Wikipedia:Noor Siddiqui

Noor Siddiqui (born 1994) is an American entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of the reproductive technology company Orchid.

Early years
Noor Siddiqui was born in 1994 in Northern Virginia to Uzair and Rubina Siddiqui. At age 14, she started a nonprofit to provide scholarships to poor families. At age 17, she was awarded the $100,000 Thiel Fellowship and postponed attending college in order to start a health care technology company. Siddiqui was one of two women and the youngest member of the 2012 class of Thiel Fellows.

Career
In 2014, Siddiqui founded the wearable health care technology company, Remedy. The company produced an app for Google Glass which facilitated remote surgical consults over video. A study at Cambridge Health Alliance found that surgeons who used video chat changed their management plan in 24% of cases. In another pilot study, 91% of surgeons found the app useful for managing patient treatments. In 2015, Remedy developed software that allowed primary care doctors to consult with specialists without needing Google Glass hardware.

In 2018, Siddiqui returned the funds raised to investors in order to attend Stanford University where she studied computer science. She conducted research in the Stanford AI Lab under Sebastian Thrun and in genomics under Anshul Kundaje. She taught the course CS17si: Frontiers in Reproductive Technology with Russ Altman and was a fellow in the Stanford Distributed Trust Initiative.

In 2020, Siddiqui founded a reproductive technology company, Orchid, which measures genetic predisposition to disease.