Transfoming taboos into triumphs

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Our vision is to bring smart garments and accessories designed to relieve postpartum pain, offer data-driven insights and more broadly enhance the journey of early motherhood by developing new exciting products that will help moms achieve all their goals while making their day just a little bit easier. Our first step is making pumping easier!

Lilu was founded by two MIT & Penn engineers who recognized that new moms have been vastly ignored by technology, especially when it comes to breast pumping. Driven by their love for technology and healthcare, and after seeing, friends, colleagues and professors struggle with breast pumping, Adriana and Sujay who met as lab-mates at Penn, realized that women’s and maternal health was lacking innovation So they decided to build a product that makes breast pumping more efficient to help more moms reach their breastfeeding goals, and Lilu was born - their goal has evolved to harnessing the power of technology to improve healthcare for moms.

Being a modern mom is about more than achieving work-life balance. It’s about thriving. That’s why Lilu creates products that empower moms during their transition to new parenthood. We are trying to make areas in maternity a bit easier and more pain-free - because moms put up witha lot of physical pain and discomfort - but they shouldn’t need to. Because moms deserve more. 

Femtech for me means designing technology for women and involving women in that design and building process from inception to end - in some ways it’s a controversial term because we don’t have terms like “men-tech” (although perhaps we should and we’d realize that a lot of “status-quo” tech is designed for men). Yet I think it helps to name something, because once you can name it you can grasp and tackle it - and if that’s what we need, to bring attention to this space, then I embrace it fully. And what we do know is that innovation for women’s health is extremely needed, and that our entire humanity.