💡 Woman, Child and CEO. Stepping Where Even the Devil Wouldn’t.

When I started building FocusZen, nobody told me that creating the app would only be half the journey.

The other half is everyday life — trying to grow a startup while being a single mum, juggling school runs, work, home, and a thousand small decisions that no business book ever prepares you for.

I don’t have a team of developers in an office. I have a laptop, a notebook, and an idea I test, refine and shape every single day.

That’s how FocusZen was born — an app designed to bring calm and clarity to daily life.

Then came FocusZen Kids — a project to help children learn planning and self-organisation in a kind, balanced way, without pressure.

📊 The Numbers Tell Their Own Story

In the world of technology, women are still a minority.

Only around 15% of startups in Europe have at least one female founder.

Those founded solely by women? Less than 10%.

And just 1% of all venture capital funding goes to female-led companies.

That means for every £100 invested in new technology, women receive… one.

Yet studies show that female-founded companies generate nearly twice as much revenue per invested pound as those founded by men.

The conclusion is simple: women do more with less.

👩‍💻 Why I Keep Going

Because I believe apps don’t have to be cold, corporate, or made only for “productive adults.”

FocusZen and FocusZen Kids were born from real life — from the challenge of keeping balance between work, parenting, emotions and time for yourself.

I wanted to build a tool that helps people live calmer, not faster.

I’m not an exception. I’m part of a generation of women who build technology our own way — mixing empathy with logic, creativity with structure, family with ambition.

💬 Why It Matters

As long as statistics keep saying that only 10% of apps come from women, every one of us who builds something new is breaking that barrier.

Not just for ourselves, but for the next generation — for the girls who are ten years old today and see that their mum can build an app that reaches the App Store.

That’s my motivation.

Not to compete.

But to prove that a woman in technology isn’t an exception – she’s the future.

🌿 What’s Next

Today, FocusZen continues to grow. FocusZen Kids is in internal testing.

And I’m still standing at the school gates at 8:30 a.m., phone in one hand, plan for the day in the other.

I don’t have perfect conditions — but I have something stronger: determination and a vision that doesn’t fit into statistics.

Ange M

Founder of FocusZen & FocusZen Kids

Single mum. Dreamer. Builder of an app born between school runs and midnight ideas.

The devil thought he’d seen it all 🤭