Just last week we talked about the Vagina Museum’s reopening and celebratory women’s health awareness campaign in London here on this blog. And this week reproductive health startup Hertility is following in the organizations footsteps with “The Mother of All Movements”, a new campaign that celebrate reproductive hormones, and aims to demystify fertility for women everywhere. Please mind the Gender Health Gap…
We last spoke about Expecting last November, when the US/Israeli company announced it’s $1M seed round. Following the financing the startup is now launching a new digital database to address the shortage of surrogates, supporting the fertility industry and parents-to-be find and recruit surrogates. Expecting Co-founder & CEO Nadav Raanan shares: “In recent months, the number of available surrogates around the US…
DTC healthcare company Ro has acquired Dadi, a fertility company specializing in the facilitation of sperm testing, analysis, and storage. The deal follows Ro’s recent $150M raise and another acquisition in the fertility space (Modern Fertility) last summer. As part of the acquisition, today, Ro is launching the Ro Sperm Kit, an updated and rebranded offering powered by Dadi’s proprietary collection, testing,…
Male Contraception Startup Contraline has been awarded “Best Innovation” at Reproductive Health Innovation Summit, which took place in Boston on February 15-16. The company’s ADAM System is the world’s first investigational hydrogel implant designed to provide non-hormonal, long-lasting and non-permanent contraception for men Contraline was selected as the winning company among 9 other finalists developing technologies that promote increased reproductive access, choice,…
Another week, another acquisition and this time it’s in the contraception space: SimpleHealth, a telehealth provider in the reproductive health space, is acquiring Emme, a healthtech company focused, known for its Birth Control Smart Case. The acquisition expands SimpleHealth’s birth control prescription delivery and telehealth services while addressing unmet needs in reproductive healthcare through a patient-centered approach. Emme had previously been active…
Fertility Focus, the company known for its “family of fertility trackers” that includes OvuSense and OvuCore, is rebranding to viO HealthTech. And it’s not just a name change. Based on the insights gained from 210,000+ tracked cycles, the company is expanding its offering to address women’s health more holistically beyond fertility and moving into Digital Therapeutics (DTx). Over the past years the…
Cook Medical has signed a letter of intent with CooperCompanies to sell the entirety of Cook’s Reproductive Health business within the MedSurg division. CooperCompanies, a publicly held healthcare company, is focused on women’s health and fertility solutions, providing innovative products and services for every step in the ART journey. Under the proposed transaction, CooperCompanies will pay $875M comprised of $675M at closing…
Australian medtech startup Fertilis has raised $2M (AUS $2.75M) in seed funding led by Horizons Ventures for its new micro medical devices that automate cell culture and allow for precise control of the environment in which cells are grown. Fertilis’ technology has big implications for the treatment of chronic conditions such as cancer, spinal cord injury and even Cystic Fibrosis. When used…
