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| 01.05.2024 | Healthline Announces 2024 Women's Wellness Awards | Inaugural editor's choice awards celebrate the leading products for women's health and wellness
NEW YORK, May 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthline, the leading source of actionable health education, today announced the 2024 Healthline Awards:... |
| 08.08.2022 | Why now? Infertility is a crisis. Women’s healthcare should be a basic right. | By Emma Lawler, CV EIR |
| 09.03.2022 | Zaya Care partners with payers to bring the European model of maternal care to the States | Despite the fact that we spend more on healthcare per capita, the U.S. leads the wealthy world in maternal mortality. And health inequity plays a big part.
Zaya Care, founded by Leoni Runge, operates here in the States but is modeled after ... |
| 04.01.2022 | You can still develop preeclampsia after giving birth — here’s the signs to help you get treatment right away | You can lower your risk of postpartum preeclampsia with consistent check-ups. Halfpoint Images/Getty Images
Preeclampsia can also develop after childbirth and cause seizures and other health complications.
Common symptoms include severe hea... |
| 31.12.2021 | Femtech Startups, Like Modern Fertility, Are Booming | It looks like the time has come for femtech startups. Such companies raised $1.3 billion in just the first nine months of 2021, considerably more than the $774 million in all of 2020, according to Rock Health. These startups use digital and... |
| 19.05.2021 | Ro Acquires Modern Fertility to Integrate With Primary Care Platform | What You Should Know:
– Ro, today announced the acquisition of Modern Fertility, one of the fastest growing companies in women’s health.
– This acquisition, one of the largest deals in women’s health tech yet, will accelerate Ro’s position ... |
| 21.04.2021 | Stix expands from at-home pregnancy and ovulation tests to UTI products with $3.5M seed | Companies like Ro and Hims have capitalized on the need for more seamless and discreet access to health and wellness products that are part of everyday life. For men.
Stix is looking to do the same for women, and has today announced the rai... |
| 19.04.2021 | Despite right-wing panic about the plummeting birthrate, Republicans are lining up against Biden’s pro-family ‘human infrastructure’ push | President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney greet babies on the campaign trail in 2012. Jewel Samad/Emmanuel Dunand/Getty Images
Many on the right, particularly social and religious conservatives, are concerned ... |
| 03.03.2021 | US birth rates just plummeted to their lowest since the baby boom era | The US birth rate decreased 4.4% in one year, per data CBS cited from December 2020.
Experts say the dwindling births indicate we’re struggling financially, physically, and mentally.
Pregnant people still fear hospitals and families are too... |
| 29.09.2020 | FemBeat: Perla Health Wants To Demystify Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), Which Affects 1 In 10 Women | The Perla Health homepage Perla Health |
| 10.09.2020 | Mental Healthcare 3.0 Part 2 | Part 2: Four Ideas for 3.0
In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about the transition from 2.0 to 3.0 in mental healthcare technology and why we are paying attention to it. What might it look like to create a scalable, defensible, networked me... |
| 05.05.2020 | Extra Crunch Live: Join Kirsten Green for a Q&A next Tuesday at 11 a.m PST/2 p.m. EST/6 p.m. GMT | Last month, the Extra Crunch Live team hosted conversations with folks from all over the venture community that ranged from the pre-seed world with Charles Hudson to shark territory with Mark Cuban. We’re starting off May with a packed agen... |
| 01.05.2020 | New Study: Millennial Women Are Delaying Having Children Due To Their Careers | Copyright by Tom Werner |
| 06.03.2020 | Что такое FemTech: полный обзор экосистемы стартапов для женщин | Все говорят про FinTech, EduTech, AgroTech, но на vc.ru не нашлось ни одного упоминания об одном из самых растущих сегментов среди технологических компаний в категории Digital Health — FemTech, или Female Technologies.
