Rachel Barek

Founder of Said Differently, Board Member, Strategic Advisor, Investor, Adjunct Professor of Marketing & Business. Open to Board Roles.

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2026
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Strategic Advisor & Investor
Jul 2025
Aide is an award-winning digital health company. Our flagship product, Aide, helps patients and clinicians manage multiple chronic conditions. Our latest product, Mirror, helps patients remember everything from medical consultations. Our work has been consistently recognised for innovation in health. In 2025, we received an Innovate UK Biomedical Catalyst award to support patients living with haematological cancers. In 2024 Aide Health was selected to join the prestigious Google for Startups ‘AI for Health’ accelerator. In 2023, our research into novel use of conversational AI for hypertension patients was funded by the NIHR. We have a singular mission: to make prescribed care as effective as possible.
Strategic Advisor & Investor
Oct 2023
Talamos mission is to democratise access to Special Educational Needs (SEN) identification and support. We have launched our parents product, which is for sale on our website and is currently being piloted in 44 schools! For details, please contact hello@talamo.co.uk
Strategic Advisor & Investor
Jan 2022
Our science-backed, pocket-sized beverage helps you feel better no matter where your social obligations take you.
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2026
Board Member
Apr 2026
KID Museum is our region’s pioneering experiential museum and educational makerspace. We foster the “Mind of a Maker” in kids and youth, empowering the next generation with the skills to invent the future. We see the world as full of promise, potential, and possibility. We envision a bold future where there are pathways for every young person to engage in the hands-on, transformational learning and exploration that unlocks new opportunities. We work everyday to make this vision a reality. With a focus on engaging populations that are traditionally underrepresented in STEM, our programs build economic opportunity and help diversify the talent pipeline of the future.
2025
Mubadala Citi DC Open Tennis (Volunteer)
Jul 2025
The Mubadala Citi DC Open tournament, played in Washington D.C., is one of the world’s premier tennis events and benefits the Washington Tennis & Education Foundation (WTEF). The tournament was founded in 1969 by Donald Dell, John Harris and Arthur Ashe in its current location in Rock Creek Park with a vision of making pro tennis accessible for all athletes and fans in the Washington community. Beginning in 2019, venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and DC native Mark Ein’s organization, MDE Tennis, began managing and operating the tournament under an agreement with WTEF. The organization provides underserved children in the D.C. area with a safe environment to learn critical life skills both on and off the courts through academic and athletic enrichment. The Mubadala Citi DC Open tennis tournament is the only combined ATP and WTA 500 level event in the world on the tour calendar and one of only five combined ATP/WTA tour events in the United States. After 56 years, it is also the longest-running professional tennis event at the same site in the United States. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Strategic Advisor & Investor
Jul 2025
Aide is an award-winning digital health company. Our flagship product, Aide, helps patients and clinicians manage multiple chronic conditions. Our latest product, Mirror, helps patients remember everything from medical consultations. Our work has been consistently recognised for innovation in health. In 2025, we received an Innovate UK Biomedical Catalyst award to support patients living with haematological cancers. In 2024 Aide Health was selected to join the prestigious Google for Startups ‘AI for Health’ accelerator. In 2023, our research into novel use of conversational AI for hypertension patients was funded by the NIHR. We have a singular mission: to make prescribed care as effective as possible.
2024
Board Member
Jan 2024
SMYAL (Supporting and Mentoring Youth Advocates and Leaders) is the only Washington, DC metro area service organization solely dedicated to supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. SMYALs mission is to support and empower LGBTQ youth in the Washington, DC metropolitan region. Through youth leadership, SMYAL creates opportunities for LGBTQ youth to build self-confidence, develop critical life skills, and engage their peers and community through service and advocacy. Committed to social change, SMYAL builds, sustains and advocates for programs, policies and services that LGBTQ youth need as they grow into adulthood. For more information, visit http://www.smyal.org/
2023
Strategic Advisor & Investor
Oct 2023
Talamos mission is to democratise access to Special Educational Needs (SEN) identification and support. We have launched our parents product, which is for sale on our website and is currently being piloted in 44 schools! For details, please contact hello@talamo.co.uk
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