Anniek van Veldhuizen discusses safety as a crucial yet often overlooked aspect of living, particularly for marginalized groups. Her company, MyHives, utilizes technology to track feelings of unsafety, aiming to inform better design in safety infrastructure. The episode emphasizes the importance of capturing diverse experiences to create inclusive solutions.More
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Podcast episode that features a female founder.
How FLTRD’s PureScore Makes Healthy Food Choices Easy | Show notes for episode 170 with Anke Kuik
In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk with Anke Kuik, co-founder and CEO of FLTRD, about turning a personal interest in nutrition into a tool that helps people navigate the supermarket. Anke walks me through the science behind PureScore, why popular nutrition labels can be misleading, and the founder decisions that took FLTRD from an outsourced prototype to more than 30,000 downloads.More
How Female Endurance Athletes Keep Performing During the Hormonal Transition | Show notes for episode 168 with Karianne Kraaijestein
Karianne Kraaijestein spent years building resilience through sport, from gymnastics to indoor climbing to yoga, before starting triathlons at 47. Now she’s the founder of Adaptive, a coaching platform for female endurance athletes navigating a different kind of endurance test: the hormonal transition.
In this episode, we talk about her own journey in endurance sports, why she is focusing on women who are in a hormonal transition, and what data is needed to enable peak performance for women at this stage of their lives.
If you’re an endurance athlete in perimenopause or postmenopause, or you coach one, and training has stopped working for reasons nobody can quite explain, this episode has pointers on where to look for strategies that improve performance.
For female founders and women in tech building trust-dependent products in spaces where the data doesn’t exist yet, Karianne provides insights that can help you navigate the early stages.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
* Why standard training plans, built for a generic body, fail women in the hormonal transition
* Why tracking sleep, heat regulation, and training load matters more than tracking hormones directly
* How Karianne finished part of the S’GRAIL in Girona on a torn ACL, and what that taught her about risk
* Why “too much heart and not enough mind” bankrupted her previous yoga studio, and what she’s doing differently with Adaptive
* Why she considers a scientific advisory board the biggest de-risking factor for investors in a trust-dependent product
* How letting the community “almost be part of the building” shapes Adaptive’s product developmentMore
Turning Early Fans Into a Marketing Engine | Show notes for episode 167 with Elise Mol
Only 3% of people who show up to an event went looking for it. The other 97% follow someone they trust. In episode 167 of Women Disrupting Tech, Elise Mol, co-founder of BASH, explains why chasing that 97% with ads misses the point, and why your first ticket buyers matter more than your marketing budget. This post covers practical takeaways, magic moments, a defining quote, and cross-episode trends on building community that sells itself.More
Tackling Menstrual Cup Hygiene and Period Poverty | Show notes for episode 165 with Sophie Haccou
CupHub co-founder Sophie Haccou explains why one in eight women in the Netherlands can’t afford period products, and why menstrual cups, despite being cheaper long-term, come with their own barrier: nowhere to rinse one away from home. In episode 165 of Women Disrupting Tech, she shares how Casey, a portable rinsing device, tackles both problems.More
Building an Adaptable Pessary To Restore Women’s Autonomy | Show notes for episode 164 with Mirjam Weemhoff and Bart van Diepenbeek
Saturn Pelvic Health co-founders Mirjam Weemhoff and Bart van Diepenbeek explain why half of pessary users deal with painful side effects, and why producers have no incentive to fix it. In episode 164 of Women Disrupting Tech, they share how Flexsupp, their adaptable pessary, aims to restore autonomy for women with pelvic organ prolapse.More
Health 4.0: Transforming Healthcare For Real Health Equity | Show notes for episode 163 with Robin Blackstone, MD
One in three women will develop incontinence, and the options have stayed stuck at pads or surgery. In episode 162, Leonie van de Kamer, CEO of Certain, is building the valve in between: a patient-controlled device for stress urinary incontinence. On the spin-out from a contraceptive startup, why the UK comes first, and funding a device that does not exist yet.More
Rethinking Incontinence: Building the Certain Valve | Show notes for episode 162 with Leonie van de Kamer
One in three women will develop incontinence, and the options have stayed stuck at pads or surgery. In episode 162, Leonie van de Kamer, CEO of Certain, is building the valve in between: a patient-controlled device for stress urinary incontinence. On the spin-out from a contraceptive startup, why the UK comes first, and funding a device that does not exist yet.More
How a Female Founder Is Fixing Solar Energy’s Hidden Waste Problem | Show notes for episode 154 with Andjela Bozinac
In episode 154, Andjela Bozinac, co-founder of Renovo Recycling, shares her journey from engineering to building innovative solutions for solar panel recycling. Discover how her technical background, martial arts discipline, and system thinking are driving a modular, chemical-free approach to end-of-life solar waste management, and learn practical tips for founders entering deep tech and climate innovation.More
How a Female Founder Helps Women Take Charge of Their Fertility | Show notes for episode 153 with Sabrina Nowicki
In this podcast episode, Sabrina Nowicki discusses her role in creating Cyclisity, a digital tool designed to help women master the fertility awareness method. Inspired by the pioneering work of her aunt, Toni Weschler, the app focuses on tracking biological indicators like basal body temperature and cervical fluid to provide insights into reproductive health. Unlike many competitors, the platform rejects predictive algorithms, instead prioritizing user education and data privacy to ensure women retain personal agency. The conversation highlights the founders’ strategic choice to self-fund the project, allowing them to remain committed to their ethical values without investor pressure. Ultimately, the sources describe a mission to bridge the gap between traditional menstrual charting and modern technology through a transparent, educational approach.More