Jan 2, 2022
Ara Katz is the co-founder and co-CEO of Seed Health, a microbial sciences company pioneering applications of microbes for human and planetary health. It was her breastfeeding experience that led her to the microbiome and inspired her personal mission to explore the importance and impact of microbes.
She is also a co-founder of Seed Health’s environmental initiative, SeedLabs, and its first therapeutics partner company, LUCA Biologics. Ara previously co-founded and served as CMO of digital commerce company Spring, where she helped launch ApplePay on iPhone, and was on the founding team of social commerce company BeachMint.
As an advisor and angel investor across health tech, ed tech, consumer, and sustainability, Ara has supported companies like RXDefine, Newness, C16 Biosciences, MindBodyGreen, Mahmee Maternal Care, Stadium Goods, and Unicycle.
She is also the author of A Kids Book About Your Microbiome and lives in Venice, California with her husband and six-year-old son, Pax.
To learn more about Ara Katz and the resources mentioned in this episode, visit the show notes.