Maternal health company Ruth Health is on a mission to bring an outdated, historically inadequate system into the 21st century, while empowering the people who are birthing our next generations with empathy, education, and support. Its suite of remote patient services includes pelvic floor training, lactation counseling, C-section recovery resources, intimacy and sexual support, and exercises on demand, which are performed by…
Doveras, a New York-based fertility startup, is launching Pre-Pregnancy Clean Up, its first digital product today. The new program is focused on evidence-based lifestyle interventions to enhance male and female fertility potential, reduce time to pregnancy, and improve assisted reproductive outcomes. The new program may be Doveras’ first digital product on the market, Founder & CEO Nara Lee, however, is no stranger…
So today – as the title of this blog post suggests – we’re talking about OMGYES, an educational platform focused on women’s pleasure. And yes. I know… I’m a bit late to the party, but better late than never! In this post I’d like to share some of my personal experiences using the platform, but will also try to answer some of…
LEIA Health, a Swedish startup focused on supporting new parents during the Forth Trimester has raised €1.4M in pre-seed funding. The round was led by People Ventures with participation from Norsken, Unconventional Ventures, The Case for Her, and Octaquest. LEIA raised a €600K angel round about a year ago. Out of the 140 million women giving birth each year, 90% will experience…
About a year ago Celmatix, a New York-based pre-clinical stage biotech company focused on ovarian biology, announced, that a novel PCOS target identified as part of its five-year, multi-target alliance with Evotec, progressed into hit-identification. Today Celmatix announced that another milestone has been achieved in this alliance, as Evotec and Bayer AG are advancing a second drug program, centered around a novel Celmatix-identified drug target,…
On July 25, 1978 Lesley Brown gave birth to Louise Joy Brown, a little girl who would soon be known all around the world as “the test-tube baby” and the first human ever born using in-vitro fertilization. Since Louise’s birth more than 10 million other “IVF babies” have followed and declining fertility rates suggest that this number will be growing rapidly over…
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More and more people around the world struggle with infertility. In Germany, where reproductive health startup Fertilly is headquartered, around 1 in 7 couples are affected. Infertility is a big struggle for those trying to conceive; yet stigmatization is what makes the experience even more difficult to handle. The lack of public discourse leads to a lack of education about fertility, but…
