Motherhood has always run on resilience.
We're building the systems it deserves.
Matresa is a clinically grounded maternal health platform supporting mothers from pregnancy through postnatal recovery and return to work, and giving employers the data to support them properly. Launching in the UK in August 2026. Coming to the US.
Founding Members get early access, their first month free, and help shape the platform.
Motherhood isn't broken.
The systems around it are.
Support for mothers still stops where real life begins.
Between appointments. During recovery. Throughout the sleepless weeks nobody prepares you for. And on the day you walk back into work pretending you're the same person who left.
The NHS does what it can. Employers mean well. But no single system sees the whole picture.
And the cost of that gap is enormous, for mothers, for families, and for organisations losing experienced women they can't afford to lose.
Where the system fails mothers
Health
1 in 5 mothers experience perinatal mental health issues, yet maternal care remains episodic and reactive. Once appointments become less frequent, mothers are largely left to navigate their recovery alone, with no continuous clinical layer watching for what comes next.(Bauer et al., 2014)
Work
Most employers still treat maternity as a leave event rather than a health and workforce transition. The result is under-supported returns, confidence loss, and avoidable attrition of experienced female talent.
Home
Recovery, identity shift, infant development, relationships, mental load, all of these shape maternal health. Yet support is almost never designed around how motherhood is actually lived.
What Matresa is
This is not another wellness app.
Matresa is a clinically grounded maternal health platform, a registered Class I medical device with Class IIa development underway, built on validated clinical screening tools and developed in partnership with Warwick University.
It combines structured clinical screening, personalised daily check-ins, ambient appointment recording, weekly insights, and a clinically moderated community into one continuous record that stays with a mother from her first trimester through her first year back at work.
Not a point solution. Not a content feed. The connective layer between health, work, and home that maternal care has always been missing.
How it works
A more connected way to support maternal health
Capture
Matresa surfaces signals through daily check-ins, structured clinical screening, symptom logging, and ambient appointment recording. Nothing important gets lost between appointments.
Interpret
Matresa's clinical intelligence layer, built on validated screening tools and NICE-approved pathways, turns experiences and signals into meaningful understanding of a mother's recovery and wellbeing.
Personalise
Every mother receives guidance and next steps that reflect her specific journey, her symptoms, her history, her stage, her circumstances. Not generic advice. Her situation.
Connect
Matresa aligns support between the mother, her workplace, and her care system, so that the right people have the right information at the right time, and no one is working from an incomplete picture.
The results speak for themselves.
+20%
Productivity improvement
Wellbeing score 5.2 → 7.8 — Big Four firm, 2025(Matresa, 2025)
14,500+
Mothers in our community
Before we've launched a single product
1,205
Founding Member waitlist signups
Zero paid marketing spend
$14.2bn
Annual cost of untreated maternal mental health in the US
(Mathematica / GWU Policy Center, 2026)
"The baby comes. And the mother is forgotten."
Dame Lesley Regan, Head of Women's Health Strategy, UK Government (Regan, 2026)
For mothers
You prepared for the birth. Nobody prepared you for everything after.
Matresa supports you from your first trimester through postnatal recovery and back to work, with clinically grounded daily check-ins, structured screening, appointment recording, weekly insights, and a safe community of mothers at exactly the same stage as you.
- Developing as a regulated medical device
- Built on validated clinical screening tools
- Clinically moderated. Personalised to you.
For employers
54% of women leave their employer within a year of returning from maternity leave. (Matri, 2025)
That is not a culture problem. It is an infrastructure problem.
Matresa gives HR and People teams anonymised workforce readiness scores, cohort-level insights, and structured maternal health support, enabling earlier intervention, better returns, and measurable retention outcomes.
Piloted with a Big Four professional services firm. In active commercial discussions with leading Tier 1 financial institutions.
Individual health data is always private and belongs to the mother. Employers only ever see anonymised, aggregated insight.
Clinical credibility
Built on clinical evidence.
Not good intentions.
Matresa is not a wellness product that mentions mental health. It is a registered Class I medical device, with Class IIa preparation underway, developed in partnership with Warwick University, built on validated clinical screening tools including NICE-approved care pathways, and overseen by a clinical advisory board including perinatal psychologists, obstetricians, and gynaecologists.
The team
Built by people who lived the problem.
Matresa was founded by a nurse, a repeat health builder, and a clinical team who have spent their careers at the intersection of maternal health, technology, and healthcare systems.
Mari-Carmen Sanchez-Morris
Founder & CEO
Paediatric Intensive Care nurse. Repeat health founder. Mother of three who lived the fragmentation of maternal care personally. Built a community of 14,500+ mothers before launching a single product.
Beverley Brown
Director & NED
Successful exited founder with global scaling experience. Deep network across finance, enterprise, and government. Leading B2B pipeline and business development.
Martin Green
Chief Technical Officer
29 years building enterprise and healthcare software. Delivered 150+ systems for NHS and global corporates. Leading platform architecture and technical build.
Molly Nunn
Founder's Associate
MSc Bioscience Innovation and Enterprise. Experience across pharma, biotech, and healthcare strategy. Supporting product launch, marketing, and company growth.
Medical Advisory Board
Dr Ameet Bakhai
Clinical Safety Officer & Clinician
Liba Stones
Research & Evidence
Dr Agne Raneberg
Perinatal Psychologist
Dawn Cannon
Parent & Infant Health Specialist
Lara Taylor
Specialist Midwife
Warwick University
Research Partnership
Backed by SFC Capital, Health Innovation South London, and Innovate UK. DigitalHealth.London, Accelerate FemTech, and the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists.
A better maternal support system starts here.
For mothers. For employers. For the system.
Matresa launches August 2026.