On a university project in South Africa, Leonie Korn saw something urgent: many healthcare professionals lacked access to affordable training. Instead of seeing an impossible challenge, she saw the chance to build smarter.

Leonie co-founded UpLeap, a platform using AI to scale medical training globally. Doctors and nurses in low-resource settings can now access education that once felt out of reach.

It’s about making sure quality healthcare training is available anywhere, not only in privileged regions.

What has surprised her most about the founder journey is the speed of change. Coming from a research background, she expected progress to be slow and methodical. Instead, startup life taught her to fail fast, iterate, and adapt quickly. “It moves fast, but there’s also so much energy around you. People want you to succeed.”

At Aurora, we back leaders who democratize opportunity. Leonie shows how bold choices and clear vision can change global health. Together we build a table where there’s no seat, and we invite women everywhere to shape the systems we all depend on.