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Hello & Welcome to Edition #55 of the
Weekly Femtech Insider Newsletter!
“The first problem we wanted solve was pumping and the wonderful wearable mobile pump. That was always product number one. There’s more innovation we can do around pumping. Moms would love us to support them with more hardware and more software,” Willow CEO Laura Chambers (Source: Techcrunch)


Highlights


Breast pump startup Willow raises $55M with plans for expand its product line; Portfolia announces "Femtech II", its second femtech focused fund during Women's Health Innovation Summit; Modern Fertility now sells its pregnancy & ovulation tests at 1600 Walmart locations & on Walmart.com; WebMD and Twitter announce first health content partnership; Apple and Singapore announce partnership and plans to reward health monitoring smartwatch users; NIH awards contracts to develop innovative digital health solutions for COVID-19; Femtech startup myLotus rebrands as Mylo, Crunchbase introduces new gender tags

 

Spotlight


Portfolia used this year's Women's Health Innovation Summit to announce Femtech II, their second femtech focused fund. But who are the fund's current women's health portfolio companies? We had a look!

Maven is a telehealth network delivering on-demand access to virtual care and services, built specifically for women and families.

Gennev is a solution that provides a personal menopause profile, resources, and access to physicians.‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏ 

FutureFamily helps families more easily afford fertility services like IVF and egg freezing on a subscription basis instead of providing cash upfront.

Joylux is an innovative OTC medical device that restores, heals and rejuvenates a woman’s pelvic floor.‏‏ ‏‏
Madorra

PrimeGenomics is creating innovative new ways to transform the breast cancer screening market by using saliva testing.
 

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In the Know
 

Femtech Events Overview: October 2020 (Femtech Insider)

Featured Femtech Funder: Wendy Anderson, Co-Founder 'The Case of Her' (Femtech Insider)

'Ask Me Anything' with Gallium Ventures Heather Delaney: Let's Talk PR! (Femtech Insider)

"A Weird Liberation": Why Women Are Exposing the Wild Truth about Midlife & Menopause (Guardian)

Femtech Players Call Out Facebook for Rejecting Women's Health Ads (MobiHealthNews)

Coronavirus Forces Rethinking of Safetly New for Working Women (Axios)

Disparities in Black Reproductive Well-Being (Power to Decide)

Don't Let the Pandemic Set Back Gender Disparities (Harvard Business Review)

The Motherhood Recession (Entrepreneur)

Jane Couch: The Inspiring Story of Britain's First Female World Champion Boxer (BBC)

The State of Artificial Intelligence-Based FDA-Approved Medical Devices and Algorithms: An Online Database (Nature)
 


Who's Hiring? 


Aavia is hiring a Head of Product.

Minerva is looking for a Director Sales Operations.

Prelude is hiring a Medical Assistant.

Willow is looking for a Brand Marketing Associate.

Ovia Health is hiring a Chief Operating Office.

>> View More Femtech Jobs


 

Resources 


The Ultimate Femtech Company Database

Femtech Funds, Investors and Business Angels

Femtech & Digital Health Accelerator Programs

Femtech Events Calendar

Femtech Communities

Women's Health NGOs

Research, Reports & Whitepapers

Femtech Insider Services: Work with us!

 
 

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Kathrin Folkendt
Founder, Femtech Insider

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