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repost from late last bread
Jills list bought out.
Then holistic doctor start dropping like flies
In the last year from the dying doctor article would be ~2015
http://archive.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2013/05/alternative_medicine_directory.html
Alternative medicine directory Jill's List acquired by California-based Mindbody
Posted by Scott Kirsner May 14, 2013 01:00 PM
How's this for crazy timing?
Jill Shah had just sold her Back Bay startup, Jill's List, on April 15th. The money had just hit her bank account. She hadn't even had a chance to tell her seven employees about the sale yet when she heard two explosions nearby; Shah's company is located on Boylston Street, in between where the first and second bombs went off on Marathon Monday.
Shah's two kids had come into the office with their nanny to have lunch with her. "I had figured I would pull everyone together for a toast after lunch," she says. Instead, thinking that buildings nearby had been blown up, Shah, her kids, and her team evacuated their building at 726 Boylston and went home. "We weren't in the office for a week," she says.
Things have settled down considerably since Shah's somewhat atypical acquisition experience last month. She's now running the Boston office of Mindbody, a California company that sells web-based software to fitness studios, salons, and other wellness-oriented businesses to help them manage their businesses. Jill's List had created a network of more than 4,000 alternative medicine practitioners like acupuncturists and masseuses, and helped employees with flexible spending accounts or health savings account find the right practitioner for their needs, book appointments, and track payments. Employers pay a monthly fee to give their employees access to the Jill's List network.
Jill's List had created a partnership with Mindbody prior to the acquisition. "Their software helps practitioners run their businesses, and we've been trying to feed those practitioners into corporate America," Shah says. "We're also focused on ways to help doctors write orders for things like acupuncture or yoga as easily as they can write an order for a blood test or a CT scan."
"Our thesis is all about the convergence of healthcare and wellness," says Mindbody CEO Rick Stollmeyer, who is planning his first visit to the Boston office this Friday. Jill's List is the company's second acquisition so far; Shah will be senior vice president of what is being rebranded as the Mindbody Wellness Network. The acquisition price isn't being disclosed.
Shah started Jill's List in 2010, and never raised outside funding. She's married to Wayfair co-founder Niraj Shah, whose Back Bay e-commerce company has pursued a different funding strategy: it began as a bootstrapped business, but collected just over $200 million in outside capital last year.
Some extra details in this Red Sox bio. Includes a bunch of board memberships
Feb 14, 2019
Red Sox Foundation Adds Bridget Terry Long andJill Shahto its Board of Directors
Shah has been the President of the Shah Family Foundation since June 2016 and is focused on Boston-based execution and testing of innovative solutions to issues that impact the health and happiness of students and families everywhere. Prior to her work with the Shah Family Foundation, she founded Jill’s List, a health/tech company, which she sold to MINDBODY (MB) in 2013. She served as Senior Vice President of Business and Corporate Development for Mercator Software, a publicly-traded software company that she helped turn around and sell to Ascential Software. Shah moved to Mercator from Monitor Group’s investment banking practice, MAST, where she served as Vice President. She was also part of an entrepreneurial team that helped to build the marketing and internet solutions company Larry Miller Productions, which was sold to iXL and taken public.
Shah currently serves on the Board of Trustees of both The Winsor School and The Belmont Hill School, the Board of Overseers at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, the Board of Advisors for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Board of Directors for Open AG at MIT Media Lab and Fresh Truck, and the Advisory Board of Open Notes. In May of 2018, she was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Bostonians.
Long and Shah join 8 other members of the Red Sox Foundation Board, which includes Chairman Tom Werner, Linda Henry, Michael Egan, Chad Gifford, Michael Gordon, Sean McGrail, Linda Whitlock, and David Friedman.
Jill Shah Open AG at MIT Media lab association looks interdasting
MIT seems to have memory holed it.
Looks like they may have been faking some science
Criticism
Allegations of scientific misconduct
In September 2019, former employees at Fenome, the startup spun off from OpenAg, openly discussed the failure of their Food Computers to maintain the controlled environment required for growing food.[24] They alleged that photographic results andgrowth data had been falsified for presentations to investors and the general public.[25] A series of internal emails sent by Babak Babakinejad, the former lead scientist of the project, backed up these allegations.[24][26]
Further investigations in November showed that the Food Computers which principal investigator Harper claimed had been sent to a refugee camp for Syrian refugees in Azraq[27] had instead been sent to a World Food Programme office in Amman, where they failed to grow food.[28]
Environmental concerns
In September 2019, Boston radio station WBUR published a report detailing charges that the OpenAg initiative lab at MIT's Bates Research and Engineering Center in Middleton had been dumping nitrogen-laden hydroponics solution into the wastewater system at levels above the state's mandated limits of 100 ppm, leading to an investigation by the Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP).[29]
MIT was assessed a fine of $25,125 for this violation. MIT agreed to pay $15,000 and to close a wastewater injection well, and to prepare a wastewater management plan for MassDEP approval.[30]