Runway Growth Capital, a provider of growth loans to both venture and non-venture backed companies seeking an alternative to raising equity, announced today the closing of a senior secured term loan of $50 million to Gynesonics, a healthcare company focused on advancing women’s health by developing minimally invasive, incision-free, uterus-preserving, transcervical technologies for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Gynesonics has developed and has received FDA clearance for…
Advantia Health today announced that veteran healthcare executive Vincent Bradley has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer. Advantia Health’s Co-Founder, Sean Glass, will continue in his role on the company’s board of directors. “As I decided that the time was right to recruit my successor into Advantia, I was looking to find an experienced healthcare CEO aligned with our mission of transforming…
Healthcare inequities in the United States based on race, ethnicity and many other factors are making minorities more prone to not only receive inadequate care, but ultimately it could lead to death. Dr. Maria Hernandez, President and COO of Impact4Health, explains how inadequate training and poor engagement with Black and Brown communities can prove fatal for hospitals—and how this trend could be…
In our “Starter Story” series we invite femtech founders to share their stories of how it all began. How did they come up with the idea? Where did they meet their cofounders and what was the hardest part of going from 0 to 1? In today’s Starter Story we get to share DigiD8’s founding story as told by co-founder Barghavi Govindarajan. DigiD8‘s mission…
Building on its 173-year history of advancing medicine, science and public health, The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) has announced its convening of NYC and national experts to advance research and policy change for maternal and child health equity. NYAM recently launched a 13-member Women’s Health Research & Well-being Workgroup, and on January 12, 2021 will host a virtual Maternal and Child…
KiwiTech, a growing ecosystem committed to helping startups build viable products, drive traction and raise capital, announced a strategic partnership with Hanai, a healthcare platform dedicated to improving the health and lives of women. Over the last decade, KiwiTech has led innovation across multiple verticals scaling businesses in the tech space. Hanai provides a fully transparent platform to deliver, improve and measure…
After selling 20,000 preorders in the first hour of its announcement on December 16 last year, the leading wellness tech company Bellabeat has now already sold over 50,000 preorders of its new smart-wearable product, the Bellabeat Ivy. Ivy is a smart jewelry product for women and the successor of the Bellabeat Leaf, which was sold more than 2.2 million times to date. Just like its predecessor,…
Sera Prognostics, a company focused on improving maternal and neonatal health through innovative precision biomarker approaches, together with leading health benefits company Anthem and its HealthCore subsidiary, an evidence generation company, have launched and started to enroll patients in a study to determine whether a test, along with clinical interventions, can lead to improved health for newborns and mothers. The primary objective…
