Empower
your
menopause
TaraCares is your personalised Health GPS for evidence-based, individualised, accessible, and affordable menopause health and wellbeing.
WHO WE ARE
Winner of Innovate UK, Fast Start Competitive Award September 2022.
Founded in May 2022, TaraCares is an AI HealthTech start-up committed to addressing unmet global health needs in menopause awareness, diagnosis, and management.
We’re using cutting-edge AI technologies, clinical excellence, and academic research partnerships to develop a precision health platform that promotes an evidence-led, individualised, and scientific approach to understanding menopause.
We exist to make menopause care safe, inclusive, accessible, and affordable because we believe everyone deserves equal care for their menopause health and well-being.
What we do
Tackling the 3Ss of Menopause with 3Ts from TaraCares
We are leading a safe and inclusive future for equitable menopause health and wellbeing by creating it with science in action for every person assigned female at birth (AFAB).
- Stigma
- Suffering
- Silence
- Tailored knowledge
- Timely diagnosis
- Total management
Mis-information
Research-based and validated scientific information is scarce and women in menopause transition are relying on the internet and social media such as Tik Tok or friends and family to understand their symptoms. Individual differences in menopause experience due to socio-ethnic factors, medical history, family history, and lifestyle factors make it a heterogenous and complex phenomenon.
Mis-diagnosis
Lack of medical expertise in post-reproductive medicine, urgent need for more research, as well as lack of relevant data for clinical decision-making and diagnosis when menopause symptoms could overlap with other health conditions leads to misdiagnosis as well as non-adherence to menopause clinical care guidelines published by the National Institute of Care and Excellence. Menopause has become an important public health issue, as such, it is featured as priority research guidance by the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NG23, QS143).
Mis-management
Hormone Replacement Therapy is the GOLD standard being offered for symptom relief and to prevent secondary health conditions. There is a diverse range of hormonal therapy available, but its suitability needs to be determined by a patient’s individual factors especially Cancer survivors, patients who have undergone reproductive surgeries, and are diagnosed with mental health.
OUR SOLUTION
Awareness, Diagnosis & Management For Long Term Female Health Using Science And Explainable AI
We offer resources that help participants understand their menopause HealthGraph™, transition goals, hormone therapy (HRT) risk profile and overall wellbeing.
We provide telehealth options for access to diagnostic, psychological, leadership coaching, and other Menopause empowerment services.
We offer personalised management plans that include hormonal and non-hormonal options. Personalised with your HRT background risks.
Boss your menopause with science in action!
Get equipped with validated information and detailed insights you need to understand, prepare and manage your long term female health & menopause transition.
Download MIMOSA platform
Some facts
85%
of women experience symptoms of menopause
70%
of women say menopause impacts their daily life
60%
of women feel isolated in their journey
WE LISTENED AND ANSWERED
Take of your unique journey
Personalised Education
Re-imagining how female individuals of all ages, ethnicities and gender enter their unique menopause journey with science in action.
Trace your health
Log your mood, symptoms, journal, self care & nutrition multiple times a day!
Get more from your appointments
Cut down on Appointment costs. Advocate with evidence using your individualised MIMOSA health logs all in one place.
Detailed Analytics
Leverage on MIMOSA’s predictive intelligence and handle experiences within your control. HRT isn’t the first call.
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A message from the Founder and CEO
We imagine a world where every female receives the care and companionship she needs, regardless of her health, family, and socio-economic status
For integrated menopause care, there are 3 key challenges that we are tackling – Misinformation, Misdiagnosis, and Mismanagement. We unite academic research, clinical excellence, and computational science to enable safe and inclusive menopause.
_ Jyoti Sharma
WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE
We are solving the problem through science in action for generations to come!
We are not selling hormone-testing kits, gels, creams, nutrition supplements, hormones, or your personal data under the guise of a menopause start-up.
- MenOculus® AI is being designed with data diversity and user privacy as the guiding principle
- We are making long term female health equity a priority
- We do not distinguish whether your experience is natural, age-related menopause or early menopause due to surgical, medically induced, or Premature Ovarian Insufficiency (POI)
- We unite academic research, clinical excellence, and computational science to enable safe and inclusive menopause
LESSER KNOWN SCIENTIFIC FACTS
Menopause Is Not Just Age Related Or Hot Flushes
Hormonal Changes
Reproductive and hormonal changes occur throughout a person’s lifetime.. Menopause is a natural transition and developmental stage for a naturally healthy woman when she begins to transform from being fertile to non-fertile.
