Episode 436 of The VentureFizz Podcast features Shilpi Gupta, Founder of Qyn Labs.
Lived the problem and driven to solve it.
If I were a venture capitalist, that would be the most critical pillar of my investment thesis. It’s not impossible to succeed otherwise, but entrepreneurs who have personally experienced the friction they’re solving, I believe, will always have a massive edge.
Shilpi fits the mold here. It was her own personal health experience that led her to a stark realization that hormonal health data is currently reactive, fragmented, and sparse. She knew there had to be a better way, so she founded Qyn Labs to solve this problem and as you’ll learn, she is uniquely qualified to build this company.
For context, our brain communicates in two ways: electrical and chemical. Hormones are the primary chemical signals in our body, yet we have almost no real-time visibility into them. Qyn is changing that with a data-driven platform designed to bring clarity, precision, and understanding to hormone health through simple, at-home testing.
Before Qyn, Shilpi spent her career scaling complex robotics and consumer hardware products. She was part of the Roomba team at iRobot, then she played a key role in making Prime One-Day delivery happen through her work at Amazon Robotics, and then she learned about healthtech while leading product at Pison.
Chapters
00:05 Introducing Shilpi Gupta, Founder at Qyn Labs
03:40 Advice for Entrepreneurs Building in the HealthTech Industry
06:25 Shilpi's Childhood and Early Influences
10:29 Career Beginnings and Transition to Product Management
14:11 Experience at iRobot and Lessons Learned
18:18 Amazon Robotics: Scaling Consumer Experience
22:10 Joining Pison and Getting her Start in HealthTech
26:59 What led Shilpi down the path of starting Qyn
30:55 The Details about Qyn and How it Works
37:31 The Flow of Data to the Consumer
40:36 Advice on Building Hardware and Figuring out Manufacturing Partners
42:05 Raising Capital as a First Time Founder
44:34 Qyn's Business Model
45:28 How Shilbi Leverages AI
46:54 Three Apps Shilpi can't live without
