Peanut’s #RenamingRevolution: “Terms like ‘inhospitable womb,’ ‘geriatric pregnancy,’ ‘spontaneous abortion,’ or ‘advanced maternal age’ have traditionally been used to designate a woman’s reproductive standing. However, this terminology is outdated. The goal with medical terminology should be to educate women and to shift away from blame or hurtful labels. This new glossary will include terms that serve the same purpose while empowering women…
French Women’s Health Startup Nabla has raised €17M for its new app focused on women’s health. Nabla offers community content, chat-based support from an interdisciplinary team of health professionals, and helps users to centralize their medical data. Participating investors in the round include Xavier Niel, well-known for his efforts around startup hub Station F in Paris, Artemis, Rachel Delacour, Julie Pelle, Marc…
London-based Hashimoto startup Hashiona has announced the close of a €450K pre-seed round. The company was founded in early 2020 and initially launched in January 2021. Hashiona has since acquired hundreds of beta-users, who use the app to track symptoms and connect with providers via telehealth. Draper University, KAYA, DFRI, Calm/Storm, as well as angel investors participated in the round. Hashimoto is an autoimmune disease…
Like a lot of great inventions, Embr Labs got started somewhat on accident in 2013, when co-founders Matt Smith, David Cohen-Tanugi and Sam Shames met at MIT’s Material Science department. The three were working together on a project at a laboratory in Boston. Outside it was a sunny and warm day, yet inside the lab everyone was wearing hoodies and jackets freezing…
Peanut, a social network to connect women throughout all stages of motherhood, today released a glossary of modernized terms as part of its Renaming Revolution to change the stigmatized discourse associated with fertility, pregnancy, and motherhood. The glossary can be found on Peanut’s site and will be available as a reference for anyone to use when talking to women about their experiences, with the aim of…
Origin, a women’s health platform providing physical therapy and expert guidance for issues specific to the female body, today announces aggressive growth plans following a seed funding round led by Brand Foundry Ventures and The Blue Venture Fund. The new investment will be used to accelerate Origin’s mission of ensuring women and mothers nationwide in the U.S. have access to specialized, expert…
Pelvalon today announced reimbursement for the company’s Eclipse System under a new national payment established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The decision enables women access to a life-changing therapy for loss of bowel control, as well as the potential to reduce costs to the healthcare system compared to existing, more expensive treatments. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, privately…
Hologic, a global leader in women’s health, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Mobidiag, a privately held, commercial-stage Finnish-French developer of innovative molecular diagnostic tests and instrumentation, for an enterprise value of approximately $795 million. This includes a cash payment of approximately $714 million (€600 million) for Mobidiag’s equity, and net debt of approximately $81 million. “Acquiring…
