Puberry

🍂 Did you know that gratitude is scientifically proven to improve mental health, build stronger relationships, and even boost physical health? With Thanksgiving and the holidays upon us, there’s no better time to reflect on all the incredible people and moments that have made this year unforgettable. Here’s what I’m especially thankful for as we continue to build Puberry: 💙 To the Puberry team: Your creativity, drive, and belief in empowering youth through health education are at the core of everything we do. Kyleigh Sudlow Joseph Nicol Aleksandra Dubrovina Luiza Serson & Our Advisors Matt Strauss, Scott Zalaznik, Becca Brown, Jake Fishbein, MHCI 💡 To our incredible partners: Your collaboration fuels our reach and impact, helping us bring Puberry to communities that need it most. Aunt Flow Counseling In Schools Moxies Welfie Winx Health (formerly known as Stix), etc. 🛠️ To OneSeven Tech: Thank you for your brilliant engineering support, which continues to shape our platform into a robust and impactful resource for youth. James Sullivan 🤝 To our health professional (& MD) volunteers: Your expertise ensures our curriculum is medically accurate and engaging. 🏛️ To Columbia University, the Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change at Columbia University, Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School Lang, and all supporting programs: Your mentorship and resources have been instrumental in our growth. 💡 To our investors: Your belief in Puberry’s mission adds validation and momentum, helping us scale our impact and inspire confidence in our vision. 👨👩👧 To my family and friends: Your unwavering support gives me the strength and encouragement to keep going, even on the hardest days. This season, let’s all take a moment to pause and express gratitude for the people who make our journeys worthwhile. 🌟 What are you most thankful for this year? Share below—I’d love to hear! #Gratitude #HappyThanksgiving #HealthEducation #FemaleFounder #Puberry #CommunityImpact

🌟 How to Keep Going (When the Going Gets Tough) 🌟 🎉  I’m thrilled to share my recent feature on Linda Nedell's Real Founders Podcast with SAYge Link, where I had the opportunity to talk about resilience in entrepreneurship, the journey of building Puberry, and what keeps me going even when things get tough. 💡 “As long as you keep powering through and it’s something you genuinely feel will bring value bigger than yourself, you’ll be able to deliver it.” 🎤 This quote, just a mini glimpse into the episode, perfectly captures my mindset in building Puberry—a gamified health education app focused on empowering youth through healthier lifestyle choices. The entrepreneurial journey isn’t easy (spoiler: it’s really tough), but when your mission is bigger than yourself, the grit and resilience to keep going become second nature. 👉 In fact, starting and scaling a mission-driven company like Puberry has been one of the most challenging yet rewarding experiences of my life. Sharing this journey—along with tips on staying motivated, balancing ambition with self-care (dog walks), and embracing failure as part of the process—was an incredible moment of reflection. 💙 A special shoutout to Joy Hoover I’m honored to share this feature alongside Joy Hoover, founder of Esōes Cosmetics, whose beauty products function as safety devices for women. It’s inspiring to stand beside another founder who’s turning passion into impactful change! 🎙️ If you’re curious about the conversation or need a boost of inspiration for your own entrepreneurial path, check out the article https://lnkd.in/exEKVQwE and podcast https://lnkd.in/eW3NWpHg . And, remember to always stay grounded in your “why.” 💬 And for all my fellow founders and change-makers: What keeps you going when the going gets tough? I’d love to hear your strategies or stories in the comments. Let’s keep the conversation going! #Resilience #FemaleFounders #Entrepreneurship #HealthEducation #Puberry #EsoesCosmetics #SaygeLink

👉 Our founder, Demetra Mallios is pitching Puberry at the Virtual Columbia Business School #DemoDay on Wed, Nov 13th at 12pm! RSVP here to watch: https://lnkd.in/eU_SuBvu 🙌 #ColumbiaBusinessSchool was recently ranked #5 for #entrepreneurship in the world by PitchBook. https://lnkd.in/eev2xkph 🥳 This event will feature pitches from select startups founded by current students and recent alumni. Discover exciting new solutions and potential investment opportunities, including #Puberry and more! 🧑🦱Puberry - Demetra Mallios ’22 A B2B SaaS company offering medically verified, gamified health education for K-12, covering topics like mental health, menstrual health, sex education, and more. 👇 Read more in the Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School post below! #healtheducation #health #femalefounder

👉Learn about our founder, Demetra Mallios, pitching Puberry at the Capital for Good conference, hosted by the Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change at Columbia University. #puberry #socialimpact #healtheducation

🎃 **A MUST READ!! - Would You have expected this???** What an unforgettable Halloween night for Puberry! 🎃 👻 We hear all the time that young people crave immediate gratification, have shorter attention spans, and are hard to engage—especially when it comes to learning. 🎃 But #Halloween night at our #Puberry pop-up proved just the opposite. Competing with all the fun distractions on the #UpperWestSide —epic home displays, endless candy, friends running from house to house—I honestly thought we’d struggle to hold anyone’s attention. But to my surprise, we had a constant crowd around our booth, with kids excitedly answering health trivia questions together, learning, and EARNING their treats! Here’s how it went: 🍫 Kids earned their candy (and other prizes!) by answering at least one health question. They loved spinning the wheel to see which question they'd get, and there was so much teamwork—everyone pitched in to help, even if they were strangers! 🩺 The real surprise? Parents had to PULL THEIR KIDS AWAY so they could keep trick-or-treating!! We had five-year-olds trying to answer trivia, curious and eager to learn about their bodies and health. It was an amazing reminder of how curious young minds really are when given the chance. 🏆 Our grand prize challenge featured a set of six trivia questions, and only those who answered each one correctly could win a Starbucks gift card. Think you’d win? Here’s a taste of the questions we asked! 1. Which hormone is responsible for many of the changes boys experience during puberty? 2. Why does a period occur? / What is it? *Explain what happens. 3. By what age do most boys typically reach their adult height? 4. What is the average amount of blood a lady loses during her period? (Tablespoons or Milliliters) 👉 And beyond the candy and prizes, we even had parents signing up for a one-month FREE Puberry trial. Big thanks to Melissa Moran for all your help—couldn’t have done it without you! 🧠 On Halloween night, we weren’t just giving away candy; we were giving away knowledge and a memorable experience that connected us all. 🫐 PS. This year, I was the Puberry blueberry, but had some adults walking by saying “puberty is scary.” So, stay tuned for next year’s costume. It will be a funny one 😀 ! #HappyHalloween #TrickorTreat #HealthEducation #PubertyTrivia #NYC #startup

