A former Medela executive and a Harvard-MBA operator spent more than a decade re-engineering the baby bottle. The pitch is simple: make the bottle behave like the breast so babies stop refusing one for the other.
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.