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…
Mirvie is shaping the future of pregnancy health by providing women, expecting parents and their doctors with an early detection window to intervene before unexpected pregnancy complications become a crisis. One in five pregnancies is impacted by complications that lead to lifelong health consequences for expecting parents and babies. The proprietary company’s RNA platform uses a simple blood test to reveal vital…
March of Dimes, the leading organization fighting for the health of all moms and babies, is has opened the March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center (PRC) at UC San Francisco (UCSF). This new PRC, which will focus on prematurity data sharing, computational drug discovery and electronic medical record research, is part of the organization’s shift to speed the pace of discovery to…
Hepatitis C is the most common bloodborne infection in the United States and is a leading cause of liver-related morbidity and mortality. An estimated 1,700 infants were born with HCV infection (acquired in utero) each year between 2011 and 2014. Yet a recent Quest Diagnostics Health Trends study published in Obstetrics and Gynecology in June 2022 found that less than 41% of pregnant people were…