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| 18.12.2019 | #ANGELS founding partner raises $25M for debut fund Moxxie Ventures | Katie Jacobs Stanton, a former Twitter executive and co-founder of the #ANGELS investment collective, has raised $25 million for her debut venture capital fund Moxxie Ventures.
As the sole general partner, she plans to invest between $250,0... |
| 13.06.2019 | Modern Fertility's mail-order test, app platform collects $15M | |
| 11.06.2019 | Modern Fertility Secures $15M Series A |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Modern Fertility, a women's health company making fertility hormone testing more accessible, today announces its $15 million Series A round of funding.
>> Click here for more funding data on Modern Fertility
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| 11.06.2019 | Modern Fertility raises $15 million to sell its hormone tests — and gather more fertility data from its users | Modern Fertility is a San Francisco-based company that sells fertility tests directly to consumers, but increasingly, those customers will be educating the company, too. Indeed, the two-year-old startup now plans to develop a database of an... |
| 11.06.2019 | Modern Fertility Raises $15M in Series A Funding | Modern Fertility, a San Francisco, CA-based women’s health company making fertility hormone testing accessible, raised $15m in series A funding.
The round, wnich has raised a total of $22m to date, was led by Forerunner Ventures with the fi... |
| 16.04.2019 | With 35 different in-home health diagnostic tests now on offer, EverlyWell raises $50 million to expand | Venture capitalists are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into healthcare startups pitching lower-cost alternatives to traditional services, and one of their primary targets is diagnostics.
As investors look to back services that can ... |
| 16.04.2019 | Direct-to-consumer lab testing startup EverlyWell raises $50 million | CEO and founder Julia Cheek started EverlyWell after her own experiences trying to diagnose her health issues highlighted problems of cost and convenience in the traditional lab testing process, especially with the proliferation of high-ded... |
| 07.03.2019 | Sextech: подборка из 13 стартапов в области отношения полов и секса | Мы не стесняемся говорить про проекты из области fintech, biotech, foodtech и familytech. При этом технологии в сфере отношений между партнёрами, будь это секс или простой разговор, мы обходим стороной.
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| 16.02.2019 | Audio Of The Week: Reimagining The Well Woman | One of the areas we have been investing a lot in at USV is women’s healthcare (Clue, Modern Fertility, Nurx).
Another interesting company in women’s healthcare, that USV is not an investor in (at least not yet), is Tia, which calls itself “... |
| 23.10.2018 | Business Model Innovation in Healthcare | Naomi posted some thoughts on changing business models in health care on the USV blog yesterday.
The one that I am personally most excited about is what Naomi calls “change of venue” and within that I like the “virtual primary care” model.
... |
| 22.10.2018 | Business Model Innovation in Healthcare | Recent conversations around healthcare have surfaced words like “crisis” and “collapse”. Besides being confused by the existing system, 20% of Americans can no longer afford basic healthcare (including their insurance premiums), leading to ... |
| 29.09.2018 | Audio Of The Week: The Changing Nature Of Women's Healthcare | One of the themes we are deeply bought into at USV in our approach to healthcare investing is the opportunity in women’s health care, particularly providing care to young and healthy women. Our portfolio companies Nurx, Clue, and Modern Fer... |
| 11.09.2018 | Unbundling Healthcare | USV has been investing in health-related technologies for about five years. Our approach can be characterized by the notion that digital processes, made more accessible by the internet and mobile access, could over time transform the cost a... |
| 02.07.2018 | These 50 founders and VCs suggest 2018 may be a tipping point for women in tech: Part 2 | On Friday, we featured 25 founders and VCs who are having a notable 2018 — and who happen to be women. Herewith, 25 more who deserve some kudos for getting it done in the first half of this year. This list, meant to highlight the growing nu... |
| 31.05.2018 | Modern Fertility Raises $6M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Modern Fertility, a woman's health company, has raised $6 million in funding.
