Portrait No. 001
Anna Moniuszko
Founder
AMME Health
I started AMME Health after repeatedly experiencing how broken and dehumanizing the healthcare system can be—especially when you’re sick, vulnerable, and expected to navigate insurance, claims, and opaque medical bills on your own. I watched smart, capable people delay care, fall into debt, or give up simply because the Ive rules were impossible to understand. I started AMME because I had the systems background, the lived experience, and the urgency to build what I wish had existed. The timing is now because rising healthcare costs, burnout, and complexity have made patient advocacy not optional, it is essential.
In her words
“I started AMME Health after repeatedly experiencing how broken the healthcare system can be—especially when you’re sick, vulnerable, and expected to navigate insurance, claims, and medical bills on your own.”
Chapter I
The toughest challenges you've faced as a founder.
fundraising—specifically as an immigrant woman founder building later in life without an inherited or pre-existing venture network. I didn’t come out of Stanford, YC, or a tight VC circle. I didn’t have warm intros. I had lived experience, technical fluency, and a deep conviction that the healthcare system is financially harming people—and that wasn’t enough to unlock capital. To pursue AMME Health seriously, I made a difficult and humbling decision: I stepped back from a stable career and title to start over in a space where I had to prove myself again, this time as a founder. That meant building a funding network from scratch, learning the language and power dynamics of venture capital, and showing traction while operating with limited resources. As an older founder, I’ve also had to push against the unspoken bias that innovation belongs to the young, even though my insight comes directly from decades of navigating healthcare, insurance, and systems design. Instead of shortcuts, I’ve relied on grit—bootstrapping, pitching relentlessly, refining the vision, and continuing even after setbacks, including a YC rejection that ultimately sharpened the product and mission. This climb has required resilience, reinvention, and stamina—but it’s also forged clarity. I’m building AMME Health not because it’s easy to fund, but because it’s necessary.
Chapter II
Your vision.
AMME Health exists to empower individuals and families to take control of their health and their health finances by simplifying claim submissions, tracking expenses, and enabling smart negotiations and benefit maximization — all in one place.
Chapter III
The impact you want to leave behind — for your industry, your community, and the women who come next.
My legacy is contributing to a world where healing people and healing systems are inseparable. Through AMME Health, I want to normalize patient advocacy and financial clarity as forms of care. Through Joy Labs, I aim to help founders build humane, regenerative technologies. Through my music, I seek to remind people of their inner coherence and capacity for peace. I believe world peace happens peace by peace—when individuals feel supported, dignified, and empowered. Thirty years from now, I hope future women see that it was possible to build companies, create art, and design systems that honored both humanity and wholeness—and that doing so changed what leadership looks like.