Founder

Maria Artunduaga is a Colombian-born physician-scientist inventor with 50+ prizes and The New England Journal of Medicine and Nature publications.

Who decided to leave a career in plastic surgery to found Respira Labs. She's raised $3M in non-dilutive and VC funds to bring Sylvee to market.

Inspiration

Sylvia was Maria’s grandmother, a school principal who was exposed to cigarette smoking since an early age and developed emphysema. She died because of complications from an ICU admission, after an exacerbation of her COPD was diagnosed too late.

Team

Maria Artunduaga

Founder & CEO

MD, MPH, MTM

(PUJ, Harvard, UW, Berkeley)

15+ years medicine/bioengineering/ public health, published in Nature, NEJM, PNAS, 40+ awards, ~$2M in NSF/NIH grants, $1M in VC (pre-seed)

Amateur Flamenco dancer and singer, language/culture buff.

Ricardo Garcia

Tech Lead Advisor

MS, MAS

(UMiami, MIT)

Audio Architect for Pixel Software. Creator of Sound Amplifier and Adaptive Sound (Google), 40+ patents, his code runs in over 3B devices, build and lead 5+ engineering teams Former musician and keyboard player.

Diana Valencia

Physics and Data

Lead Advisor | MS, PhD

(Harvard, MIT)

Co-discovered super-Earths, former NASA Sagan Fellow, 10+ pubs and awards, UToronto Associate Professor Varsity Volleyball player/athlete.

Santiago Alfaro

Industrial Designer

MID, MS, PhD

(RISD, MIT)

15+ years industry experience (Intel VR Labs Lead Designer), can prototype anything in any media

Maria Artunduaga

(Harvard, UW, Berkeley)

15+ years medicine/bioengineering/ public health, published in Nature, NEJM, PNAS, 40+ awards, ~$2M in NSF/NIH grants, $1M in VC (pre-seed)

Amateur Flamenco dancer and singer, language/culture buff.

Tech Lead Advisor

Audio Architect for Pixel Software. Creator of Sound Amplifier and Adaptive Sound (Google),
40+ patents, his code runs in over 3B devices, build and lead 5+ engineering teams
Former musician and keyboard player.

Physics and Data

Lead Advisor | MS, PhD

Co-discovered super-Earths, former NASA Sagan Fellow, 10+ pubs and awards, UToronto Associate Professor

Varsity Volleyball player/athlete.

Santiago Alfaro

Industrial Designer

15+ years industry experience
(Intel VR Labs Lead Designer), can prototype anything in any media

Santiago Martínez

Clinical Operations Lead,

Medical doctor from Colombia’s top medical school, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
Former Intensive Care Unit Hospitalist at one of the top 3 private clinics in Colombia.Cook enthusiast. Former competitive tennis player.

Clinical Operations Lead,

Medical doctor from Universidad
de los Andes in Colombia.
Has published in "Neurology" and "Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders". Self-taught data science and R programming.
Amateur musician and League of Legends player. Former competitive soccer player. Science enthusiast.

Sebastian Rivera

Clinical Operations Lead,

MD from Universidad de Los Andes with 2+ years of research
experience at Fundación Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia's top hospital. Has published posters and papers (BMJ).

Amateur Tennis and Soccer player.
Amateur League of Legends player. Former horse riding competitor.

Machine Learning Engineer

Electronics Engineer from Colombia’s number 1 public university, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Published in IEEE. Has worked in STEM education projects for the Colombian government.

Machine Learning Engineer

Electronics Engineer from Colombia's number 1 public university. Published in IEEE. Co-developed technology based on artificial inteligence for education and mental health care.

Felipe Villalba

Flutter Developer

Flutter developer for iOS and
Android OS. Has created 10+ Apps for mobility and transport, ecommerce, online stores, music and health. Former sustainability entrepreneur/founder.

Rock climber, mountain biker, skateboarder and extreme sports fan.

Software QA Engineer

4+ years managing Quality processes for the software industry, implementer of more than 15 companies in electronic invoicing, Creator of 16 OVAs in augmented reality and mobile app for dental anatomy study.

Gerardo Cordero

AWS Certified Solutions Architect, former Teach lead for Orometro SAS the 3th company with more growth in Colombia and 103th in the world in 2019 according to Financial Times, lead +3 developers teams.

Daniel Martínez

Angular Developer

Multimedia Engineer with emphasis in software developer (Angular, Ionic and reactjs) +4, with experience in development of transactional portals, legaltech platforms, ecommerce in multiple sectors service delivery and management platforms.

Julieta Roqueblave

Visual Communication Designer at the National University of La Plata, Argentina.UX
UI and UX writing at Coder House.
+6 years of experience in
branding, political campaign, photography and graphic design.

Electronics Engineer and Designer from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. With more than 15 certifications of UX Design.
Winner of Hult Prize on Campus and Fresh Design at ASME IAM3D Competition

Project Manager

Civil Engineer/Architect turned project manager (Masters) from Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia's top 1 university. 2+ years of tech startup experience

Maria Artunduaga

(Harvard, UW, Berkeley)

15+ years medicine/bioengineering/ public health, published in Nature, NEJM, PNAS, 40+ awards, ~$2M in NSF/NIH grants, $1M in VC (pre-seed)

Amateur Flamenco dancer and singer, language/culture buff.

