Lilu is a New York femtech company building smart technology for new mothers. Its flagship Massage Bra is a hands-free wearable that uses patented pneumatic compression to mimic hand massage during pumping, helping mothers express more milk in less time, while its MilkSense app tracks feeding, pumping, and milk stash with AI-driven, personalized lactation insights. Founded by MIT- and Penn-trained engineers Adriana Vazquez and Sujay Suresh Kumar, Lilu aims to make postpartum care more comfortable, efficient, and pain-free.
Milk Stork is the first breast milk shipping and lactation logistics company, helping breastfeeding parents who travel for work or return to the office ship pumped milk home in pre-paid, refrigerated and shelf-stable kits. Offered as an employer benefit by hundreds of companies including Pinterest, Capital One, SpaceX and Nissan, it has shipped tens of thousands of kits across more than 100 countries.
Andrea Ippolito is the founder and CEO of SimpliFed, an Ithaca, New York company building a maternal health operating system that delivers virtual breastfeeding, infant nutrition and OB support to families in all 50 states at no cost through health plans. A biomedical engineer by training, she co-directed MIT Hacking Medicine, co-founded Smart Scheduling (acquired by athenahealth in 2016), served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow in the White House, and ran the VA's Innovators Network before turning her own postpartum struggle into a company that now partners with 300-plus health systems and raised an oversubscribed $10.8M Series A in 2026.