Everlywell today announced an oversubscribed Series D financing of $175 million. New investors participating in the round include funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, The Chernin Group (TCG), Foresite Capital, Greenspring Associates, Lux Capital, Morningside Ventures, and Portfolia, as well as existing investors Goodwater Capital, Highland Capital Partners, and Next Coast Ventures. This investment brings the total capital raised by the company to…
Since launching the Women’s Health Tech Challenge in 2018, HITLAB has committed to being at the forefront of impactful change in women’s health, inviting global innovators and entrepreneurs to come together every year to propose their novel solutions to health issues affecting women everywhere. Last week on Women’s Entrepreneurship Day a global audience came together again for HITLAB’s third-annual Women’s Health Tech Challenge. Five femtech founders…
Nasdaq has filed a proposal with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to adopt new listing rules related to board diversity and disclosure. If approved by the SEC, the new listing rules would require all companies listed on Nasdaq’s U.S. exchange to publicly disclose consistent, transparent diversity statistics regarding their board of directors. Additionally, the rules would require most Nasdaq-listed companies to have, or explain why they…
EHE Health, a preventive and primary healthcare provider organization, launched Thrive Now, its first-ever, clinically-integrated, mobile health app last week. The app is designed to help women prepare for healthy pregnancies, improve maternal and infant health and minimize the risks and costs of preventable complications before and after delivery. Thrive Now offers a set of highly personalized tools and content, powered by femtech…
Cambridge-based startup Endomag, has raised a £15M Series D led by Draper Esprit, which was supported by existing investors Sussex Place Ventures among others. This investment brings the company’s total funding to over £32 million. Endomag’s technologies use non-invasive magnetic sensing to locate and stage breast cancer and have helped over 130,000 women across the world receive more precise and less invasive…
A new group, the Dame Hilda Lloyd Network, has just launched in the West Midlands. The women’s health research network aims to bring together researchers, clinicians & medical students to work towards improving women & children health through multi-disciplinary research embedded within excellent clinical care. The objectives of the network include: Providing opportunities to develop new research collaborations Embedding Patient and Public…
Babyscripts, a virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, recently welcomed Krista Drobac; Christina Jenkins, MD; and Fran Soistman, Jr. to the Babyscripts Advisory Board. The new group of advisors will offer guidance on Babyscripts’ payer strategy: a unique collaboration for care coordination between Babyscripts, the payer and the provider that seeks to open up new pathways to reimbursement and expand access to…
We’ve talked about it many times on this blog before: The advertising and content moderation policies of some of the world’s most popular social networks clearly put femtech and sextech startups at a disadvantage, contribute to stigmatization, and make customer acquisition even harder for founders active in our space. Just a couple of days ago we talked about again after Aavia founder…
