Lilu Massage Bra
Sujay Suresh Kumar
Sujay, the CTO and cofounder of Lilu, got a Masters in Electrical Engineering at Upenn, with a focus in Integrated Circuit Design and Embedded systems. In the High Energy Physics Group at UPenn, Sujay designed the oscillator circuit for the ATLAS experiment of the CERN particle accelerator. Prior to Lilu, he worked at Reliance Jio Infocomm, where he was an integral part of the team that launched 4G in India. He loves to sketch and enjoys playing with electronics to build new things!
Adriana Vazquez Ortiz
Adriana, the CEO and cofounder of Lilu, is a passionate product developer and technologist, who has a keen sense for listening to users and understanding their needs. She received her Masters in Integrated Product Design at the University of Pennsylvania in 2016 and a BS degree from MIT in Math with Computer Science. She has experience in Project Management and Software Development from her time as a Technology Associate at Morgan Stanley, and from her varied internship experience ranging from algorithmic research at BMW to UX Designer at a NYC Health and Lifestyle start up.
Eliza Gerland
Eliza, the Head Of Marketing at Lilu, Inc, graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in English and went on to receive her M.B.A. at the University of San Francisco. Since then, she’s been helping grow consumer brands in the apparel industry. She loves traveling, overanalyzing movies, cuddles with her corgi, and dreams of owning a VW Bus.
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What inspired you to make this project?
After seeing our friends and colleagues return to work after maternity leave and go though the struggle of juggling breastfeeding and work, we set out on a mission to make breastfeeding more compatible with the lifestyle of the modern mom.
We interviewed hundred of mothers and lactation experts and learned that the breast pumping space has been lacking innovation for the last few decades.
The horror stories of mothers struggling to keep up their milk supply due to the inefficiencies of the current technology deeply moved us. As engineers and future fathers and mothers, we felt the need to put our knowledge to good use and build a solution that will make this experience more comfortable for mothers. That's how Lilu was born.
With research insights from soft robotics, we developed our first prototype of a compression bra while we were students at Penn, 2 years ago. We then flew to Shenzhen, China to accelerate our product development. After many iterations of engineering and design of the product, we have a solution that fits.