Breastfeeding and parenting support app LatchAid has relaunched as Anya. LatchAid started with a focus on breastfeeding. The rebrand now allows the company to expand its scope beyond breastfeeding to the first 1,001 days of parenthood, helping families to overcome a much broader range of challenges in line with the UK Government’s A Better Start in Life initiative. The LatchAid name lives…
Juno Medical has raised $12M in Series A funding co-led by Julian Eison, Managing Partner at NEXT VENTURES, and Serena Williams, Managing Partner at Serena Ventures. Other participants in the round include Vast Ventures, which led Juno’s seed round, Empire State Development’s New York Ventures, TXV Partners, Genius Guild, Gaingels, and previous investors Atento Capital and Humbition. Juno’s tech-enabled healthcare model is…
Famtech startup GrandNanny has raised £400K in pre-seed funding for its childcare matching platform. Participants in the round include 3 Sisters Ventures (3SV) Collective, childcare entrepreneur Ben Black, SFC capital as well as TwinklHive, an investment company and business accelerator. GrandNanny matches interested care givers over 50 with parents searching for part-time childcare. The company’s service is currently available in London and…
Employer Health Innovation Roundtable (EHIR), a private community focused on accelerating healthcare innovation by connecting Fortune 500 benefit leaders with digital health solutions, and Magnify Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on technology in the care economy that announced the closing of its first $52M fund a month ago, are launching a curated program designed to accelerate emerging solutions addressing the needs of…
Boston-based ianacare, which provides comprehensive, tech-enabled caregiver support through employers and health plans, has raised a $12.1M Series A investment led by Greycroft with participation from 8VC, SemperVirensVC, Able Partners, and Brown Alumni Group, along with follow-on investments from existing investors Slow, Founder Collective, Indicator Ventures, Entree Capital, Cue Ball, Service Provider Capital, and AARP. As part of the raise, Greycroft partner…
Women’s health is a new focal point for investors. More research and more investment dollars are going into solving healthcare challenges that are specific to women such as breast cancer and ovarian cancer, fertility, pregnancy, birthing, and menopause. Some healthcare issues disproportionately affect women like infant care, but others such as heart disease have not had solutions developed which meaningfully consider gender…
Koble, a community-driven famtech startup with the goal to support moms and dads on their parenting journey, has raises $1M led by Garage capital. Other participants in the round include Panache Ventures as well as a number of angel investors. Koble was founded in January 2021 by Swati Matta with the goal to connect parents and health experts. In a nutshell the…
