Every Thursday we send out a curated newsletter on “all things femtech”. This is the latest edition. If you’re interested in subscribing, you can do so at the bottom of this page. “Rachel Jiang, who runs Amazon Alexa’s health and wellness team, says the company worked on the skill after noticing that customers were using the device to set up medication reminders.”…
CB Insights have just released their latest healthcare report. In it they take a data-driven look at global healthcare technology investment trends, top deals, active investors, and corporate activity in Q3 2019. Overview 2019 continues to be on pace to set a deal record. Globally, healthcare companies have raised over 3,400 rounds this year and are on target to exceed 4,500 annually…
ELANZA Wellness founders Brittany Hawkins and Catherine Hendy met in South Africa after freezing their eggs. It had been quite a journey and their own experience with fertility treatments inspired them to help other women better understand their fertility and encourage them to explore ways to improve it. ELANZA Wellness originally started as a “fertility travel agency”, but participation in YC’s Startup…
The team at I See Africa has recently released a new report covering femtech in Africa. The report covers menstrual equity, maternal health and sexual wellness and introduced various organizations actively pushing for innovation in women’s health on the continent. Organisations in the FemTech sector are providing a different approach to tackling period poverty, maternal mortality and sex education in Africa The…
Every Thursday we send out a curated newsletter on “all things femtech”. This is the latest edition. If you’re interested in subscribing, you can do so at the bottom of this page. (c) Peanut Highlights Peanut, the Social Network for Motherhood, Raises $5M and Expands its Offer to Reach Women Trying to Conceive; Apple Launches Research App in Push to Gather User’s Health Data; Planned Parenthood…
Modern Fertility, HER and gender researcher Mere Abrams have teamed up and recently released their new report “Modern State of LGBTQ+ Fertility”, in which they survey people who identify as LGBTQ+ and ask them how they think and feel about fertility. Fertility and family planning are complicated for just about everyone, but they can be disproportionately challenging for the LGBTQ+ community. Misinformation,…
PitchBook and All Raise have teamed up and just released their new report “All In: Women in the VC Ecosystem”. The report highlights global and US-focused trends surrounding female-founded companies and female-led VC funds throughout the last decade. Progress in garnering investment for female-founded startups has been made in recent years, with 2018 notching $46.3 billion in total capital across nearly 3,500…
🙌 Every Thursday we send out a curated newsletter on “all things femtech”. This is the latest edition. If you’re interested in subscribing, you can do so at the bottom of this page. Scanwell’s UTI Test Kit (c) Scanwell Highlights Scanwell Health Launches Smartphone Tests for UTIs; The New York Times Creates ‘Your Fertility Now‘, a Special Section about Fertility; Germany Has Slashed its…
