We’re Jack and Glenda Williams. Valeska grew from both sides of our lives: decades working in healthcare technology and the daily reality of managing complex care at home. We built the patient tool we kept wishing existed.
Watch how the scattered pieces of daily care became one connected thread.
Select play to watch with sound. Soft instrumental guitar; no spoken dialogue.
Jack and Glenda work together at their kitchen table, with Glenda’s cane beside her. Notes, medication, appointments, and health data are connected by a rose-gold thread. Luke, a blue dragon, gathers the pieces around an upright heart. Jack and Glenda then walk forward together before the Valeska name and App Store badge appear.
Valeska began at our kitchen table.
Symptoms. Medications. Appointments. Questions.
Twenty years in healthcare — and the right tool still didn’t exist.
Together, we built what was missing.
Built for everyone carrying more than anyone else can see.
Valeska. Inspired by Latin valēre. To be strong. To be well. Available now on the App Store.
Glenda lives with multiple sclerosis and has a history of breast cancer. Symptoms, medications, appointments, and questions had ended up in different places, even though they were all part of the same life.
That gap wasn’t theoretical. It was something we were navigating every day, and it showed us what this kind of tool had to respect: hard days, limited energy, privacy, and the need to be heard at the next visit.
So we built Valeska together: a place to keep the thread connected, surface useful patterns, and walk into the next conversation with a clearer picture of what changed.
Luke is Valeska’s storybook guide. He carries the thread through the pieces of daily care—the same job Valeska is meant to do. The name Valeska is inspired by Latin valēre:to be strong, to be well.
Available now for iPhone.A software engineer with two decades of building healthcare technology. Jack has written the code behind the systems hospitals and clinics rely on every day, wrangling messy data, and sweating the privacy and reliability that healthcare demands. He co-founded Valeska to point all of that experience at the person who usually gets left out: the patient.
Thirty years in healthcare, twenty of them in healthcare IT, and the patient Valeska was designed for. Lives with multiple sclerosis and has a history of breast cancer, so she brings both deep professional knowledge and the lived experience no spec doc could capture. Every design decision routes through her, because the tools she needed didn’t exist.
Healthcare software fails patients when it ships unfinished. We take longer than feels comfortable, and we say no to features that don’t earn their place.
On-device AI, end-to-end encryption, opt-in sync. We assume PHI should stay with the patient unless they explicitly choose to share it.
Our tools observe patterns. They do not give medical advice. There is a difference, and we hold that line carefully.
We build for users, not for an exit. Independent funding means we get to make the long-term call when it matters.
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