Menopause shouldn’t be something you just endure.

Hey there,

If you’re reading this, menopause has probably entered your life somehow.

Maybe it’s you. Maybe it’s your mom. Maybe it’s someone you love who suddenly isn’t sleeping, can’t focus, or feels like their body has changed overnight.

And maybe you’ve watched them try to figure it out.

Waiting months for appointments. Googling symptoms late at night. Wondering whether what they’re experiencing is normal, or if something is actually wrong.

At some point, we started asking ourselves a simple question: how did we end up here?

Menopause is one of the most universal transitions in a woman’s life, yet it’s still poorly understood and rarely measured in any meaningful way. Symptoms get dismissed as stress or aging. Doctor visits rely on memory instead of evidence. Women show up after years of struggling, and without real data to point to, they often leave without answers.

Modern medicine has made incredible advances, but when it comes to midlife women’s health, we’re still relying on guesswork.

We started Romi at the USC Iovine and Young Academy after watching our own mothers go through this transition without clear explanations or support. What began as a question—why don’t tools exist that actually reflect what midlife women experience?—slowly turned into a company.

The idea behind Romi is simple. Women deserve better information about their own bodies.

By continuously tracking biometrics and symptoms, Romi helps reveal patterns that are otherwise easy to miss. Over time, that information can help women understand what’s changing in their bodies and walk into medical appointments with something more concrete than memory.

We don’t see this as replacing doctors. If anything, it’s the opposite. The goal is to make those conversations more informed, more productive, and harder to dismiss.

If Romi succeeds, the impact will be simple but meaningful. Somewhere down the line, we hope a woman who spent years being told nothing was wrong will be able to look at her data and finally understand what has been happening in her body.

That moment—when someone finally feels heard and understood—is the kind of outcome we’re building toward.

In many ways, we’re building the product our mothers deserved. And the one we know we’ll need one day too.

Thanks for being here and following along.

Lauren, Sama, Hope, and Shailee
Founders of Romi