Founder Q&A is an interview series showcasing founders of disruptive startups in the healthcare and women’s health innovation ecosystem. In today’s Q&A you’ll hear from Chekesha Kidd, Co-Founder and CEO of Kinumi, a holistic health and wellness platform for active aging adults and their family caregivers. Kidd has successfully led businesses, from early-stage startups to market leading companies exceeding $1 billion in revenue.…
Founder Q&A is an interview series showcasing founders of disruptive startups in the healthcare and women’s health innovation ecosystem. In today’s Q&A you’ll hear from Toyosi Babalola is the CEO and Co-Founder of Abulé, a social care network that leverages the ancient wisdom of community-driven, value-based care, and the concept of trade by barter with powerful AI neural network algorithms. Babalola recently joined the second cohort…
Founder Q&A is an interview series showcasing founders of disruptive startups in the femtech and famtech ecosystem. In today’s Q&A, you’ll hear from Carmi Medoff, Founder & CEO of Onsite Kids, a new new venture that develops and operates high quality child care centers for today’s frontline families. She recently received the Founder Fellowship award from New York City Economic Development Corporation. Previously,…
Early motherhood is a beautiful thing, and nursing is a great opportunity for moms to really bond with their little ones after they’ve entered the world. Unfortunately, there also exists the other side of the coin- nursing often comes with myriad unpleasant lactation issues, from painful breast engorgement, clogged ducts, mastitis, and other let-down issues. This becomes especially difficult for parents who…
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…
