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Kayla Epps

Founder and CEO, Oma Health · 2 appearances on the record.

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Khaylah Epps is the founder and CEO of Oma Health, a health-tech platform providing business infrastructure to enable nurse practitioners to launch independent practices. Prior to Oma Health and pitching on The Pitch, she worked in healthcare policy at Blue Cross NC and competed on The Bachelor.

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5 assertions · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Kayla argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Kayla Epps: Under 1% of venture capital goes to Black founders
“I mean, you hear horror stories, and I'll be candid, I mean, less than, what, one percent of VC dollars go to Black founders, and I think it's even smaller for Black women founders, so I was under no assumptions that it was going to be an easy ride.”
Kayla Epps Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 1:45:48 Season 12 Finale: What Happened After The Pitch?

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Everything Kayla Epps said on the Pitch that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Kayla Epps: Under 1% of venture capital goes to Black founders
“I mean, you hear horror stories, and I'll be candid, I mean, less than, what, one percent of VC dollars go to Black founders, and I think it's even smaller for Black women founders, so I was under no assumptions that it was going to be an easy ride.”
Kayla Epps Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 1:45:48 Season 12 Finale: What Happened After The Pitch?
Assertion Supported
Epps: Black Women Pay Nearly $10B Annually in Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Costs
“The American healthcare system is failing me and twenty-one million other black women living in the United States, even though we're paying nearly ten billion dollars in out-of-pocket healthcare expenses each year.”
Kayla Epps Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 2:13 Oma Health Shocks Investors—$175K Raised in One Pitch!
Assertion Supported
Nurse Practitioners With Full Patient Panels Generate $217K to $350K Annually
“So a full patient panel, a nurse practitioner is able to bring in 217,000 to 350,000”
Kayla Epps Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 9:55 Oma Health Shocks Investors—$175K Raised in One Pitch!
Assertion Supported
Epps: Charles Hudson and Cyan Banister signed SAFEs for OMA Health
“Charles' process was so seamless and we signed with Charles. Cyan was able to sign our safe agreement, so that's really exciting as well.”
Kayla Epps Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 1:43:10 Season 12 Finale: What Happened After The Pitch?
Disclosure
Epps: Oma Health Is Raising a $1M Pre-Seed Round
“We're raising one million dollars for our pre-seed to bring that vision to reality.”
Kayla Epps Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 3:48 Oma Health Shocks Investors—$175K Raised in One Pitch!
Disclosure
Oma Health Charges Nurse Practitioners an 8% to 12% Take Rate
“Our take rate is eight to 12%, depending on how much support you need from us on the back end.”
Kayla Epps Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 9:41 Oma Health Shocks Investors—$175K Raised in One Pitch!
Assertion Supported
Epps: US Nurse Practitioner Market Growing 45%, Accelerating Into Private Practice
“There's 385,000 nurse practitioners now. It's expected to grow 45% over the next decade. Last year of the nurse practitioners who went into private practice, 31% went into primary care, and that's up from 16% the year prior.”
Kayla Epps Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 10:19 Oma Health Shocks Investors—$175K Raised in One Pitch!

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Statements about Kayla Epps, by other people (1)

Insight
Banister: Obsession With Boring Problems Creates a Competitive Moat
“She wakes up in the morning, is excited about a, what is seemingly a very boring problem to a lot of people. And that is a moat.”
Cyan Banister Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 25:32 Oma Health Shocks Investors—$175K Raised in One Pitch!

Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Season 12 Finale: What Happened After The Pitch? Dec 12, 2024 3m
Oma Health Shocks Investors—$175K Raised in One Pitch! Nov 20, 2024 9m
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