Tech Lead Advisor

Audio Architect for Pixel Software. Creator of Sound Amplifier and Adaptive Sound (Google),
40+ patents, his code runs in over 3B devices, build and lead 5+ engineering teams
Former musician and keyboard player.

Physics and Data

Lead Advisor | MS, PhD

Co-discovered super-Earths, former NASA Sagan Fellow, 10+ pubs and awards, UToronto Associate Professor

Varsity Volleyball player/athlete.

Santiago Alfaro

Industrial Designer

15+ years industry experience
(Intel VR Labs Lead Designer), can prototype anything in any media

Santiago Martínez

Clinical Operations Lead,

Medical doctor from Colombia’s top medical school, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
Former Intensive Care Unit Hospitalist at one of the top 3 private clinics in Colombia.Cook enthusiast. Former competitive tennis player.

Clinical Operations Lead,

Medical doctor from Universidad
de los Andes in Colombia.
Has published in "Neurology" and "Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders". Self-taught data science and R programming.
Amateur musician and League of Legends player. Former competitive soccer player. Science enthusiast.

Sebastian Rivera

Clinical Operations Lead,

MD from Universidad de Los Andes with 2+ years of research
experience at Fundación Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia's top hospital. Has published posters and papers (BMJ).

Amateur Tennis and Soccer player.
Amateur League of Legends player. Former horse riding competitor.

Machine Learning Engineer

Electronics Engineer from Colombia’s number 1 public university, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Published in IEEE. Has worked in STEM education projects for the Colombian government.

Machine Learning Engineer

Electronics Engineer from Colombia's number 1 public university. Published in IEEE. Co-developed technology based on artificial inteligence for education and mental health care.

Felipe Villalba

Flutter Developer

Flutter developer for iOS and
Android OS. Has created 10+ Apps for mobility and transport, ecommerce, online stores, music and health. Former sustainability entrepreneur/founder.

Rock climber, mountain biker, skateboarder and extreme sports fan.

Software QA Engineer

4+ years managing Quality processes for the software industry, implementer of more than 15 companies in electronic invoicing, Creator of 16 OVAs in augmented reality and mobile app for dental anatomy study.

Gerardo Cordero

AWS Certified Solutions Architect, former Teach lead for Orometro SAS the 3th company with more growth in Colombia and 103th in the world in 2019 according to Financial Times, lead +3 developers teams.

Daniel Martínez

Angular Developer

Multimedia Engineer with emphasis in software developer (Angular, Ionic and reactjs) +4, with experience in development of transactional portals, legaltech platforms, ecommerce in multiple sectors service delivery and management platforms.

Julieta Roqueblave

Visual Communication Designer at the National University of La Plata, Argentina.UX
UI and UX writing at Coder House.
+6 years of experience in
branding, political campaign, photography and graphic design.

Electronics Engineer and Designer from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. With more than 15 certifications of UX Design.
Winner of Hult Prize on Campus and Fresh Design at ASME IAM3D Competition

Project Manager

Civil Engineer/Architect turned project manager (Masters) from Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia's top 1 university. 2+ years of tech startup experience

Consultants/Advisors

Allison Komiyama

Design/Marketing

Alejandro Comellas

Angela Macfarlane

Luis Javier Peña

Deborah
Kilpatrick

Gabrielle LeBlanc

Physician turned ML scientist from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. with 8+ years of experience in signal processing and medical data analysis. First authorships in 3+ peer-reviewed journals.

Allison Komiyama

Design/Marketing

Alejandro Comellas

Angela Macfarlane

Luis Javier Peña

Deborah
Kilpatrick

Gabrielle LeBlanc

Physician turned ML scientist from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. with 8+ years of experience in signal processing and medical data analysis. First authorships in 3+ peer-reviewed journals.

Maria Artunduaga

Founder & CEO

Ricardo Garcia

Tech Lead Advisor

Diana Valencia

Physics and Data

Lead Advisor

Santiago Alfaro

Industrial Designer

Santiago Martínez

MD

Sebastian Rivera

MD

Jorge Ríos

MD

Bo Gong

MD, PhD

Liz Jaramillo

Machine Learning Engineer

Felipe Villalba

Flutter Developer

Andres Heredia

Software QA Engineer

Gerardo Cordero

AWS Engineer

Daniel Martinez

Industrial Designer

Julieta Roqueblave

UI Designer

Gina Salazar

UX Researcher

Oscar Rendón

Industrial Designer

Will Burke

Design/Marketing

Cezar Morun

PhD

Allison Komiyama

PhD

Pierre Bounaud

PhD

Xavier Soler

MD

Alejandro Comellas

MD

Michael Hess

RRT, MPH

Jimmy Slover

Ganesh Krishna

MD

Luis Javier Peña

MD

Deborah Kilpatrick

PhD

Angela Macfarlane

JD

José Padilla

JD

Joel Brill

MD

Gabrielle LeBlanc

PhD

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