Symptone was born from a personal experience. Our founder, a woman of color who struggled with a medical condition that took an extended time to diagnose because she couldn’t find images showing how the condition presented on skin that looked like hers. This frustrating and potentially dangerous experience revealed a systemic problem: medical education predominantly teaches diagnosis using images of conditions on light skin, leaving a critical gap in physicians’ ability to recognize and diagnose conditions on darker skin tones. Determined to prevent others from facing similar delays in care, she established Symptone to transform how medical conditions are taught and visualized across all skin tones.