>> Click here for more funding data on Modern Fertility
>> To export Modern Fertility funding data to PDF and Excel, click here... |
| 31.05.2018 | This newly funded startup wants to help women gauge their reproductive health a lot sooner in life | It’s often the case that women don’t think much about their reproductive health until they have to. Sometimes it begins with an aside from a well-meaning gynecologist — or one’s impatient parents. Sometimes, it’s because a couple is ready t... |
| 31.05.2018 | USV Leads $6M Funding for Modern Fertility | SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Modern Fertility, the women’s health company that makes fertility information more accessible, today announced the launch of its simple-to-use hormone test that can be taken through a finger-prick at home or ... |
| 31.05.2018 | Term Sheet — Thursday, May 31 | CRUISIN’
Good morning, Term Sheet readers.
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| 31.05.2018 | Modern Fertility Raises $6 Million For At-Home Reproductive Tests | - |
| 31.05.2018 | Modern Fertility Raises $6M in Seed Funding | Modern Fertility, a San Francisco, CA-based women’s health company, raised $6m in seed funding.
The round, which brings total funding to $7m, was led by Maveron and Union Square Ventures, with participation from Ashton Kutcher and Guy Osear... |
| 30.05.2018 | Our Investment in Modern Fertility | Modern Fertility is building a trusted consumer brand in fertility, starting with their launch today of at-home testing for women. In the comfort of their own homes, and for a fraction of what it would cost at a clinic, women can have their... |
| 28.03.2018 | Meet Union Square Ventures’ First Female General Partner | This article originally ran in Term Sheet, Fortune’s newsletter about deals and dealmakers. Sign up here.
Before Rebecca Kaden was a venture capitalist, she was a journalist. She worked for the Economist in London and later as a special pro... |
| 04.12.2017 | Investors see big money in infertility. And they’re transforming the industry | Investors searching for a new way to make big money in medicine have hit upon an age-old problem: infertility.
The money isn’t just in treating older women who have spent years trying to conceive. It’s in persuading younger women, still in ... |
| 14.08.2017 | Kat Mañalac Guest Edits The Monday Morning Macro | I’m Kat Mañalac, one of the partners at Y Combinator. I’m guest editing the YC newsletter this week. If you like the format, tweet me @katmanalac. If you don’t, email craig@ycombinator.com. 🙂 YC Startup Launches
It’s one week to YC S17 Dem... |
| 10.08.2017 | Modern Fertility Raises $1M in Funding | Modern Fertility, a San Francisco-based healthcare startup for women, raised $1m in funding.
The round was led by First Round Capital, with participation from Box Group, Y Combinator, and angel investors.
The company intends to use the fund... |
| 10.08.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, Aug. 10 | ET CETERA
Good morning! No column today, but have these links:
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| 09.08.2017 | Modern Fertility is offering a comprehensive fertility test for women who hope to be moms someday | There are a number of ways to find out more about your fertility these days — including from several at-home fertility test startups that have started to pop up in the last few years. Modern Fertility hopes to soon operate in much the same ... |
| 09.08.2017 | Modern Fertility raises $1 million to educate women about their hormones | Modern Fertility is trying to spark a conversation about fertility. The young San Francisco-based startup wants to educate women about their bodies and hormonal levels, and today announced funding of $1 million, led by First Round Capital, ... |
| 09.08.2017 | Modern Fertility raises $1 million to educate women about their hormones | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Modern Fertility is trying to spark a conversatio... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: How Afton Vechery Hopes to Make Fertility Testing Accessible | This week on Behind Her Empire, we hear from Afton Vechery, the co-founder and CEO of Modern Fertility, a startup that aims to make fertility testing more affordable and accessible.
Vechery drew on her personal experiences with reproductive... |
| - | Direct-to-consumer lab testing startup EverlyWell raises $50 million | Consumer diagnostics company EverlyWell has raised a $50 million financing round as it looks to build out its digital platform and expand its retail partnerships to widen access to its range of at-home tests.
The funding round was led by in... |
