Editor’s note: Welcome to The Pitch, a DC Inno special feature in which we spotlight young local startups led by underrepresented founders. These companies may not have much (or any) funding or revenue, but they do have plans — and they’re taking the initial steps to make things happen. Each month, we’ll highlight a different venture in the D.C.-area landscape, with an intention of following their journeys from this point forward. This is the fourth installment. Previously we have featured CarpeDM, Old Dominion Flower Co. and Acclinate.
Ashley Yesayan’s life changed with a breast cancer diagnosis at age 35.
“On a day just like any other day, I was told that I had an advanced and incurable cancer that might kill me over the next two to five years; that if I didn’t die, I would never be able to have the biological children I had longed for, I would have body parts removed, and that all my hair was going to fall out,” she recalls.
She immediately experienced “a period…
Read the full story from the Washington Business Journal.
