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selene

Most supplements don't know what day of your cycle it is.

Selene does.

$50B
women's health market
$177B
global supplement market
80%
of women underserved

The problem

The same four bottles. Thirty years. Wrong.

One formula. All month. Designed for an average body on an average day — which is not how bodies work, and the supplement industry has always known it.

Your nutritional needs on day 3 are nothing like day 19. They're even more different if you have PCOS, PMDD, or are in perimenopause. Those three things affect more than 40% of women. No product at scale has ever accounted for any of it.

Until now.

80%
of women report PMS symptoms affecting daily function
1 in 10
women have PCOS — a fundamentally different supplement need
40–60%
reduction in PMS achievable with targeted supplementation
$1B+
in annual US productivity losses from menstrual symptoms

The product

One pouch. Your day. Done.

Selene runs on your cycle — a 28-day pack, each day's pouch loaded with exactly what your body needs at that phase. Log your period start, answer a short quiz, and Selene takes it from there. Connect an Oura Ring and it reads your skin temperature to confirm ovulation instead of guessing. Each pouch is named — Pain Patrol, Go Mode, The Unwind — so there's nothing to figure out at 6am before a training session.

Menstrual
Days 1–5
The UnwindEvening
Anti-FlameMorning
ReplenishMorning
Pain PatrolWith meal
Follicular
Days 6–13
Fuel UpMorning
Go ModeMorning
SunshineMorning
Clear SkinEvening
Ovulatory
Days 14–16
Heat WaveMorning
Egg PowerMorning
Serotonin SeedMorning
+ ArdorTonight
Luteal
Days 17–28
The BalancerMorning
Mood LiftEvening
PMS ShieldEvening
The UnwindEvening

Ardor — intimate wellness, timed to your cycle

A small nightly insert that increases blood flow, warmth, and natural lubrication while supporting the vaginal microbiome. It shows up in your pack automatically on ovulatory and luteal days — the days your body is most receptive. Not a product you remember to use. Part of the ritual.

The personalization

18 profiles. One that actually fits you.

A PCOS user and a PMDD user follow the same 28-day calendar but their packs look completely different. Selene detects which of 18 hormonal profiles fits you — from an audio intake, a short quiz, and your wearable data — then adjusts the stack automatically. No manual toggling. No re-ordering different products. You just open the pouch.

In Flow

Healthy baseline. Phase-optimised base stack across all four phases.

The Training Block

Athlete protocol. Creatine, electrolytes, and recovery compounds phased around cycle load tolerance.

Your Own Rhythm

HRT or no-cycle users. Static optimised stack, no phase rotation.

🌩️The Dark Window

PMDD. Saffron + Calcium + L-Theanine in luteal — clinical-grade without Rx.

🌱The Fourth Trimester

Postpartum. Methylfolate, D3, DHA, ashwagandha for depletion recovery.

🌊The Heavy Phase

Estrogen dominance. DIM + Calcium D-Glucarate shifts estrogen metabolism.

🌅The Shift

Perimenopause. Black Cohosh + Red Clover + Selenium for hot flashes and irregular cycles.

🔄Out of Sync

PCOS. Inositol + Berberine + Spearmint replaces base stack — addresses insulin and androgen axis.

🔥More Than Cramps

Endometriosis. Anti-inflammatory stack: curcumin, NAC, omega-3 at therapeutic doses.

💧The Monthly Flood

Fibroids. Iron repletion, nattokinase, vitamin K2 — manages heavy-flow consequences.

🕊️The Crash Before

Low progesterone. Vitex + Ashwagandha + B6 deepened in luteal phase.

🌸Building Toward

Fertility/TTC. CoQ10 at 600mg, DHEA, methylfolate, zinc — egg quality protocol.

🌿The New Chapter

Post-menopause. Bone density focus: D3 + K2 + boron + magnesium glycinate.

🌟Just Beginning

Teen protocol. Lower doses, gentle adaptogens, iron and B12 for early cycles.

⏸️The Paused Cycle

Hypothalamic amenorrhea / stress. Adaptogens, caloric-density nudges, bone protection.

Starting Fresh

Post-pill. DIM to clear synthetic estrogen, B12/B6 repletion, rebalancing stack.

🦋The Hidden Weight

Thyroid. Selenium + Methylfolate + D3 + iodine targeted stack.

🫧Running on Empty

Low estrogen. Red Clover + Maca + Vegan Glow for atrophic and low-drive symptoms.

Sample pouch — Day 19 · Luteal · PMDD profile

☀️ Morning
  • Serotonin Seed (B6, 50mg) · with food
  • Sunshine (D3, 2000 IU) · with food
🍽️ With lunch
  • PMS Shield (Calcium, 500mg)
  • Liver Love (Ca D-Glucarate, 500mg)
🌙 Evening
  • The Unwind (Magnesium, 300mg) · before bed
  • Mood Lift (Saffron, 30mg) · with food
  • Calm Focus (L-Theanine, 200mg)

Revenue model

Subscription. High margin. Hard to quit.