💻 We are thrilled to announce that we're working with the incredible team at OneSeven Tech (OST) (James Sullivan) and our amazing Software Engineers from Columbia University to finalize the Puberry web app! 🌐  Kyleigh Sudlow Joseph Nicol Aleksandra Dubrovina Luiza Serson 🥳 With our onboarding complete, the team is now full-speed ahead, ready to bring #Puberry into #schools by the end of 2024. 🎒📚 We can't wait to empower more #students with engaging, #gamified #healtheducation that meets them right where they are. 🩺 Puberry provides medically verified, gamified health education to youth ages 8-18, covering a variety of topics, including mental health, men’s health, menstrual health, sex education, and more. We also offer full transparency of lesson content, customizability, and access to discussion questions for parents and teachers. You can easily integrate Puberry into the classroom or at home! 👉 Whether you want to bring Puberry to your school or district, or a #parent that wants Puberry for their child, sign-up below to join our #waitlist! We offer both school packages, as well as subscription pricing options for parents that want Puberry for their kids. 🌟 Want to be the first to try out Puberry's web app? Join our early bird waitlist and get the first month FREE! 💥 Don’t miss out—sign up today with this link https://lnkd.in/dxTpVyVf 💙 Let’s revolutionize health education together! #EdTech #education #PubertyEducation

🎤 Last night, our founder, Demetra Mallios, had the opportunity to pitch Puberry at the FounderSquare event hosted by Microsoft and Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLP —and wow, what a night! 👉Check-out her post to learn more #puberry #edtech #healthtech #microsoft #foundersquare #investorpitch

🥳 After 1 year of running school pilots with Puberry, we’re thrilled to announce that we’re entering our first paid #school programs for the '24-'25 school year! 🚀 We’re so excited to continue positively impacting #youth and revolutionizing #health #education! 🙌 Last week, the team spent a few hours diving into the details, preparing for our official launch in schools. 📝 ...Check-out our founder's post, Demetra Mallios to learn more, including the features of our V1 launch! Also, a special thanks to our amazing team 👏 Joseph Nicol, Kyleigh Sudlow, Aleksandra Dubrovina, Luiza Serson 👏 #healtheducation #puberry

🌟 #InternSpotlight: Kyleigh Sudlow 🌟HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOO! 🥳 We are excited to introduce Kyleigh, a software engineering intern at Puberry! Kyleigh has already been doing amazing work for the past few weeks, and will continue to support Puberry throughout the Fall semester. 💙 Here’s a bit more about Kyleigh, and we’ll keep you posted on her incredible accomplishments! 👩🎓 Academic Journey: Kyleigh is currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science at Columbia University, General Studies, and is expected to graduate in May 2025. 🩰 Ballet to Bytes: Before diving into the world of computer science, Kyleigh was a professional ballet dancer with the Boston Ballet. Her transition from the stage to the coding world showcases her versatility and drive to continuously evolve and learn. Plus, she brings incredible discipline and drive from ballet to coding! 🎸 Hobbies and Interests: Outside of her academic and professional pursuits, Kyleigh enjoys playing card games and learning new songs on the ukulele. 👧 Personal Puberty Story: “When I was little, I used to love stuffing my shirt with socks... I wanted to look like a grown lady!” 💡 Passion for Puberry's Mission: “Puberry's mission and purpose relates to a few different areas that have played a large role in my life. Working as a part time nanny while earning my degree has especially opened my eyes to the lack of support that kids have in school, and sometimes even at home, when it comes to puberty. I was so thrilled to come across a business plan that aimed to fill the gaps formed by the uncomfortable topics that surface during the critical ages of puberty, and knowing that I can play a part in this developing application means the world to me. I am confident in Puberry's mission and look forward to bringing our work to the attention of my kiddos!” 🥳 Join us in celebrating Kyleigh and her incredible contributions to hashtag #Puberry as a software engineer intern! We are grateful to have her on our team and look forward to seeing the impact she will undoubtedly make, and has already made. You can also follow her Puberry journey and impact on our Puberry Instagram! 👇Plus, checkout her video to learn how her career as a professional ballerina positively impacts her professional journey as a software engineer! https://lnkd.in/exmuKi9M #TeamHighlight #Inspiration #ComputerScience #BalletToBytes #FutureLeaders #softwareengineer #summerinternship #edtech #webapp #mobileapp #consumertech #productdev #healthtech #appdevelopment #dev

Thank you, #dad 💙❤️ Happy Father's Day, yesterday! 🫶 Get a bit more personal with our Puberry team … here’s just some things we’re thankful for 🙏 👉 What’s something your dad taught you? Comment below #happyfathersday #fathersday #puberry #team #startup #thanks Demetra Mallios Kyleigh Sudlow Joseph Nicol Christian Monovoukas