A Tibetan innovator based in Canada has won at the annual Women of the year awards in its 2022 edition. An innovative approach to business that provides support to women in their pregnancy has won its CEO, Dolma Tsundu the 2022 Women of the year awards by the BCBusiness magazine. This annual award recognized 17 winners in various categories and runner-ups.
Dolma Tsundu, a Tibetan-Canadian has been recognized as Women Innovator of 2022 by BC Business magazine for her entrepreneurial venture, Flutter Care. Flutter Care—its name refers to the first movements in the womb—is a mobile app that aims to predict and prevent pregnancy complications. The first complication that Flutter Care decided to focus on is stillbirth, which a pregnant person can help prevent by recognizing their unique fetal movement pattern.
According to the magazine, Flutter Care received funding from the National Research Council and several other institutions. It is raising a capital round. With advocacy groups, Baby’s Breath Canada and BébéBouge.ca, the startup also recently launched the Canadian Collaborative for Stillbirth Prevention. Besides raising awareness of fetal movement tracking, the three partners are lobbying the federal government to act on prevention.
Since Flutter Care launched last fall, families in 45 countries have used the app. Data platform FemTech Analytics named Tsundu one of its global Femtech Personalities for 2021, in the pregnancy and nursing category.
Tsundu has an integrated engineering degree from UBC from where she found herself admitted to entrepreneurship@UBC’s Lean LaunchPad program in 2017 after winning an award. That introduction to business encouraged Tsundu to combine her varied interests in a way that felt true to herself, by launching a company whose innovative technology safeguards maternal and fetal health.