
April Koh
CEO and co-founder of Spring Care
Education
- BA Sociology & Computer Science - Yale University
- Summer Study Advanced French Language - Columbia University
Overview
April Koh is the Co-Founder and CEO of Spring Care.
With a background in sociology and computer science, she has been recognized as one of the most promising young entrepreneurs. Her company made Fast Company’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2020, and Koh herself was on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Healthcare both in 2018 and 2020.
From being a vocal advocate for mental health awareness to building a deeply impactful company in a space that is constantly evolving and posing new challenges to the founding team and beyond, Koh has thought long and hard about how her own origins and how her company came to being and how it differs from others.
For Koh, one of the primary inspirations for her journey has been her father who became a successful entrepreneur after leaving his corporate career. Typically, entrepreneurs begin with the idea of creating a company and only then look for a problem to solve. The idea upon which Spring Health is built first came into being during her time at Yale where she stumbled upon a research paper by a PhD student, Adam Chekroud, who would become her cofounder. For Koh, Chekroud’s research on the applications of data and machine learning on mental health was a jaw-dropping experience.
Career
- Spring Care - CEO
Recognition
2021 Women of Impact Issued by Entrepreneur Magazine · Nov 2021.
Goldman Sachs 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs Issued by Goldman Sachs · Jan 2019