How a young Canadian entrepreneur is poised to improve the lives of women
For the majority of women,The most common symptom according to theNanette Sene, cofounder and CEO of Montreal startup Juno Technologies, knows a thing or two about period pain.
With Juno, Sene has made it her mission to help other women by creating a wearable device to alleviate pain.Our product is to relieve menstrual pain without any medication, and without the side effects that come with medication, but still be very efficient,” Sene said. She started researching the issue of menstrual pain two years ago while undertaking her master’s degree in industrial engineering at Polytechnique Montréal.“I love the idea of entrepreneurship, but to create a great product or a great solution, you really need to find a problem that’s real, that’s big, that impacts a lot of people,” she said.And to me, menstrual pain is something that obviously affects so many people. It’s 80 per cent of women that suffer from it.
“In a lot of situations you can’t actually use it to take the day off or to take a sick day, ” she said.from 2019, found that period pain can make women lose nearly nine days of productivity a year.
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