It’s been around 1.5 years since Keleya first launched ammely, its midwife matching platform in cooperation with the German Midwife Association (Deutscher Hebammenverband e.V.) . Since then around a third of midwives in Germany have signed up. Today the company, that recently announced its $3M Series A, is introducing a new feature on the platform: Telehealth. From now on parents-to-be can not…
Los Angeles-based perinatal nutrition and education startup Needed has announced a $5.8M seed round led by Seae Ventures and Sekhmet Ventures. Other participants in the the round include Crescent Ridge Partners and Peterson Partners. The company plans to use the new round of funding to expand its offering and address sleep, stress, and fertility issues. Needed is a pregnancy nutrition and education…
Everlywell parent company Everly Health has acquired Natalist, a company offering consumers conception and pregnancy essentials that are 100% plastic neutral alongside evidence-based educational resources. Launched in August 2019, Natalist is built on the values of evidence, education, and usability. Natalist’s mission from the get-go was to reduce the shame, misinformation, and outdated product offerings, the founding team around Halle Tecco, experienced…
Naytal, a virtual clinic supporting women during pregnancy and their postnatal journey is launching today with £300K in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Fuel Ventures. On Naytal women get instant access to health experts including midwives, breastfeeding consultants, psychologists and women’s health physios. Leila Thabet, who co-founded Naytal together with Lara Russell-Jones shares: “Women’s healthcare needs and expectations have evolved,…
Babyscripts, the virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, is partering with Nuvo Group, a company commercializing INVU by Nuvo, an FDA-cleared, prescription-initiated, remote pregnancy monitoring platform. This collaboration will offer non-stress tests by INVU, within Babyscripts’ commercial ecosystem, with the singular goal of advancing pregnancy care delivery for providers and their patients, particularly those at high risk for complications. Babyscripts Virtual Maternity…
Amma pregnancy tracker, a mobile app providing pregnant women and their families evidence-based content, pregnancy health tracking, and personalized advice from professional obstetricians and gynecologists, has raised a $2M pre-Series A round to invest in growth and internationalization. New investors in this recent round include Alexey Solovyov A. Partners, the Joint Journey investment office Sergey Dashkov, the Angelsdeck business angel club, as…
Biotech company Progenity has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued U.S. Patent No. 11,112,403 for assessment of preeclampsia using assays for free and dissociated placental growth factor to the company. The patent is directed to methods, compositions, and kits for detecting and measuring free and dissociated placental growth factor (PlGF) levels in biological samples. PlGF is…
Pregnancy After Loss Support (PALS), a non-profit organization and community support resource for pregnancy after loss, today announced the launch of its first mobile app, the Pregnancy After Loss App, which will provide support to women and their partners experiencing the grief of miscarriage during a subsequent pregnancy. Pregnancy after loss is a unique blend of grief and joy. A 2015 study found…
