Interview

Founder Q&A with Chekesha Kidd: How Kinumi Supports Caregivers with Its Tech-Enabled Concierge Service

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 with Toyosi Babalola: How Abulé Is Transforming Caregiving with Community-Driven, Value-based Care

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…

Femtech Founder Q&A with Onsite Kids’ Carmi Medoff

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,…

Natural Cycles Co-founder Dr. Elina Berglund Scherwitzl: “Women will have less tolerance for products that have not been properly evaluated.”

2022 was a year for the history books – the impact of Roe v. Wade being overturned will be felt for years to come in and outside of the United States. As we head into 2023, we asked Dr. Elina Berglund Scherwitzl, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Natural Cycles to share her thoughts about the decision’s impact on the women’s health industry as…

Marketing Sexual Health Solutions in Times of Ad Bans and Stigmatization: An Interview with wisp’s Head of Brand Jennifer Dwork

About two weeks ago the femtech world was in uproar yet again as the New York Times article “Why did Facebook reject those ads?” brought attention to the difficulties around advertising faced by many companies in the women’s and sexual health space. This most recent discussion was triggered by a new report released by the Center for Intimacy Justice (CIJ), a nonprofit…

Social Networks, Community Building & The Metaverse: An Interview with Diem Co-founder Emma Bates

What does a new social universe for knowledge sharing look like in 2022? Diem, a new social media alternative created for women & non-binary folks, is trying to answer this question. The company came our of beta in October launching its social networking platform to a waitlist of over 20,000 people. Diem’s mission? To reinvent how we meet, network, learn and collaborate…

From Disney Imagineer to Femtech Founder: An Interview with FLO Vitamins’ Brianna Bitton

Brianna Bitton kicked off her career as a Disney Imagineer, launched an LA-based interior design firm and eventually found her way into femtech after struggling with her period for years. Eventually she had enough of having to arrange her work schedule around debilitating cramps and other PMS symptoms. While searching for options to alleviate her ailments, she realized that the market was…

How Student Entrepreneur Sammie Hasen Wants to Help Make Birth Control Easily Accessible for All

“Everytime I would go to dinner with my friend, we would be in the car for about five minutes before her birth control alarm went off. When it went off, it always went one of two ways – she would skip her pill, or we would turn around to grab her pill, ultimately missing dinner”, shares Sammie Hasen a Georgia Tech student…