Ryder is trying to make specialist care and family benefits easier to reach across the stages of women’s lives.
Kate Ryder is the founder and CEO of Maven Clinic, a women’s and family-health company she started after a career in journalism and venture capital. Based in Brooklyn, New York, she built Maven around easier access to specialist care during family building, pregnancy, and parenthood.
Reporting Before Maven
Before founding Maven, she worked as a journalist for The Economist, reporting from Southeast Asia, New York, and London, and wrote for The New Yorker. In 2009, she helped former US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson write his memoir of the financial crisis. Her career also included venture capital before she started the healthcare company.
Ryder earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Michigan and a master’s degree at the London School of Economics. Her public biographies describe a route into healthcare entrepreneurship through reporting and investing, followed by the experience of seeing gaps in support for people starting families.
Building Care Around Families
She founded Maven in 2014 after observing how difficult it could be to find support while building a family and returning to work as a new parent. Maven developed a virtual network covering specialties such as obstetrics, lactation, mental health, and nutrition, then extended its service through employer and health-plan relationships.
The company’s current offering spans family building, maternity, parenting, and midlife health. It also has a separate consumer platform for virtual visits, hormone care, and GLP-1 care. This broadening reflects her effort to build continuing access across life stages instead of ending support after childbirth.