Podcast Episode 20 is out: Kaveh Memari from Sofi Health

Podcast

By Lukas on 30 Aug 2023

How did you sleep last night? Would you like to sleep better? Chances are you answered that with a resounding yes! Kaveh Memari is the Founder of sofi.health, a startup combining ancient plant medicine with cutting edge A.I. to improve your sleep and state of calm. Through a tailor-made spray, Sofi responds to your ongoing needs and feedback, using machine-learning to adjust dosage and blend as you go. Kaveh discusses:

His experience in 10 different schools in 4 different countries before the age of 9
The importance of being able to make friends quickly
The ‘pandemics pre-pandemic’ of poor sleep and stress
How he hopes he’ll ‘never become an adult’ and his approach to ‘play not work’
His team at Sofi – where everyone is a ‘one off’
How the Sofi product was developed with a group of customers ’Pioneers’
The Sofi product – using ancient plant medicine, combined with cutting edge machine learning and data, to tackle poor sleep and stress
How to personalise products at scale
The initial pilot with Valerian in 2022 and how they mapped 300 unique responses
The staggering results from their first trial
The potential impact if we could stop prescribing the wrong medication on a global scale
The science and safeguards in place to avoid dependency and addiction on Sofi products
The Sofi moonshot
How he stays resolute in the face of adversity and being told his idea will never work
His answer to the moral question of collecting huge amounts of health data
The power of mixing disciplines: from biochemistry to medical herbalism