1 in 3 women or 14 million people in the UK are affected by incontinence, yet when Peony Li initially set out to raise for her startup Jude, a UK-based startup focused on bladder care, she was told by investors that the space wasn’t “sexy enough”. She proved them wrong and today the company is announcing a £2M pre-seed round led by…
MDisrupt, a digital health intelligence company, has raised $6M in funding from Bren Investments, Matthew Holt, Chantell Preston, Grail co-founder Jessica Owens, and AKESOgen co-founders Mark Bouzyk and Robert Boisjoli. The new funding will accelerate the company’s rapid growth by expanding its platform to enable digital health innovators to rapidly generate the real-world performance data needed to successfully commercialize and scale their…
Male fertility startup ExSeed Health has raised a £2.5M seed extension round led by Ascension with participation from Trifork, Hambro Perks and R42 Group. The investment will drive further European expansion. This round brings total seed-stage investment in ExSeed to more than £5M. and comes after the company has maintained average month-on-month sales growth rates of more than 20% in 2021 and quadrupled their sales…
CancerIQ, a precision health platform powering early cancer detection and prevention across broad patient populations has cloces a $14M Series B co-led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHI) and Amgen Ventures. McKesson Ventures, OSF Ventures, the investment arm of OSF HealthCare, a current CancerIQ customer, as well as CancerIQ’s Series A lead investor, HealthX Ventures, also participated in the round.…
Berlin-based Vyld has raised its first round of pre-seed funding from The Case for Her, Purpose Ventures, as well as several business angels to take its seaweed based tampons into mass production by the end of the year. The company was founded by Ines Schiller, a certified marine guide, social entrepreneur, screenwriter/film producer, philosopher and neuroscientist. The company’s mission? To revolutionize the…
Pharma giant Ferring has finalized a two-year investment agreement including an acquisition option with Robyn, a community-driven fertility platform, that provides access to a network of integrative parental wellness tools, resources, and specialists. Robyn was founded in 2019 by Allison Kasirer and took part in the 2021 cohort of the UnitedHealthcare Accelerator Powered by Techstars. Prior to Ferring’s investment the company raised $1.2M…
HerMD, a company that currently operates two insurance-based, women’s health focused health care centers in Ohio and Kentucky in the U.S., has raised $10M in Series A funding from JAZZ Ventures. The new funds will be used to open additional locations, but also to enter the virtual care market and scale nation-wide. HerMD was founded in 2015 and has, according to the…
Equip, a provider of virtual, evidence-based eating disorder treatment in the U.S. has raised $58M in Series B funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $75M. The Chernin Group (TCG), led the round and was joined by Tiger Global and General Catalyst, as well as existing investors F-Prime Capital, Optum Ventures, and .406 Ventures. Katie Couric Media invested alongside American soccer champion…
