In October 2021 Organon and Flat6Labs set out to address unmet women’s healthcare needs in the MENA region and launched their joint femtech accelerator program. About a year later the first cohort has now graduated and the program concluded with a demo day held at GrEEK Campus in Cairo. At Demo Day the 10 startups who participated in the program pitched their…
FemHealth Founders and StitchCrew are teaming up and launching a new accelerator program focused exclusively on women’s health and wellness. FemHealth Founders (FHF) is an innovation hub that empowers female founders to build and lead profitable, women-centric companies that are offering solutions to women’s health-related issues. The organization was founded by three Northwest Arkansas entrepreneurs: April Roy, Elizabeth Prenger, and Natalie Shew.…
Leading accelerator Techstars is launching a new program dedicated to innovation in healthcare in Los Angeles. The new Techstars Healthcare accelerator is sponsored by Cedars-Sinai, Point32Health, UCI Health, and UnitedHealthcare, and is designed for founders focused on innovative technology solutions that cut across a variety of segments in the healthcare industry. These segments include, but are not limited to patient experience, physician…
Yes.. It is indeed that time of the year again… YC Demo Day is around the corner and as always we made time to look through the hundreds of startups who just graduated from Y Combinator (Batch S22) to share our picks, who we believe can truly make an impact in the world of healthcare innovation. Curious who made our list? Here…
After founding women’s health innovation focused NGO & community NOGAFem in Israel a while ago, co-founders Dr. Ronell Klingman and Dr. Michal Sela are now expanding their impact and launching impact.51, a new venture studio. Goal of the new incubator, that was co-created with Think Creative’s Michal Shalem and Michal Lebenthal Andreson, is to scale a critical mass pipeline of ideation and…
Korian, a European services Group for elderly and fragile people, and Kamet Ventures, a European Venture builder with track-record in the digital health space are partnering to invent and co-build innovative solutions for better chronic diseases management. Chronic diseases are a major public health challenge. Defined as long-term conditions with various levels of severity that may not have a cure, the diagnosis…
“The Future of Femtech”, an event co-organized by Goddess Gaia Ventures, a women’s health focused ventures fund, and Capital Enterprises, a UK-based startup ecosystem builder, brought together the local femtech community in London earlier this week. Among the highlights was a panel discussion, that featured Syrona Health Co-founder Anya Roy, Panakeia Co-founder Pahini Pandya, Consultant Physician in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine…
Elysian Park VC, the private investment arm of the LA Dodgers Ownership Group, the Los Angeles Dodgers, sports legend Billie Jean King and R/GA Ventures are teaming up to launch Trailblazer, a new Venture Studio focused on what they believe to be the biggest growth opportunity in sports: women. Trailblazer will partner with entrepreneurs and companies— from early-stage startups to later-stage businesses…
