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Highlights
Hormonal health startup Hormona raises £1.2M in pre-seed funding to prepare for launch in Europe and the U.S.
Hormone health startup Inne adds $10M in funding to scale production and invest in R&D ahead of further commercialization.
Health & wellness retailer Holland & Barrett acquires UK-based women’s health startup Parla.
Fertility company Apricityacquires period tracking and community support app Woom.
Thinx appoints Meaghan Davis as the company’s new CEO.
Nature journals raise the bar on sex and gender reporting in research.
Femtech Investment Round-up: May 2022
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Join entrepreneurs, policy makers, and digital health thought leaders for the all-virtual 2022 Health For All celebration and tune in to cutting-edge conversations on equity, access, and sustainability in healthcare. Bakul Patel and Germany’s Deputy Health MinisterProf. Dr. Edgar Franke will be featured keynote speakers. G4A’s alumni companies will exhibit their digital health solutions in a virtual exhibition area. The forum is free to attend.
In the Know
Femtech Trendwatch: On Contraception and Precision Medicine, The US Baby Formula Shortage & Femtech Investment Round-up (Femtech Insider)
New Book: Women’s Brain Project releases “Sex and Gender Bias in Technology and Artificial Intelligence: Biomedicine and Healthcare Applications” (Femtech Insider)
Demonstrating Clinical Outcomes as a Care Delivery Company (From Cell to System / Substack)
From Boob Jobs to Breast Wellness: A New Generation of Brands Is Evolving the Industry’s Relationship with Breasts (Beauty Independent)
Harassment: Meta’s future-focued policy leader is missing a key problem in its present-day metaverse (Quartz)
Inside the startups bringing more women to the.(cap) table (Sifted)
How outlawing abortion could worsen America’s maternal mortality crisis (CNN)
AI gone astray: how subtle shifts in data send popular algorithms reeling, undermining patient safely (STAT)
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