Every Thursday we send out a curated newsletter on all things femtech and women’s health innovation. This is an excerpt from the latest edition. If you’d like to subscribe, you can do so at the bottom of this page.
Highlights
Germany-based Ovom Care raises €4.8M in seed funding for its AI-enabled hybrid fertility care model.
Sexual wellness brand Playground expands retail presence following successful $2M raise.
Sibel Health receives $17.5M grant from the Gates Foundation to advance maternal health monitoring.
UK-based femtech company Elvie adds £9.6M in funding.
Women-led obesity and cardiometabolic health startup Ilant Healthextends seed round to $5.5M.
Curio’s MamaLift Plus Earns FDA Nod as First Digital Therapeutic for Postpartum Depression.
Data Equity Coalition advocates for standardized data collection to promote health equity.
Digital health companies launch The Wonder Woman Collective to address critical gaps in women’s healthcare.
BII & Science Journals launch Translational Medicine Prize for Innovations in Women’s Health and Gender Medicine.
In the Know
The European Femtech Ecosystem: Nascent or Struggling? (Femtech Insider)
GenZ Is Panicking About Their Fertility. Should They Be? (Women’s Health)
The gender health gap: Why women’s health needs a rethink (The Drum)
The failed promise of egg freezing (Vox)
Inside the opaque world of IVF, where errors are rarely made public (The Washington Post)
Bay Area leads in “femtech” growth potential (Axios)
Who’s Hiring?
Origin is looking for a Healthcare Receptionist.
Kindbody is hiring a Clinic Director.
Organon is hiring a Senior Specialist, Supply Chain Management.
Flo Health is looking for a Product Designer – Health.
Everly Health is hiring a Lead Laboratory Assistant.
Daye is looking for a Design Engineer.
Progyny is looking for a Director, Sales.
Tia is looking for a Lead Clinical Assistant.
