It’s not every entrepreneur that hatches an idea for a business with their mother, let alone when they’re hiking up Mount Kilimanjaro. But away from daily distractions like email and a functioning smartphone, that’s where Cancer IQ co-founder and CEO Feyi Olopade was vacationing with her mom, Dr. Olufunmilayo (Funmi) Olopade — the director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics at the University of Chicago School of Medicine. They developed an idea for how to create a clinical decision support tool based on a technology platform her mother helped develop to make personalized cancer care more accessible and more efficient.
