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Kindbody Launches Kindbody 360, a Holistic Health Platform for Pre to Postpartum Care

Kindbody today announced the launch of Kindbody360, a dynamic and integrative solution focused on holistic care. Kindbody360 deftly augments Kindbody’s fertility and family-building offering with mental, physical, and emotional support from pre to postpartum, in-clinic, online and via its telehealth platform. Leveraging proprietary technology, the offering expands the reach of the company’s brick-and-mortar locations, mobile pop-ups, and 300+ partner clinics, furthering its…

Ro Acquires Modern Fertility to Accelerate Its Leadership in Women’s Health

Healthtech company Ro today announced the acquisition of femtech company Modern Fertility, a high-growth reproductive health company focused on addressing gaps in women’s healthcare through fertility testing, research, education, and community. Since 2017, Modern Fertility has empowered people with ovaries nationwide to play a more active role in their health and build the lives they want on their own terms.  The acquisition represents…

FemTechnology: An Interview with FemTech Summit Organizer and Medical Student Oriana Kraft

Throughout history women have been considered ‘aberrations’ from the norm, rather than a crucial and vital part of the population to be included in medical trials and long-term studies. This has resulted in missing data sets and a lack of understanding, diagnosis and treatment of many gynecological conditions, as well as unwanted pharmaceutical side effects for non-gynecological diseases, delays in care, underdiagnoses…

Bluestream Health and The Azadi Project Team up to Provide Women Refugees in Greece with Virtual Care Services

Bluestream Health, a telehealth platform designed to power healthcare providers and patients, no matter their location, language, or age, today announced that it has partnered with The Azadi Project to provide virtual care services to refugee women and girls fleeing from countries like Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Syria for safety in Greece. Azadi is working with refugee women living in some of the harshest conditions with little or no access to basic…

Pratip Dastidar Joins Women’s Health Medtech Establishment Labs as New Head of Global Operations

Establishment Labs, a medical technology company focused on women’s health, initially in the breast aesthetics and reconstruction market, announced today that Pratip Dastidar has been appointed Head of Global Operations. Dastidar will join the executive team at Establishment Labs with responsibility for operational transformation and the scaling of global operations; he will also lead the company’s digital transformation initiatives. Dastidar joins Establishment…

Prenatal Genetic Testing Company JunoDx Raises a $25M Series A

JunoDx, a company focused on improving access to vital genetic health information, announced today the closing of an expanded Series A financing round of $25M led by the Perceptive Xontogeny Venture (PXV) Fund. The capital will be used to support clinical validation studies, product development, and commercial launch of JunoDx’s product offerings for noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT). “We are excited to partner…

Women’s Health Company Femasys Files for $40M IPO

Femasys, a biomedical company focused on women’s health, has reportedly filed for a $40.25M IPO and will list on the Nasdaq under the ticker “FEMY”. We are a biomedical company focused on transforming women’s healthcare by developing novel solutions and next-generation advancements providing significant clinical impact to address severely underserved areas. Our mission is to provide women worldwide with superior minimally-invasive, non-surgical product…

Maternity Startup Oula Enters Hospital Partnership with Mount Sinai for Deliveries

Maternal health startup Oula, combining the best of obstetrics and midwifery care, has announced its partnership with Mount Sinai West, one of New York’s well-respected hospitals. Through this partnership, Oula patients — who receive prenatal, birth, and postpartum care via the company’s collaborative medical team, Brooklyn clinic, and remote care platform — will now be able to deliver their babies at Mount Sinai.…