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The Robot Bassinet That Talked Its Way Into the FDA
A pediatrician wrote the book on calming babies. Then he built the machine - and spent seven years convincing regulators it belonged in the medicine cabinet, not just the nursery.
Nuren Group
Nuren Group is a Malaysian parenting-tech company that helps women navigate the journey from marriage into motherhood through content, community and commerce. Its flagship brands - Motherhood.com.my, Kelabmama.com, Ibuencer.com and the Motherhood Parenting Superapp - reach a community of more than 5 million users across Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Founded by Petrina Goh, the group blends an e-commerce marketplace, a maternity information portal and an influencer network into one ecosystem, and in August 2024 became the first Malaysian parenting-tech company to list on the National Stock Exchange of Australia.
Peggy Chang
Peggy Chang is the co-founder and CEO of ActivityHero, the online marketplace where parents discover, compare and book summer camps, after-school classes and workshops for their kids. An MIT-trained engineer with a Stanford MBA, she spent more than 15 years building consumer software at Intuit's QuickBooks, Charles Schwab, Excite@Home, the Los Angeles Times new-media division and Walt Disney Imagineering before turning a personal frustration - it took her three months to enroll her daughter in gymnastics - into a company. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Palo Alto, ActivityHero now connects more than 4 million families with over 10,000 activity providers, and Chang frames its mission as both helping kids find their passions faster and helping parents (often mothers) stay in the workforce.
Jessica Toh
Jessica Toh is the co-founder and CEO of Huckleberry Labs, the AI-powered children's sleep and parenting app she built with her husband Seng Toh after their own son woke every two to three hours for 20 months. A UC Berkeley triple major in electrical engineering, computer science, and math & statistics with a Cambridge MBA, she turned a personal sleep crisis into data science, then into a company that now reaches more than 5 million families across 150+ countries - including roughly 15% of U.S. babies. Her mission is to make expert-grade parenting guidance affordable for everyone, not just families who can pay a sleep consultant thousands a year.
Suhail Abidi
Suhail Abidi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cube (cubehq.ai), an autonomous AI marketing platform serving multi-location brands like KFC and Taco Bell. A chemical engineer from IIT Kanpur who won the Stanford Reliance Dhirubhai MBA Fellowship - full ride, no internship - he spent his Stanford summer learning to code instead of collecting a consulting paycheck. Before Cube, he built Tinystep into a 600,000-user parenting network that Flipkart backed with $2M and BabyChakra eventually acquired. He is a serial entrepreneur with a consistent pattern: spot a real problem, learn whatever skill is missing, build the company.