Disrupting the romance industry by championing human connection Dr. Brittany Barreto has a vision to open doors and hearts through science as the co-founder and CEO of Pheramor, a DNA-based dating app, and WeHaveChemistry, a web-based platform for couples to discover their love alchemy. A decade before the genetic testing market was accepted by the mass market, Brittany was an undergraduate student at Drew University. It was during her college career that she first thought of the idea of sequencing attraction genes to help singles find true love and couples to enhance their existing relationship, an idea she shared with a professor who shrugged it off and didn’t encourage her to follow her vision for a company that is valued at $6M today. Her tenacity for the idea that would become Pheramor and WeHaveChemistry didn’t dissipate as she continued to study Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine and shortly after raised over $1M to build, launch, and grow her romance technology. The Pheramor dating app is downloaded in every state and WeHaveChemistry couple’s website is launching this quarter in collaboration with Dr. Laura Berman. Dr. Barreto gained the illustrious Top 100 Young Executives in America by The Business Journal, HYPE Impact winner, Women to Watch Award, VCIC’s Startup of the Year, InnoStar’s Best in Show, and Startup Grind’s Top 2 Startup of the year globally. As a conscious leader, Brittany makes time to mentor founders of new startups and hosts entrepreneur dinner parties at her apartment in Houston, where she resides with her rescue dogs, Trypsin and Quark.
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