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Halle Tecco
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Halle Tecco

American academic and author

Halle Tecco (born 1982 or 1983) is the author of Massively Better Healthcare: The Innovator's Guide to Tackling Healthcare's Biggest Challenges, adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, founder and former CEO at Rock Health and Natalist, and an angel investor and philanthropist.2

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Early life and education

  • Date not recordedCase Western Reserve University3
  • Date not recordedJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health3
  • Date not recordedHarvard Business School3

Tecco earned a BS from Case Western and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she launched Rock Health as a student. She received her MPH at Johns Hopkins University with a concentration in Women's and Reproductive Health.

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Career

Occupation: investor, chief executive officer.5

In 2006, Tecco founded a non-profit, Yoga Bear, which connects cancer fighters and survivors with online access to yoga classes designed for those undertaking treatment. In 2007, Tecco co-founded Techammer with her husband. In 2017, they invested $10,000 in Bitcoin in 2013 and made $250,000 which they donated to cancer research.

In 2010, she founded digital health venture fund Rock Health, where she served as CEO until May 2016.

In 2019, she founded Natalist, a reproductive health company focused on fertility and pregnancy products. In 2021, Natalist was acquired by Everly Health.

In 2026, Tecco published her first book, Massively Better Healthcare: The Innovator's Guide to Tackling Healthcare's Biggest Challenges, published by Columbia University Press.

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Personal life

  • CitizenshipUnited States6

Tecco is married to Jeff Hammerbacher, cofounder of Cloudera. Through in vitro fertilization she gave birth to a son in 2017.

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