Jessica Holton
Co-Founder at Actually and Access Distributed
NYC
Founder
Introduction
Jessica is the Co-founder of Ours, a relationship wellness company. She just closed her first round of funding for the startup.
Through Ours, she's launched a totally new way of approaching couples therapy to make it wildly more accessible and normal for people to invest time and energy into building a happier & healthier relationship. Jessica also Co-founded Access Distributed, a nonprofit organization that expands access to foundational careers such as finance and entrepreneurship for undergrad students from underrepresented backgrounds.
Functional Expertise
Entrepreneur
Finance
Product management
Industry
Consumer
Fitness and wellness
Superpowers
- Empathy with the user and deeply understanding the consumer's behavior
- Building magical consumer experiences
- Developing customer user flow that is intuitive and delightful
- Creating exercises / experiences / assignments that teach skills / concepts (especially in a way that breaks down large / hard to understand concepts into digestible, learnable modules)
- Getting people excited about new ideas
- Financial modeling, accounting and truly anything in Excel (secret hobby)
Key Accomplishments
- Just closed my first round of funding for my startup, Ours
- Launched a totally new way of approaching couples therapy to make it wildly more accessible and normal for people to invest time and energy into building a happier & healthier relationship
- Co-founded Access Distributed, a nonprofit organization that expands access to foundational careers such as finance and entrepreneurship for undergrad students from underrepresented backgrounds