Biom Pharmaceuticals, a leading microbiome research company and creator of femtech brand VagiBiom, has just launched Vee, a female-focused mobile health app that supports women’s health at each stage of the female journey. Backed by science, Vee offers reliable resources to help women maintain peak health at each phase of womanhood. From tracking one’s period, to planning a pregnancy, to making menopause a time of…
Equip, a leading provider of virtual, evidence-based eating disorder treatment in the U.S., today announced the expansion of its services into four major markets – Colorado, Florida, Georgia, and Illinois. With this growth, Equip is now able to serve half the country – over 160 million patients and their families – through Family-Based Treatment (FBT) delivered at home for lasting recovery. “We’ve long known how widespread…
Healthcare technology company Ro has announced, that Margo Georgiadis, former CEO of Ancestry.com, is joining its Board of Directors. Margo Georgiadis was the CEO of Ancestry.com, growing the business to over 20M subscribers, over $1B in subscription revenue, and record-setting profit and cash flow. She was the President of the Americas and VP of Global Operations at Google for 9 years, leading…
Amma pregnancy tracker, a mobile app providing pregnant women and their families evidence-based content, pregnancy health tracking, and personalized advice from professional obstetricians and gynecologists, has raised a $2M pre-Series A round to invest in growth and internationalization. New investors in this recent round include Alexey Solovyov A. Partners, the Joint Journey investment office Sergey Dashkov, the Angelsdeck business angel club, as…
Singapore-based Ease Healthcare, a healthtech startup enabling convenient, affordable, and discreet access to women’s health care services, has announced a $1.3M seed round and the launch of its new mobile app. The round was led by Southeast Asia-focused venture capital firm Insignia Ventures Partners. Also participating in the round were several high-profile members from the XA Network, the leading tech executives’ investment…
Investment firm Spex Capital and London’s life sciences cluster organization MedCity have opened their first joint call as part of their exclusive partnership to identify and fund the next generation of digital health and medtech innovators. Applications are invited from early-stage health-tech ventures with solutions to problems faced by healthcare systems globally. Interested companies can complete their applications for seed or series A rounds by October 27th, 2021. The call comes…
Canada-based WELL Health Technologies, a company focused on consolidating and modernizing clinical and digital assets within the healthcare sector, has announced plans to acquire a majority stake in Wisp, a U.S.-based e-pharmacy & telehealth startup focused on women’s health, for $41M. It is expected that at the close of the transaction, WELL will own approximately 53% of the issued and outstanding share…
SimpliFed, a company dedicated to revolutionizing infant nutrition via their virtual lactation and baby feeding support platform, has raised a $500K pre-seed round. The round was led by Third Culture Capital (3CC). The funds, which were raised while SimpliFed’s founder and CEO Andrea Ippolito was pregnant with her second child, will be used to further implement their telehealth platform and share their…
