Woebot Health has enrolled the first patient in a pivotal clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of WB001, an investigational digital therapeutic for postpartum depression (PPD) that was granted Breakthrough Device Designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2021. The multi-center, double-blind, randomized controlled study is actively recruiting women ages 22 to 45 who have given birth in the last three…
Babylist, the leading vertical marketplace and commerce destination for all things baby, has acquired Expectful, a health and wellness app and media site. Babylist’s established media business provides product recommendations and expert-guided content to over 7.5 million unique visitors each month. This deal will enable Expectful to expand into the leading media site for anyone on the pregnancy journey, providing a one-stop destination…
LEIA Health, a Swedish startup focused on supporting new parents during the Forth Trimester has raised €1.4M in pre-seed funding. The round was led by People Ventures with participation from Norsken, Unconventional Ventures, The Case for Her, and Octaquest. LEIA raised a €600K angel round about a year ago. Out of the 140 million women giving birth each year, 90% will experience…
Willow, the Femtech leader disrupting the pumping industry with best-in-class technology, today released its official Apple Watch companion app for Willow 3.0 pumps. Willow changed the way women pump, when the company introduced its signature spillproof, in-bra wearable breast pump. The recent launch of Willow 3.0 pumps has now brought yet another innovation: A Smartwatch companion app, that helps moms to easily control, view,…
Paris-based Sonio, a startup focused on pre-natal care has raised €10M from EIC to support the company’s expansion in the US, Europe and India. The company raised €5M from Elaia, OneRagtime and Bpi France earlier this year. Sonio was founded in 2020 by a team composed of experts from the fields of fetal medicine, artificial intelligence, software development and imaging , and builds on…
Nuvo, the company behind of INVU, an FDA-approved remote pregnancy monitoring platform, is partnering with Ouma Health, a maternity telehealth services company, to deliver an innovative joint solution that provides clinical excellence in maternity telehealth and FDA-cleared remote fetal surveillance technology. The joint solution is designed to address some of the biggest challenges in pregnancy care today, by enabling equitable access to care, improving…
Genetic testing company JunoDx has announced the launch of Juno Hazel, a new non-invasive prenatal screening (NIPS) solution enabled from finger-prick amounts of blood. The Juno Hazel test breaks through one of the most significant barriers to access for genetic testing by leveraging JunoDx’s proprietary Sample Collection Kit. This process improves early access to high-quality genetic testing without the high costs, long…
WHOOP has uncovered a new pregnancy digital biomarker for noninvasive prescreening for premature birth. In the United States, preterm birth is the second leading cause of infant mortality and 35.8% of all infant deaths are preterm-related. In a new study in peer review led by WHOOP Senior Vice President of Data Science & Research, Emily Capodilupo, WHOOP analyzed the physiological data of 241 pregnancies and found that…
