Women in Cloud, a community-led economic development organization, has a massive mission: to take action with global leaders, corporations and policymakers to help women entrepreneurs create $1 billion in economic access and opportunity by 2030. The outcomes of the COVID-19 impact survey, and challenges women entrepreneurs are facing as a result of the pandemic, increase the need and importance of Women in…
In their Q3 2020 Analyst Note Pitchbook is taking a close look at the femtech market and its potential. An excerpt: The industry has generated just over $376 million in VC across 57 deals so far in 2020, putting the year on pace to match levels from 2019. Femtech’s large market opportunity, conducive regulatory environment, and health IT advancements, among other factors,…
Rock Health has recently released their 2020 Midyear Digital Health Market update. Overall result? Unprecedented funding in unprecedented times. In the midst of a global pandemic and a US recession, US digital health companies raised $5.4B in venture funding across the first six months of 2020. The sector is on track to have its largest funding year ever. Large deals are once…
StartUp Health just released their 2020 Midyear funding report and overall it shows a robust, diversified Health Innovation Market. The first quarter of 2020 came out swinging. With $4.9B raised, it was the most-funded quarter on record for health innovation. But then the world changed. On January 11, China reported its first coronavirus death, and two months later the World Health Organization declared that…
Fertility care startup Carrot has recently released a new employer handbook and annual report sharing insights into U.S. fertility care, trends, and workplace impact. Topics include: The evolution of the pursuit to parenthood Many factors have led to a cultural shift that impacts how we think about parenthood. We’ll look at how a handful of these trends have contributed to this change.…
PwC’s Health Research Institute has recently released the results of a survey among more than 2500 Americans. The goal was to understand whether the changes in consumer health behavior observed during the COVID-19 pandemic are here to stay. The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the economy, the way we work and the health system. A comparison by PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI) of…
Rhia Ventures has recently released a new issue brief about COVID-19’s impact on reproductive healthcare. As companies bring to scale expanded leave policies and remote work arrangements to meet the unprecedented demands presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, they can and must also look to the reproductive healthcare needs of their employees. Lack of access to reproductive healthcare is a hidden driver of…
Ranjani Sundar is currently conducting research for a dissertation that will explore the intersection of women’s health and digital health tools in the female reproductive industry. She is a Masters student studying Bioscience Enterprise at the University of Cambridge. Her goal is to understand the habits of women when it comes to their reproductive health. Currently, resources for women’s reproductive health are scattered. It can…