# Anne Fulenwider

> Anne Fulenwider spent 25 years turning sentences into magazine covers, capped by eight years as editor-in-chief of Marie Claire. Then she walked away from the masthead to co-found Alloy Women's Health, a digital company that connects women in perimenopause and menopause to menopause-trained physicians and doctor-prescribed treatment delivered to the door. She runs it as co-CEO alongside Monica Molenaar, applying an editor's instinct for storytelling to one of medicine's most overlooked subjects.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Alloy Women's Health
- **Organizations:** Alloy Women's Health, Marie Claire, Vanity Fair, The Paris Review, Brides
- **From:** New York City, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.A. in English and American Literature (magna cum laude), Harvard University
- **Known for:** Editor-in-chief of Marie Claire (2012-2020), Media Industry Newsletter 'Editor of the Year' (2013), Folio: Magazine 'Editor of the Year' (2015)

## Career timeline

- **1995** — Graduated from Harvard; interned at David Lauren's startup Swing magazine
- **late 1990s** — Worked as assistant and researcher for George Plimpton at The Paris Review, including research for Plimpton's Truman Capote biography
- **2000s** — Senior editor at Vanity Fair, editing writers such as Dominick Dunne, Buzz Bissinger and Fran Lebowitz
- **2009** — Joined Marie Claire as executive editor under Joanna Coles
- **2011** — Named editor-in-chief of Brides
- **2012** — Became editor-in-chief of Marie Claire
- **2019** — Announced departure from Marie Claire to build a women's health startup
- **2020** — Co-founded Alloy Women's Health with Monica Molenaar
- **2024** — Named to Forbes 50 Over 50; Alloy raised Series A funding

## Achievements

- Editor-in-chief of Marie Claire (2012-2020)
- Media Industry Newsletter 'Editor of the Year' (2013)
- Folio: Magazine 'Editor of the Year' (2015)
- 'Women in Media Industry Leader' (2016)
- Hearst Innovation of the Year for The Power Trip conference (2017)
- Forbes 50 Over 50 honoree (2024)
- Co-founded and scaled Alloy Women's Health to ~71 employees with over $21M raised

## Latest updates

- **2024-11** — Alloy Women's Health closed a Series A round; latest funding reported at $16M, total funding around $21.3M.
- **2024** — Named to the Forbes 50 Over 50 list.
- **2025-05** — Featured with co-founder Monica Molenaar in the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center's Faces of Entrepreneurship series.

## Links

- Website: https://www.myalloy.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-fulenwider-b367181b7/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/annefulenwider
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alloywomenshealth

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Last updated: 2026-06-04