Individual Differences
A woman’s body is as unique as a snowflake! Just a few factors that make your menopause health unique are – lifestyle, contraceptive and reproductive choices, family history, medical history, ethnicity, socio-economic status, nutrition among others.
Early Menopause
A menstruating female can be diagnosed with early menopause due to genetic, developmental factors, or induced from medication, reproductive surgeries or acute stressful life events producing hormonal shifts in the natural menstrual cycle.
YOUR PERSONALISED HEALTH GPS
With You From Puberty To Post Menopause
WE ARE LISTENING
We are changing the conversation
Menopause is not a uniform experience and can happen to a woman at any age.
Many people believe that Menopause only affects people assigned female at birth (AFAB) when they enter the later stages of their reproductive journey.
The popular belief (myth) is that there is a definite number (34, 45, 51…..) of symptoms experienced by each woman.
ONGOING RESEARCH STUDIES
By participating in the studies, you will be part of a global movement for delivering evidence-based and integrated menopause care.
To be eligible, you DO NOT NEED to have any known peri/post
menopause symptoms and may be perfectly healthy.
Your participation will inform our women’s digital health app for use by the NHS in the UK and other healthcare providers globally.
Menopause intelligent leadership study – Run by researchers, consultants, and members of the British Psychological Society.
An opportunity for your inclusive and transformational leadership to inform AI-driven solutions for Menopause support at the workplace and create your mark as a female-friendly and inclusive leader.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Indian-British Founder. Innovator. Advocate.
TaraCares was founded by Jyoti Sharma who brings 22 years of international intrapreneurial experience in management consulting, sales, and delivery of large-scale human-centered technology-enabled digital transformations with SAP, Microsoft, Qualtrics, and other software technology firms. Jyoti has worked with clients across the Americas and Europe, the Middle East, India, and Africa (EMEIA), and is an SAP Press bestselling author and international speaker on digital transformation. She specializes in Life Sciences and has worked with Johnson & Johnson (USA), Bayer (Germany), Grifols (Spain), Pfizer (UK), GSK (UK), and other pharmaceutical companies.
She holds a Bachelor’s in Psychology, MBA, MA in Economics, and graduated in MSc Psychology (health) in October 2022 from the University of Westminster, London. She is a graduate member of the British Psychological Society (BPS).
The pandemic forced Jyoti to re-evaluate her true calling while leading a strategic pandemic response initiative for the EMEIA board at Ernst & Young (EY) working with 80+ countries to resolve the COVID crisis. In December 2021, while going through the partnership process at EY, she decided to close a thriving consulting career as a high-growth executive leader and went back to school to complete her MSc in Psychology with merit from the University of Westminster, London.
While discussing PhD offers from prestigious universities in England (University College London, King’s College London), and Australia (Monash University), she arrived at the tough conclusion that a conventional PhD was not equipped to translate her ambition for scale and impact that she wanted from her research for ground-breaking innovation in women’s health.
TaraCares was founded in May 2022 to address the public health challenge of menopause, foster a respectful dialogue through global collaboration, and offer AI-driven solutions to enhance the menopause transition experience and accelerate physiological and psychological health improvements for women and individuals AFAB.
“TaraCares is a living tribute to my single parent, mother and my late father, I celebrate in embodied value-led actions.”
A little back story
- Nov 2022
First Hire 🥳
- Nov 2022
Product Strategy and MVP Prototype
- Oct 2022
Menopause clinical education
- Sep 2022
Winner of Innovate UK Fast Start award
- Sep 2022
Selected for 1st pitch at Founders Live London
- Aug 2022
Selected for 2nd pitch at TechNation York Fest
- Aug 2022
Academic research collaborations for Maths and Data Science University of York (UoY)
- Jul 2022
Accepted into Phase One accelerator
- Jul 2022
Academic research collaborations for Explainable AI University of Huddersfield (UoH)
- May 2022
Founded TaraCares
Events
The Inaugural MedFem Tech Congress - Paris
Femtech World Debate
GIANT Health Conference
Tech Nation
Tech Nation's York Fest
Founders Live London
36
Collaborators
100 +
Community members
3
Award recognition & nominations
Why the urgency?
By 2025 over 1 billion women will be experiencing menopause. That is 12% of the world’s population.
Safe and inclusive care with MenOculus Ai innovation pathways:
Awareness Ai will be used by individuals who benefit from:
Individualised reproductive and post-reproductive transition profile
Symptom tracking
Personalised health plans
Recommendations for clinical consultation and/or lifestyle management.
