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…
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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…
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Unimpressed by the Brexit turmoil, Jelena Jansson just recently moved her company to London. And she hasn’t looked back. After starting Healstack in Sweden, the entrepreneur decided, that the startup culture in one of Europe’s premiere startup hubs was a better fit for her and her company. We spoke to her about her decision, Healstack’s mission to advocate for body positivity and…
It’s only been a few weeks since the newest chapter of FemTech Collective launched in Sydney and many of us suddenly realized how little we actually know about the tech and femtech scene in Australia! Well. Today we’re determined to change that! Megan Capriccio is FemTech Collective’s Sydney Ambassador and besides supporting the local ecosystem, she is also determined to connect founders…
