A Guest Post by The Case for Her in Celebration of Menstrual Hygiene Day. The Case for Her is a philanthropic investment portfolio focusing on the key women’s health areas of menstruation and sexual health and pleasure. We’re not your typical Femtech investors. We use investing as a tool in our philanthropy and to accomplish our goal of driving more funding into…
1 in 2 women will suffer from UTIs at some point in their life. And according to MERRI’s co-founders synthetic underwear is to blame. Gynecologists recommend wearing cotton underwear to prevent common infections such as thrush, but many women ignore this advice as the designs available are often considered frumpy or unflattering. And this is wehre MERRI comes in. MERRI have designed…
“Prima launched in 2019 by Christopher Gavigan, bestselling author, purpose-driven entrepreneur, and co-founder of The Honest Company, Jessica Assaf, women’s health and cannabis activist, and Laurel Angelica Myers mission-oriented operator and former Honest alum.” (Image: Prima) You’ve found some of our exclusive Inner Circle Content. This article is only available for our Inner Circle Members. To read on: Sign in to your Inner Circle account to…
The consumerization of healthcare is well on the way as the recent rise in popularity of digital health has more and more patients looking for more convenience and an overall better care experience when accessing healthcare services. European VC Heal Capital has built a thesis based on this trend and backs mission-driven, category-defining healthtech companies. At the core of Heal Capital’s thesis…
Babyscripts, a virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, announced today that they are entering into a partnership with the Asian American Health Coalition, dba HOPE Clinic, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving the community of Houston, Texas. The partnership provides pregnant patients who receive care at HOPE Clinic access to the Babyscripts myJourney app and remote monitoring solutions during the entirety…
San Diego-based Lips, an Instagram alternative and soon-to-be social commerce platform built by and especially for women, non-binary folks, and the LGBTQIA+ community is currently raising $50K on Wefunder. The idea behind Lips is to create safe space online for users to express themselves openly and honestly without biased censorship or harassment. Lips was built together with artists, brands, sex workers, BIPOC, and the…
U.K. based healthtech company Forth has announced the launch of a new Female Hormone Mapping product. It has been designed to give women greater insight and understanding about their hormone cycles to improve their wellbeing and provide answers to female hormone specific issues such as perimenopause and menopause. The product will use two blood samples over a single cycle to give women…
Global benefits provider Carrot Fertility has recently announced the expansion of its leadership team with three new hires: Julie Chavez joins as Vice President of Strategy and Alliances from global consulting firm Willis Towers Watson, where she spent 10 years in leadership roles on the national health and benefits team. Brooke Bartholomay Quinn joins as Senior Vice President of Customer Success from…
