Women Entrepreneurs Fund Winner – Lizzy Leonard
- May 5
- 2 min read
Syncing with your Cycle: Lizzy Leonard's Smart Meal-Planning Platform
The Women Entrepreneur’s Fund is back with another round of $10,000 grants for female business founders – moving the needle ever-closer to an equitable startup system. Thanks to the continued support and vision of donor Joy Shivas, we have three more remarkable winners to celebrate.
Lizzy Leonard has launched an innovative SAAS product you’ll want to sink your teeth into. Born out of her own experiments with bulk cooking and aligning her diet and cycle, Lizzy has developed a platform that generates wholefood bulk-cooking recipes and grocery lists tailored to women’s hormonal phases.
Frustrated by the lack of dietary research for women’s bodies, and having experienced debilitating period pain and headaches, Lizzy set out to create her own bulk cooking approach that could be tailored to her mood and menstrual cycle. The results were staggering: no pain, no headaches, and an entirely new career trajectory.
Her experiments culminated in MyBulkCook: a digital platform that combines the power of bulk cooking, recipe generation, hormone cycles and shopping lists in one place. It also offers the convenience of adding custom recipes and dietary preferences.
Whether you're cycling, peri-menopausal, or menopausal, MyBulkCook provides women with personalised recipe recommendations based on their symptoms, preferences, and hormonal fluctuations. Ingredients are automatically filtered to prioritise nutrient-rich options, and a signature “strictness” dial helps users fine-tune their nutrition goals.
Lizzy says receiving the grant, which has been dedicated to support female startup founders with living expenses, was “a little bit like the adult version of Christmas.”
“I think to have a female-based grant believe so much in a female-based product is incredible [...] I don’t think I’ve ever had a group of women turn around and go ‘Hell yeah. This is great. Let’s give you some backing.’”
The support couldn’t have come at a better time for Lizzy, who, until now, has been bootstrapping the entire venture herself. The $10,000 grant will give her much-needed breathing room to cover her living costs while she works full time on the next stage of her business – including a new product line.
The benefits of innovations like MyBulkCook extend well beyond individual women’s health to encompass whānau, workplace, and community wellbeing. When women thrive, we all thrive – just as Joy envisioned.
Congratulations, Lizzy!
