I am Tanisha Srivastava, a final year Robotics Engineering student at Queen Mary University of London, graduating in 2027. I won the Meredith Thring Award in 2026. Alongside my degree, I founded HORMONIQ, a training and hormonal data platform for women who strength train. Building communities comes naturally to me: as a PASS Student Organiser, I grew a mentee group from zero to over 160. I previously interned as an engineer at Amazon, and outside work I practise callisthenics.

My business 

HORMONIQ is a training and hormonal data platform for women who strength train. Athletes log their lifts, energy and mood, and HORMONIQ maps this information against their hormonal cycle to help them identify their own performance patterns, even when these differ from general advice. It does not prescribe workouts. Instead, it gives athletes, and their trainers with their consent, evidence drawn from their own data. Most cycle apps ignore training data, while most training apps ignore the cycle. I am currently running a pilot with a small cohort. 

I am an entrepreneur because. . . 

I am an entrepreneur because no woman should quit training because of guesswork about her own body. I want to help women make their training work in harmony with their bodies. 

The problem I am trying to solve, and why it matters to me 

Most training advice for women relies on population averages and guesswork. The hormonal cycle is either ignored or treated as a limitation, leaving women who strength train with rules that may not suit their own bodies. This matters to me because I experienced it myself. When I began taking gym training and callisthenics seriously, I noticed my performance changing from week to week, but the advice I found was too generic. Conversations with 30 women who train seriously confirmed this gap. Through HORMONIQ, I want to help women understand their own patterns and make decisions based on their own evidence, so they can sustain their training for years on their own terms. 

How Queen Mary supported my journey 

At Queen Mary, HORMONIQ won QIdea in 2025 and reached the QIncubator finals. 

The advice I would give to a Queen Mary student or graduate who is considering starting something of their own 

Entrepreneurship often begins before you feel ready. As a student, this is a great time to take a risk: if not now, when? You have access to a huge community of researchers, experts, university ventures and support services right on your doorstep, so make full use of them and get started. If you are unsure where to begin, get involved with the QUEST team and see where it leads. You will be glad you tried.