INSPIRATION
The inspiration behind Samay was our founder’s abuela, Sylvia. Maria witnessed her struggles to understand when her COPD was exacerbating. After she died, Maria decided to switch careers, so that no one else dies because of misdiagnosis.

The inspiration behind Samay was our founder’s abuela, Sylvia. Maria witnessed her struggles to understand when her COPD was exacerbating. After she died, Maria decided to switch careers, so that no one else dies because of misdiagnosis.
Maria Artunduaga is a Colombian- born physician-scientist and inventor with 50+ prizes and publications in Nature, The
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of
America (PNAS).
She decided to leave a career in plastic surgery to found Samay. She's raised $3M in non-dilutive and VC funds to
bring Sylvee to market.