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
Medtech startup The Blue Box closes a €3M seed round to transform breast cancer screening.
Mexican Plenna raises $6M Series A to expand its hybrid women’s health model.
French PCOS startup Solence raises €1.6M for AI-driven digital therapeutics.
Numan secures $60M; expands into women’s health.
Childcare marketplace Bumo raises $10M to support working families.
Male reproductive health company Fellow raises $24M Series B.
Progyny partners with OURA to integrate wearable data into women’s health care.
Bayer receives first global approval for Lynkuet to treat menopause vasomotor symptoms.
In the Know
How New Tech Is Tackling Mammography‘s Blind Spot (Femtech Insider)
How Healthcare Innovation Happens – And Why It Matters for Women’s Health (Femtech Insider)
Fertia’s AI-Powered Platform Strategy: From Point Solution to White-Label Women’s Health Infrastructure (Femtech Insider)
The truth about hysterectomies that might surprise you (Slate)
Design for women, by women (CNN Style)
PE invests in women’s health: an untapped market with ‘explosive’ potential (PE Hub)
Apple might know you’re pregnant before you do (PC Mag)
Women Speak Out on Risk to Landmark Nurses’s Health Study (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Women’s Health Needs Are Ever-Changing. It’s Time for Flexible Benefits That Meet Us Where We Are. (Ms Magazine)
Who’s Hiring?
Below are some jobs we’ve curated for the women’s health innovation community this week.
Foreground Capital is looking for an Investment Associate.
Vella Bioscience is looking for a Junior Visual Designer.
Hims & Hers is looking for a Manager, Marketing Analytics.
Cayaba Care is hiring a Birth Doula.
Kindbody is hiring a Coordinator – Enterprise Medical Billing.
Ro is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer, Care Platform Operations.
Twentyeight Health is looking for a Marketing Coordinator.
Organon is hiring a Senior Specialist, Regulatory Affairs.
To view more roles, visit our job board.
