Every Monday we share a quick “best of” from the week that was with our Inner Circle members. What’s trending in the Femtech Insider community and beyond? We’ve got you covered! In this week's brief we talk about...
- Femtech Investment Round-up: June 2022
- Spotlight: Abortion Care Startups
- Startup Spotlight: Beomi & Binyoh
- And more!
Femtech Investment Round-up: June 2022
As every month we share an overview of all the fundraising news we covered on Femtech Insider with you, our Inner Circle audience. Check out our June 2022 Femtech Investment Round-up here or visit our Investment Round-up Archive in the Inner Circle Member Hub.
Some Highlights:
Choix raises $1M in funding to expand access to abortion, sexual and reproductive healthcare.
AiVF raises $25M in Series A funding for its AI-based IVF platform.
Oma Fertility launches with $37.5M in funding to improve IVF outcomes through AI-enabled, empathetic care.
Spotlight: Abortion Care Startups
After last week's news and coverage we've received some enquiries about startups innovating in abortion care. Below is a list with a few we're watching:
Just the Pill: Abortion Delivered is our project to bring mobile clinics to the Texas border! Making abortion more accessible and affordable. Available in MN, MT, WY and CO right now.
Choix is a sexual and reproductive healthcare focused telehealth clinic run by a team of nurse practitioners, doctors, and engineers in California.
HeyJane's virtual clinic model is putting the power back in people’s hands by providing care that’s private, safe, supportive, accessible, and convenient—for less than half the average in-clinic cost of a medication abortion.
Wisp is making sexual healthcare inclusive, cost-effective, and accessible. The company also offers emergency contraception.
U.S. online pharmacy Honeybee Health is distributing abortion pills directly to patients within the country by mail.
Further reading: Throwback to January, when STAT News' Olivia Goodhill wrote a piece on women's telehealth startups and the reasons why only few of them offer abortion pills.
Startup Spotlight
Wanna know which startups get us excited these days? Below are a few of our recent (femtech-healthtech-ish) discoveries. This week we want to share some companies we've seen that make us go "Oh. Well that's interesting!" 👀
Beomi's mission is to provide women and their families with the best, high-quality, integrated, digital healthcare solutions.
Binyoh is a platform focused on bringing tailored health content to African girls and women.
