Journey from Dietician to Healthcare Startup Co-Founder

Great writeup on Ariel Ho, Berkeley Taiwan Biomedical visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and co-founder of Diaita, an app that focuses on preventing illness.

Ariel was recently accepted into the National NSF I-Corps program, Berkeley SkyDeck, and the Health Tech CoLab Accelerator, and shares more about her journey from dietician to Healthcare startup co-founder below.

“Our startup, Diaita, means way of life in Greek. It’s an app that focuses on preventing illness. Diaita is a digital solution for people who want to create healthy changes to their lifestyles. Diaita uses cognitive behavioral approaches to motivate users to adopt personalized diet plans with the goal of preventing type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases. This digital solution enables people to gradually change their habits, lose weight and make progress by developing a healthier relationship with food. The app also relies on tried-and-true concepts of psychology.”

https://globe.berkeley.edu/2022/11/ariel-ho-journey-from-dietician-to-healthcare-startup-co-founder/