Company leader
Alicia Jackson
Founder and CEO
Evernow
Alicia Jackson, PhD, is the founder and chief executive of Evernow, an online menopause practice for women over 40. She was deputy director of DARPA's Biological Technologies Office before she moved into health startups.
Science and government service
Jackson earned a PhD at MIT and decided she did not want an academic career. She worked on Capitol Hill and then joined DARPA, where she rose to deputy director of the Biological Technologies Office and managed a portfolio of about $300 million.
At DARPA she grew interested in moving biotech into startups. She moved to San Francisco and co-founded Drawbridge Health with GE.
From fertility to menopause
Jackson first planned a fertility company, drawn by research on ovarian aging. The more she learned about the health effects of the years around menopause, the more she came to believe that "women deserved more science and better solutions for menopause itself."
She frames the opportunity in plain terms: "If you're looking for big problems, half the population is a pretty compelling place to double down."
Research alongside care
Jackson has paired Evernow's telehealth care with research. Its menopause study has enrolled more than 100,000 women, and a poster on how menopause symptoms differ by race was presented at the North American Menopause Society meeting in 2022.
She has also spoken about metabolic health in menopause, including her own use of a continuous glucose monitor to see how food and meal timing affect her blood sugar.