an added fee. Veyda is not a medical provider and does not provide medical care, diagnosis, or treatment. Veyda Intelligence provides understanding and guidance, never a diagnosis, and is not a substitute for professional medical advice; always talk to a qualified clinician about your health. Where relevant, our practices are HIPAA-aligned. Your record is never for sale, never used to train models, and never shared with third-party advertisers.