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MeetLuna , a health and well - being app for teen girls that is design to help them navigate teenhood . The app lets teen ask question about their health and wellness and get reply from experts . It also lets them pass over their period , moods , and skin . The London - based startup presented today at on the Startup Battlefield stage atTechCrunch Disrupt 2024to detail its missionary work to cultivate and support teen little girl .
Luna is the brainchild of good acquaintance duo Jas Schembri - Stothart and Jo Goodall , who amount up with the approximation for the startup as part of an assignment during their MBA program at Oxford .
As part of their coursework , Schembri - Stothart and Goodall were necessitate to form a squad , find a trouble , come up with an approximation , and then lurch it to mock investor . They were provide to prefer their own teammates , and Schembri - Stothart separate TechCrunch that she wanted to check she formed a squad of talented adult female .
After forming a team with a few other women from around the humans , the group got to talking about the women ’s wellness issues they were experiencing in their previous 20s and former 30s , and the conversation observe coming back to the fact that they had lack information about their wellness in their adolescence .
They all fit that if they learned more about the red iris around women ’s health when they were teenagers , they would have been able to navigate teenhood and young maturity more well .
The mathematical group come up with the estimate of an app that would help teenagers with their health and well - being journeys throughout pubescence . After pitching the idea to their professors , they received cocksure feedback . Although the dyad remained focused on their studies and coif the project aside , they revisit the theme over their summer break and suppose about bringing it to life .
Schembri - Stothart and Goodall decided to revisit their old high schools to determine up focal point groups with teens to learn about their perspectives on their thought . The teens told the duo that they were facing a misinformation crisis and did n’t bonk what was fact or fake because they were make most of their information from TikTok .
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They also noted that the education system of rules was not helping them see about their health and bodies .
“ We leave these session and mass were e-mail us , like ‘ Hey , where can we download the app ’ ? ” Schembri - Stothart said . “ We were like there ’s clearly a requirement for this and there ’s a massive opportunity here that no one ’s tapping into , and if we do n’t do it , someone else will and we ’ll be shooting ourselves in the substructure . So , we decide to just go for it . ”
After graduating from their MBA program in 2021 , the duo built the app and launch a unsubdivided adaptation of it in November 2022 that they shared with the adolescent who attend to their stress groups . Since then , the company has been building out the app and add new functionality base on responses from users .
Luna get users necessitate anonymous inquiry and get responses from experts like oecumenical practitioners , gynecologists , skin doctor , academics , and more . All of the questions are anonymous , and you could moderate out and read questions ask by other user on the app .
To date , nearly 45,000 question have been require on the platform by 100,000 penis . The startup is using AI to quickly field answers for dubiousness that have already been asked on the program .
For example , if a substance abuser asks how to get in effect skin and a dermatologist on the app responds , their response will automatically be used to respond to other users who have involve the same question . This fashion , aesculapian experts do n’t have to spend time responding to each head individually and can focalise on providing raw advice and insights .
The app features a serial of question that it asks users each daytime to pop out tracking how they sense , while also logging their period , pelt , sleep , and more . Each calendar month , Luna supply users with a reputation that gives them insights based on what they logged . The app will prod user to form intelligent habits and debate chatting with their Dr. about certain thing , such as systematically intemperate periods .
Luna also features a “ Learn ” section where user can get info about specific topics around things like body positivity , oeuvre anxiety , relationships , and more through articles and video from experts .
“ I would like Luna to be in the pockets of stripling everywhere , enabling a more educated and empowered generation of women , and not only assist teen girls , but aid their parents as well , because I consider there ’s a monolithic untapped opportunity for put up parents . We see a heap with antepartum and newborn baby , but then it sort of drops off when it comes to in high spirits schooling . ”
The app lock on a freemium modeling where user can get at all parts of Luna for gratis , but then get cap at a sure point of usage . exploiter can bear € 2.99 per month for inexhaustible admission to the app .
The startup has raised € 1.4 million in funding to date , and has received investment from several holy person and funds , include Syndicate Room , Octopus Ventures , Moonstone , Jade Ventures , and Incisive Ventures .
Luna is usable worldwide , except the United States . The company wants to establish in the States next year after ensuring it has the best product possible in edict to take reward of the massive securities industry opportunity .
Luna is available oniOSandAndroid .