Essential
$39/mo
4 capsules/day, phase base protocol — NSF tested, 100% vegan
Targeted
$59/mo
8 capsules + 1 powder pouch, adds hormone profile + lifestyle flags
Full Protocol
$79/mo
Unlimited capsules + 3 powder pouches, wearable sync, all goals

Unit Economics

COGS (supplements + fulfillment)$20–29/mo
Gross margin (Targeted tier)~51%
Blended ARPU target (Year 2)$75/mo
Target CAC (content + referral heavy)<$85 blended
Annual conversion target>30% (2 mo free)
Avg retention (comparable category)14 months
LTV at 14-month retention$1,050
LTV:CAC ratio12–18x

Path to $12M ARR

Conservative. Achievable. Two years.

MilestoneSubsARPUARRWhen
F&F beta25$55$16KApril 2026
Waitlist launch250$60$180KQ3 2026
Influencer + PR push1,500$68$1.2MQ1 2027
Retail pilot (Ulta/Target)6,000$75$5.4MQ3 2027
Scale + clinical data13,000$82$12.8MQ2 2028

Why nobody catches up

Four advantages that compound.

Wearable-confirmed ovulation

Oura skin temperature catches the LH surge days before calendar math would. Your phase shifts in real time. Every competitor is still guessing. Selene is reading your body.

18 hormonal profiles — detected, not assumed

PCOS, endometriosis, PMDD, perimenopause, postpartum, fertility, thyroid, post-pill, teen, and 9 more. Each gets a completely different stack. Audio intake plus symptom quiz plus wearable data figures out which one fits — automatically, at signup.

Ardor — a category nobody owns yet

The only cycle-timed intimate wellness product on the market. No supplement brand plays here. No intimate brand has the cycle data to enter. It drops into your routine on exactly the days your body wants it.

The data flywheel

Every symptom log sharpens the model for every user. At 10K subscribers, Selene holds more cycle-supplement response data than any clinical study ever run. The database is the moat.

Intellectual property

Three provisionals filed. Nobody else has.

Selene and Ardor are protected by three co-pending provisional patent applications covering composition, device, and platform. No funded competitor has filed on cycle-phase-timed intravaginal delivery combined with wearable-informed supplement personalization. We looked.

P1 · Composition + Method
Ardor Insert & Cycle-Sync
  • ·Vasodilatory + thermogenic + probiotic vaginal insert
  • ·Synthetic beneficial fluid formulation
  • ·Wearable-confirmed cycle-phase timing
  • ·Multi-product coordination system
P2 · Device
Wellness Delivery Device
  • ·Reservoir + pump + app-triggered ejection
  • ·Replaceable wellness payload cartridge
  • ·BLE cycle-phase delivery trigger
  • ·Thermal payload regulation (37–39°C)
P3 · Platform
Adaptive Supplement System
  • ·Four phase-specific oral formulations
  • ·Pre-loading protocol (1–3 days before phase shift)
  • ·Per-user cycle fingerprint model
  • ·Cross-product timing coordination
3 filed
Provisional applications
Patent pending
Status
Ardor · Selene
Trademarks
None known
Competitor filings on this

The landscape

Everyone picked a lane. We're the only one in all three.

Cycle-intelligent supplementation. Hormonal profile personalization. Intimate wellness. No funded competitor sits at that intersection. They each stopped at one.

CompetitorRaisedWhat Selene has that they don't
Perelel$9.5MStatic 4-bottle system — no personalization, no hormone profiling, no intimate layer
Bonafide$40M+Menopause only — no cycle intelligence, no wearable integration
DAYE$8MSingle CBD tampon, UK-only — no supplement stack
Evvy$25MMicrobiome diagnostic only — no delivery, no supplements
Flo / Clue$200M+Tracking apps — no product, no supplements, no revenue per pack

The science

The ingredients are proven. The delivery is the breakthrough.

Selene makes no drug claims. It doesn't need to. Every compound in the library has published clinical evidence. The breakthrough isn't the ingredients — it's getting the right one, at the right dose, on the right day, for the right hormonal profile.

That last mile has never been built at consumer scale. That's the product.

Saffron 30mg
Comparable to fluoxetine for PMS mood symptoms in RCTs
Magnesium 300mg
40% reduction in menstrual pain severity
Calcium 500mg in luteal phase
48% reduction in overall PMS symptom score
Vitex (Chasteberry) 400mg
Reduces PMS in 52% of users vs 24% placebo
Myo-Inositol 2g (PCOS)
Restores ovulation in PCOS across multiple RCTs
Spearmint extract (PCOS)
Reduces free testosterone — equivalent to 2 cups/day

The opportunity

Live. Early. Moving.

Selene is live today. F&F trial underway. 18 hormonal profiles, 39+ OTC ingredients, NSF batch tested, 100% vegan, wearable biodata integration, predictive phase analytics — all built. Works on calendar math alone and gets sharper as users connect wearables or import from Flo/Clue/Apple Health.

We're not raising a formal round yet. If you want to be part of building this, it starts with a coffee.

StagePre-seed / MVP live
Target ARR (24 mo)$12M
Gross margin target~51% (full quality stack)
LTV:CAC target12–18x
Ingredients in library39+ OTC, evidence-backed
Hormonal profiles18 — auto-detected
CategoryFemtech · Supplement · Intimate wellness
Built bySteps Ventures

selene · steps ventures · confidential · may 2026