Femtech startup Well and Worthy wins Trinity University Stumberg competition
A female-founded women's wellness startup won Trinity University's finalist round of the Louis H. Stumberg Venture Competition Thursday evening. The duo also was voted as the audience favorite.Senior Sofia Ortiz and sophomore Ashleigh Reese won the $25,000 grand prize in equity-free funding for scaling their startup. The team won an additional $2,500 donated by Helios Technologies senior vice president of innovation and Technology Doug Conyers, who was slated to judge the competition but could not attend.Ortiz and Reese launched their software platform and app, Well and Worthy, to provide a personalized wellness and lifestyle plan for women via a menstrual cycle-based lifestyle approach. Using science-based approaches and leveraging the holistic practice of cycle syncing, women rec...