Our eyes are bleeding from all the heady reading this morning, but in a good way.
- Marc Andreessen posted a "Techno-Optimist Manifesto." TechTwitter is split 🍿
- The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups is here. 🚧 We 👀 beehiiv!
- Spotify launched a merch hub. K, but I want a shirt with my Year In Review persona (i.e. “Genre Fluid”).
Aging is hard for everyone. Even if you’re embracing your gray hairs or shipping the new Golden Bachelor and his golden girls, your body may be objecting to the things that were once easy.
Vitelle is a new app that helps women of a certain age get ahead of their health and aging symptoms that snowball as time goes on.
In this case, “of a certain age” means about when perimenopause symptoms begin. That transitional phase, before menopause, can start as early as your 30s.
Vitelle is founded by Roma Van der Walt, who was a professional athlete representing Team Germany in modern pentathlon for almost a decade. She went on to work as a public information officer at the U.N., and later coached new parents through pregnancy and postpartum after becoming a mom herself.
The Vitelle app “gets to know you [and] becomes your blueprint,” explains PM Kayla Doan. It uses adaptive machine learning to help you manage your health. That’s important because women’s bodies are complicated and changing regularly — today might look and feel a whole lot different than it did two weeks ago, or last month.
Recommendations and goals in the app take into consideration sports science, advanced biometrics, and expert insights.
If you’re a 90s kid (or above), check out the app and leave some feedback for the makers, or share it with the women you know who were around when the Tamagotchi was hot.
In an era where AI is reshaping how businesses operate, the journey of building an early-stage startup has never been more dynamic—or complex. How do founders navigate finding product-market fit, delegation, and scaling, all while adapting to technological innovations?
Join on January 14 at 3 pm PT for a fireside chat with Christina Cacioppo, CEO and Co-founder of Vanta, and Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup and Founder of LTSE, as they explore the journey of the modern startup founder.
Eric and Christina will discuss:
- JibJab has turned the funny, personalized eCards we know and love into invites for your parties.
- Lettre.app is bringing joy back to letter writing and pen pals with an immersive iPad experience, stamp collections, and more.
- Maurader is a step-tracking and mapping app that’s private/for personal use.
- Softr just launched its AI App Generator to help build apps with text prompts only.
- AStime is a time-tracking app with a project management tool that connects to Jira.
- Komiser is an open-source cloud-environment inspector for AWS, GCP, Azure, and more.