Peanut: The woman who shook up dating with Bumble launches app to connect lonely and isolated mothers

When Michelle Kennedy had her first baby, she realised that nothing is capable of preparing you for the numbing isolation and loneliness that motherhood can entail. Integral to the launch of the highly successful dating app Bumble and a former executive of the European social networking site Badoo, Ms Kennedy said that she felt that modern parenting involved a new language that she didn't speak. So in the spirit of a true entrepreneur, she decided to transform her frustration into an opportunity. Ms Kennedy created a brand new app called Peanut, which aims to break the stigma around motherhood and help women--just like herself--to make meaningful connections based on common values and interests during this new--often scary and almost always transformative--phase of their lives. "There is still a stigma [about motherhood]on two levels," she told the Independent.