Sexual Wellness

Twentyeight Health Expands Telehealth Services to Include Herpes Treatment

Twentyeight Health, a telehealth company providing affordable access and convenience for reproductive and sexual health, today announced that it will begin offering treatment for herpes.  “Since launching in 2018, women across the U.S. have relied on Twentyeight Health for birth control prescriptions and delivery. In the coming years, Twentyeight Health will be a bigger part of women’s sexual and reproductive care journies,…

German DTx Company HelloBetter Expands to the U.S. Launching HelloGina, an Adapted Version of Its Vaginismus Plus Program

A few months ago we wrote about HelloBetter‘s 12-week vaginismus program. At the time the company had achieved a milestone in Germany as the local government government added the program to its DiGA directory after the app successfully completed the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices’ assessment procedure. The DiGa database is essentially a collection of regulated digital health products reimbursed via the government’s fast-track…

Sexual Wellness Brand Rosebud Woman Is Now Sold At Bloomingdale’s

Bloomingdale’s made the news about a year ago when the department store launched a sexual wellness online shop. And that shop now also sells Rosebud Woman, an inclusive brand known for its intimate moisturizers and other body care, marking the first topical peri- and menopause line within the shop. “We’re delighted that our V-care and performance body care products are available at Bloomingdale’s,…

Sexual Wellness Startup Pique Launches with $4M in Seed Funding and an Offering Targeting Post-menopausal Women

Los Angeles-based Pique has raised $4M in seed funding led by Maveron to further build out and continue scaling accessible, effective, sexual health care solutions for women. The company launches its first offering today targeting post-menopausal women with a holistic solution that combines medical expertise with mental, physical, hormonal, and social factors to offer patients holistic, personalized care.  In the United States, 43% of…

Sexual Wellness Startup Lorals Receives FDA Clearance for STI Protection

It’s been a while since we spoke to Lorals Founder Melanie Cristol about the beginnings of Lorals and her journey to reinvent the dental dam. Back then in January 2021 she shared: “I originally envisioned Lorals as a dental dam replacement, after needing one during a romantic vacation—and feeling so stigmatized that it was the go-to product for us. It’s hard to find dental dams…

Sexual Wellness App Emjoy Gets Suspended from Google Play

Emjoy, a female-founded femtech startup had its audio-based sexual wellness app suspended by Google today due to a “policy violation of sexual content”, which means thousands of paying users on Google Play are currently not able to access the app. Emjoy Founder and CEO Andrea Oliver Garcia turned to social media to create awareness for the stigmatization and censorship many women’s health…

UK-based Intimate Care Brand WooWoo Raises £750K in Seed Funding to Expand to the U.S.

UK-based intimate care brand WooWoo has raised £750K to expand to the U.S. after successfully expanding to France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Australia in 2021. Besides further international expansion the new funds will be used for R&D. WooWoo was founded in 2016 by Lucy Anderson and launched in 2018 with support from Superdrug. Today the brand is stocked by a number of leading retailers but the brand’s main business…

Female and BIPOC Founded CBD Brand Lure Life Raises $750K in Seed Funding

Lure Life, a luxury CBD brand has raised $750K in a seed funding supported by a diverse group of investors in the beauty, finance and the consumer packaged goods sectors. The funding will allow the brand to accelerate market expansion, company growth, marketing and product development of the meticulously designed line. Sitting at the nexus of wellness and beauty, Lure Life touts…