An ISMIN graduate in 2022, Inès Ben Amor is now at the helm of the startup Luna for Health, an application that guides women toward the right care pathway.
Supported by our TEAM incubator, Inès has just inaugurated the second Luna medical center in Marseille, alongside gynecological surgeons Jean-Philippe Estrade, Brice Gurriet, and Bertrand Gachon. From the mobile application to the medical practice dedicated to women’s health, Inès Ben Amor shares her journey, her commitment, and her ambitious future projects.
👉 Can you tell us about Luna for Health?
Luna for Health was born from a fairly simple observation: today, millions of women live with cycle-related symptoms, including endometriosis, without being correctly guided through the healthcare system. We therefore built an application that allows users to evaluate their symptoms, receive support from healthcare professionals, and, above all, be guided toward the right pathways—diagnosis, imaging, and follow-up.
Our goal is not just to inform, but to truly help take action.
To date, Luna has helped confirm the diagnosis of more than 80,000 women in France. We are also deployed in around thirty companies, at Aix-Marseille University, and in more than 360 pharmacies throughout France. We are working more and more with employers because women’s health still remains largely invisible in the workplace, even though it has a direct impact on performance, engagement, and professional equality.
👉 What was the turning point that sparked your interest in women’s health?
The real turning point was meeting Dr Jean-Philippe Estrade, a surgeon specialising in endometriosis and now co-founder of Luna. Through him, I discovered the reality of care pathways: years of medical wandering, very severe pain, and patients who are not listened to or are poorly referred.
It is something you don’t realize until you are faced with it up close.
At the same time, with my background in AI, I also realized how unstructured these subjects were from a data perspective, even though there were many signals to capture.
It was truly at the intersection of the two that Luna was born: on one hand, a very concrete medical reality, and on the other, a strong conviction that technology could help better guide, objectify, and accelerate care pathways. And very quickly, I understood that the subject went far beyond the medical—it is also a social, professional, and even political issue.
👉 How did TEAM support you in the development of your startup?
Above all, TEAM provided me with very human support.
Beyond the formal programs, what really mattered were the conversations, the quality of the exchanges, and having people to talk to at key moments. Entrepreneurship can be quite lonely, and having people who understand, listen, and also challenge you makes a real difference.
It is almost like an “entrepreneur’s therapist” role at times—with the addition of concrete advice based on real experiences. This relationship of trust and support was invaluable, especially during phases where everything is still uncertain.
👉 Aix-en-Provence, now Marseille—what is the next step for Luna for Health?
We are clearly scaling up.
After working extensively on the product, we are now deploying physical locations with Luna Centers to create more fluid and coordinated care pathways. Marseille is an important step, but it is only the beginning. At the same time, we are significantly accelerating deployment in companies, with real demand from employers. We are now looking to expand into even more companies to concretely integrate these issues into HR policies.
And internationally, we have just reached an important milestone: we are winners of a global UNICEF call for projects. This will allow us to deploy Luna in Africa starting next year, particularly in Tunisia and Morocco. The ambition remains the same: to ensure that millions of women can access a diagnosis and a tailored care pathway more quickly.
At Mines Saint-Étienne, we are proud of our alumni and their commitment to a better future. We will be closely following the development of Luna for Health, as Inès Ben Amor is an example for future engineers with ambitious entrepreneurial projects.
We congratulate Inès on this project and thank Marie Breziski, Head of Industrial Relations and Entrepreneurship, for the follow-up and promotion of the projects supported by TEAM.
