Elvie, the female-led FemTech innovator of the world’s first silent wearable breast pump, will host “Glass Ceiling Day,” a virtual event to inspire conversation and awareness around the critical issues impacting women across the world today. The event, in collaboration with HeyMama, the social platform for working mothers, will take place on February 23 and feature discussion between distinguished women’s advocates Tania Boler,…
FemTech Collective is starting into this new year with lots of new energy and new projects and has recently announced a new event series: The FemTech Innovation Summit. The first event in the series is taking place on March 5, just before International Women’s Day, and celebrates gender equality while equipping participants with practical takeaways to progress their professional skillsets in the…
Applications for HackLBS 2021 a hackathon organized by London Business School are now open. HackLBS is a weekend-long event where people come together to create anything at all. The most common hacks are such software products as mobile apps or websites, however, some also build physical hacks – machines, tools etc. This year HackLBS is organizing a track dedicated to “Women Empowerment”. The…
Will the next unicorn be built by an all male team…again? The Female Founders team thinks it’s time for change! Tech and innovation has been a space dominated by men for too long and now is the time to finally bring more women into our ecosystem and enable them to build category-defining companies. Known for its accelerator program targeted at female founders,…
In 2021 the team behind Women’s Health Innovation Summit is organizing a series of events leading up to its signature event in the fall. The first of these events, the Contraception Innovation Summit will take place virtually on February 23, 2021 and we are excited to be giving away one ticket to a member of the Femtech Insider Community. Innovation in the contraception industry…
Health Tech 2.0 is a global virtual conference bringing together health tech leaders, innovators, founders, clinicians, influencers, and investors from around the world to discuss the future of healthcare technology. Health Tech 2.0 is around the corner and we couldn’t be more excited! Excited about the upcoming event and it’s top-notch speaker line-up, but also excited to be giving away 10 free…
Every year McKinsey is hosting the its Annual Early Stage Investor Conference (ESIC). The 4th edition of ESIC 2020 takes place this week and McKinsey is expecting 300+ investors. As always the event is focused on early stage (seed – series A) ventures. This year, however, for the first time, there’s a track dedicated entirely to femtech and 16 startups from the field of women’s…
Since launching the Women’s Health Tech Challenge in 2018, HITLAB has committed to being at the forefront of impactful change in women’s health, inviting global innovators and entrepreneurs to come together every year to propose their novel solutions to health issues affecting women everywhere. Last week on Women’s Entrepreneurship Day a global audience came together again for HITLAB’s third-annual Women’s Health Tech Challenge. Five femtech founders…
