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| Founded | 2014 |
| Employees | 25 |
| Funding | $12.3 million |
Technology is making our lives easier than ever before. With one tap, we can call a car to pick us up, order dinner, or share a photo. But when it comes to issues that specifically impact women, we’re often stuck in the last century. Cycle tracking is one of these issues.
The cycle tracking industry hasn’t seen any true innovation in decades. We built Ava because we believe that women deserve a more modern method of tracking their cycles. They deserve accurate, reliable data about their cycles, delivered in a way that’s convenient and non-invasive.
How Ava works
The Ava bracelet is a completely unprecedented method of tracking the menstrual cycle. While the user is sleeping, Ava’s sensors collects data on nine different physiological parameters. These parameters are fed into our algorithm in order to detect the fertile window.
Other methods of fertility tracking rely on only a single parameter, and thus cannot provide a complete picture of fertility in real time. Ava detects the very first signs that the fertile window is beginning, and confirms when it ends.
And because Ava is a wearable device, it provides accurate information about the cycle with minimal user effort. Wear Ava during sleep, and wake up to insight on fertility, sleep, stress, and resting heart rate.
The clinical proof
Ava completed a year-long clinical study at the University Hospital of Zurich under the lead of Prof. Dr. Brigitte Leeners, the leading expert on the mathematical modeling of menstrual cycles. Ava was found to identify an average of 5.3 fertile days per cycle with an accuracy of 89 percent.
The results of the study were presented in June 2016 at the Swiss Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology Annual Congress and October 2016 at the German Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology Annual Congress. Bayer, the leading women’s health company, is sponsoring Ava’s presentations.
Learn more about the science behind Ava.
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Founders
Lea von Bidder
Lea co-founded L’inouï, a premium chocolate production and retail chain in Bangalore, India. She holds a Master’s degree in global entrepreneurship from EM Lyon in France, Zhejiang University in China and Purdue Krannert University in the USA. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree from the University of St.Gallen and HEC Montréal in Canada. In between her studies, Lea worked for the marketing division of Procter & Gamble in Frankfurt and for a strategy-consulting boutique in Paris.
Pascal Koenig
Pascal has worked in wearable tech for more than ten years. He built up smartwatch company Limmex and research company Smartwatch Group. Pascal won various international prices for his projects and was named one of the 300 most influential Swiss by the Swiss business magazine Bilan. Pascal has studied at the University of St. Gallen and Columbia Business School. Before focusing on wearable technologies, he worked as a product manager at medtech company Synthes and as a business consultant at McKinsey.
Peter Stein
Peter has spent the last 10 years building up high-tech ventures. Before Ava he co-founded greenTEG, where he developed various sensor solutions for OEM customers. Prior to that, he built up the renewable energy project developer sol-E Suisse as CTO. He holds several patents and has received various startup and technology awards. Peter studied mechanical engineering at ETH Zurich and holds an executive diploma in management of high tech organizations at University of St. Gallen. He is member of the American Society of Reproduction Medicine (ASRM).
Philipp Tholen
Philipp has a bachelor degree in mechanical and process engineering and a master’s degree in Management, Technology and Economics, both from ETH Zurich. He started his career at an international corporation active in injection molding solutions. After two years, Philipp took over responsibility of the medical division. In 2011, Philipp became managing director of the company’s business in South Africa. After three years in Johannesburg, Philipp joined the Ava team. He is currently building up production and logistics.