Period Care company Lunette has launched a new intimate care product line to join its popular Menstrual Cup. The new Lunette Intimate Cleanser and Lunette Intimate Wipes are the first to be a part of Lunette’s expansion into more holistic, intimate care. Like its original Menstrual Cup, both new, products are crafted with Nordic plant-based ingredients. The soap-free Lunette Intimate Cleanser moisturizes by…
Elevate Ventures has announced the five winners of its second annual Elevate Pitch Competition and among them is femtech startup Menstrual Mates. The company has been awarded $40K in pre-seed funding. Menstrual Mates is an inclusive period care e-commerce company: “Historically, people have dismissed women and menstruators’ needs. However, we’ve listened, we’ve researched, and now we’re doing something about it. We created…
“Everytime I would go to dinner with my friend, we would be in the car for about five minutes before her birth control alarm went off. When it went off, it always went one of two ways – she would skip her pill, or we would turn around to grab her pill, ultimately missing dinner”, shares Sammie Hasen a Georgia Tech student…
Power to Decide is a private, non-partisan, non-profit organization in the U.S. that works to ensure all people, no matter who they are, where they live or what their economic status might be, have the power to decide if, when and under what circumstances to get pregnant or have a child. This week the organization announced the inclusion of telehealth abortion providers in…
It’s World Contraception Day on Sunday and as every year the goal is to spread the word and raise awareness about contraception and safe sex, to help each new generation of adults make informed decisions until every pregnancy in the world is a planned one. And we’re excited to be teaming up with UK-based startup The Lowdown on this mission this year.…
Every Thursday we send out a curated newsletter on “all things femtech and women’s health innovation”. This is the latest edition. If you’re interested in subscribing, you can do so at the bottom of this page. Highlights Seven Starling launches with $2.9M in funding to support parents during pregnancy and beyond. Alpha Medical raises $24M to reinvent women’s primary care. Famtech startup Koble raises a $1M pre-seed round for its parenting platform.…
Merck spin-off Organon, a global women’s health pharma company that launched earlier this year, is launching its first awareness campaign to raise awareness and ignite a worldwide conversation about the staggering rates of unplanned pregnancy around the world. Worldwide, unplanned pregnancy impacts approximately 121 million women each year. A 2019 study reported that globally, more than 1 billion women have a need for…
Women’s telehealth company Alpha Medical has raised a $24 million Series B to reinvent women’s virtual primary care. Alpha provides the highest quality medical care in a convenient and affordable online process that allows patients to have the same care team each visit. Investors in this round include SpringRock Ventures, Margo Georgiadis, Outcomes Collective Growth Capital, FMZ Ventures, Samsung Next, Chamaeleon, AV8 Ventures, and GSR Ventures.…
