Ecosystem

BNY Mellon Launches New Women’s Opportunities ETF That Invests in Companies Advancing Gender Equality at Home and at Work

BNY Mellon Investment Management, an asset management firm with $1.9 trillion in assets under management is launching the BNY Mellon Women’s Opportunities ETF (ticker: BKWO) today. Listed on Nasdaq, the ETF is sub-advised by Newton Investment Management North America, a BNY Mellon investment firm and aa equity and multi-asset manager. “This addition to our growing suite of ETFs provides investors with access to Newton’s…

Health Innovation Network Launches “Accelerating FemTech”, a New Initiative to Boost Innovation in Women’s Health in the UK

Health Innovation Network is the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) for south London – 1 of 15 AHSNs across England. As the only bodies that connect NHS and academic organisations, local authorities, the third sector and industry, HIH is uniquely placed to increase the spread and adoption of innovation across large populations, at pace and scale. Now the network, that is also…

Global Creative Agency Rapp Is Launching a Pro-Bono Marketing Accelerator Focused on Elevating Femtech Startups

Today’s healthcare system leaves far too many people behind. To combat these inequities, Rapp, a global creative agency, is launching Series R, a health equity marketing accelerator program focused on elevating femtech start-ups. The goal of Series R is to support one game-changing start-up bringing new solutions to market in a space where women, people of color, and other marginalized communities have traditionally…

Ferring and BioInnovation Institute Enter New Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate Innovation in Women’s Health

Ferring Pharmaceuticals and BioInnovation Institute (BII) have announced a new strategic collaboration to accelerate innovation in women’s health. New activities will include supporting BII to source, and potentially fund and incubate early-stage start-ups and projects within the field of reproductive medicine. The strategic collaboration builds on Ferring’s engagement with BII’s Women’s Health Initiative through Ferring’s membership on the BII Women’s Health Innovation…

5 Tactics That Drive Customer Retention and Loyalty for Femtech and Wellness Brands

Two weeks ago Future Digital Founder Destinee Berman invited our community to join her for a tactical online marketing workshop all about retention for femtech and wellness brands. Destinee is a growth marketer with 20 years of industry experience working with brands such as Twitter, Sephora, and Microsoft. Her performance marketing agency Future Digital specializes in connecting customer acquisition (paid social/search) with…

Ask the Expert: Ahrefs’ Patrick Stox Answers YOUR Questions about Healthcare SEO

Remember our “Ask the Expert” Office Hours with Ahrefs’ Patrick Stox? Did you submit a question? Yes? Great! Because today is the day and we’re excited to share her answers to all YOUR most pressing questions about healthcare SEO. Meet Patrick Stox and Ahrefs! Patrick Stox is Product Advisor, Technical SEO, and Brand Ambassador at Ahrefs. Before that he was a Technical SEO at IBM for many years,…

Metaverse: Essity Creates Virtual World Focused on Menstrual Education in Roblox

Hygiene and health company Essity, together with its leading feminine care brand Saba, are launching a virtual world on the online video game platform Roblox in order to normalize menstruation. The project, V-Land, encourages boys, girls and parents to have a space in the metaverse where stigmas and taboos around menstruation are removed through edutainment. V-Land is a game on Roblox where boys,…

Meet 13 Startups from Y Combinator’s W23 Batch We’re Watching Closely Right Now

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 W23) to share our picks, who we believe can truly make an impact in the world of healthcare innovation. Sadly – and this is a…