Diagnostic Ai will be used in clinical practice to improve adherence to menopause practice guidelines, diagnostic precision, predictive power, and velocity for integrated menopause care.
Management Ai will be used in clinical practice for individualised, targeted, and tailored prescription models of hormonal and alternative treatment pathways.
We envision healthcare providers embedding our platform into their e-health systems to expand access to care, diversify patient coverage, and achieve health parity for females.
Meet the team
Introducing the group of experts and advisors that are uniquely positioned to solve this problem.
Featured content
I left my career due to menopause”: TaraCares reveals women’s response to UK government’s decision to reject law reform
TaraCares: London and York based start-up to address stigma, silence and suffering of the menopause transition experience
Insider Insight: Jyoti Sharma, founder and CEO of TaraCares
Masterclass: Ethical Entrepreneurship driving female menopause health and evidence and parity
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Our supporters
They got us started!
I know Jyoti as a brilliant professional with a wealth of knowledge and very broad academic and work experience. She is very purposeful, with an active life position, capable of igniting and inspiring multiple teams regardless of the working model. I came to know through our co-operation in her capacity as an Executive Director of EY EMEA Center of Excellence. We worked together in a cross-country team with Jyoti as a Leader responsible for development of EY global methodology for Experience Management and defining a stack of technologies, set of specific tools and the approach to their application. I cannot wait to see the breakthrough impact she creates in women's health with TaraCares with such a strong foundation to start as a Healthtech Founder. Good luck to the team at TaraCares.
Olga GorbanovskayaPartner, EY Ukraine and Head of People Advisory Services, Central Europe. 
Jyoti Sharma is not only a smart, amazing woman; culturally aware; good friend, and more, and she is a true chameleon! From a career in HR technology she has re-invented herself in a value-added personality in the medical start-up world. Kudos to you, girl, and I hope your initiative will get all the investments, attention and success it truly deserves!
Chiara BersanoGlobal Go To Market Strategy, SAP. 
Jyoti, what drove you on EY's strategic pan EMEA pro bono COVID response initiative was playing a role with technology in saving lives, I am confident that you will create similar monumental breakthrough impact in menopause healthcare. So proud of you being an EY alumnus. Good luck!
Tom Velema Partner EY, Netherlands 
Jyoti, I watched your pitch at Founders Live London and it was top notch! Your confidence, clarity, and energetic tone conveyed not only the passion but the importance of the mission you've undertaken. TaraCares is purposeful, bold, necessary, and simply wonderful. Rooting for you.
Dauda JammehHead of Finance Operations, Beazley
Jyoti, I watched your pitch at Founders Live London and it was top notch! Your confidence, clarity, and energetic tone conveyed not only the passion but the importance of the mission you've undertaken. TaraCares is purposeful, bold, necessary, and simply wonderful. Rooting for you.
Dauda JammehHead of Finance Operations, Beazley 
I'm so honoured to have been involved with TaraCares from an early point in their start up journey. The work that they are doing is key to helping many millions of women to understand and manage their menopause journey better. It has been a joy to work with them and witness their dedication first hand.
Alice IngramBusiness Development WNY Chamber, North Yorkshire 
Jyoti, having known you for 16 years, your commitment, passion, and successful trajectory I am excited to see the breakthroughs you will achieve with TaraCares. Our best wishes are always with you.
Moulik ShahCEO and Founder, MaxisIT, USA 
Jyoti, having worked closely with you on clients such as Bayer, I have seen first hand, your passion evidenced with action both from an innovation, people, and commercial perspective. I wish impact and commercial success to your mission-led venture. Good luck!
Markus HeinenPartner EY, Germany
I believe in your mission of empowering women with evidence based scientific information about their health so that they can make an informed choices when it comes to health and well-being matters.
Prof. Vikram TalaulikarSpecialist Reproductive Medicine, UCLH, UK 
It’s not every day you discover a founder and innovator whose passions and pursuits align so well with your own. I'm thrilled to be a part of your entrepreneurial journey. Every ounce of me believes in you and TaraCares. I know your innovation will make the world a better place.
Lori Beth De HertoghAssociate Professor, JMU, USA 
Our supporters
What our user group had to say about the solution
It is straight forward, simple, direct, I like it - 43 year old Indian-British female living in London, UK.
The objective of this app will be to equip women with all the information they need to understand, prepare and manage menopause. Full circle. From that angle, yes all my questions are listed out there- 42 year old Indian origin female.
I love the interface, looks super professional, and user friendly - 41 year old American origin female living in Virginia, USA.
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