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Anna Lee

Anna Lee

annaleebuilds@gmail.com

Anna Lee is an award-winning engineer and inventor who builds products that redefine categories. She is the co-founder and CEO of Lioness, the first smart vibrator to improve sexual pleasure through biofeedback data, and she has spoken on stages around the world about engineering, intimacy, and building for the overlooked.

Building for underestimated categories.

Anna Lee

Co-founder & CEO of Lioness

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The new York Times

CAN YOU OPTIMIZE AN ORGASM?

10 INNOVATORS DISRUPTING HEALTHCARE

Newsweek 
Forbes 30 under 30

CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY

WILL A SMART VIBRATOR REVOLUTIONIZE FEMALE PLEASURE?

The times
bbc

HOW TO ENHANCE YOUR PLEASURE (video)

The Economist

WHY IS THE SEX TOY INDUSTRY BOOMING? (video)

THIS TIKTOK STAR WILL TEACH YOU THE SCIENCE BEHIND SEXUAL PLEASURE

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Awards & Recognition

Awards

  • Johnson & Johnson Women’s Health Innovation Spotlight

  • Popular Science Magazine’s 100 Greatest Inventions

  • Engadget’s Best of CES

  • Forbes 30 Under 30

As Seen On

  • ITV: “Getting Filthy Rich with Olivia Attwood”

Selected Press & Conversations

Press

Vice

I Tried the Lioness Smart Vibrator

This Sex Toy Collects Data for Researchers Studying the Female Orgasm

Discover Magazine

Dazed Digital

Want to See Your Orgasm? Try the Lioness Vibrator

Fierce Electronics

Co-founder and Head Engineer Anna Lee on the Smart Vibrator

Buzzfeed

14 Sextech Founders Changing the Way the World Thinks About Sex

PAPER Magazine

Asian Women Creators You Need to Know

Forbes

How Lioness Built a Women Wellness Brand Selling Women Orgasms

Tatler

Meet the Women Revolutionizing the Sexual Wellness Industry

TechInformed

Women Shifting the Dial in Sex Tech

Podcasts

Osmosis by Elsevier

The Connection Between Female Orgasms and Health

Embodied - NPR / WUNC

The History, Culture, & Future of Sex Toy Technology

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Measuring Your Orgasms & Being a Woman Engineer in Sex Tech

Flightless Bird with David Farrier

Live in San Francisco: Smart Vibrators, Zizians, & The Room

Pleasure Through the Personal Lens

Immigrantly with Saadia Khan

Sexology with Dr. Nazanin Moali

Anna Lee- From Engineering to Smart Vibrator

Talks & Stages

  • Skirt Club: Workshop/ San Francisco. Jul 2025

  • Sexual Health Alliance Annual Sexological Conference: Presentation/ Denver. Oct 2025

  • SF Gazetteer: Fireside Chat/ San Francisco. Nov 2024

  • Össur Company: Fireside Chat/ Reykjavik. May 2024

  • Iceland Innovation Week: Presentation/ Reykjavik. May 2024

  • YPO SF Bay Chapter: Workshop/ San Francisco, May 2023

  • Stanford University: Guest Lecture/ Palo Alto. Nov 2022

  • SexTech EU: Keynote/ Berlin. Oct 2022

  • SXSW: Panel/ Austin. Mar 2022

  • University of Miami: Guest Lecture/ Miami. Mar 2022

  • Brown University and RISD: Guest Lecture/ Providence. Oct 2021

  • IIDA & Gesler: Panel/ San Francisco. May 2021

  • Ada Lovelace Awards: Judge/ New Orleans. Oct 2020

  • University of California, Berkeley: Panel/ Berkeley. Sep 2019