What You Should Know:
- Today, former Livongo executive Dr. Kimon Angelides announced the launch of FemTec Health, a women's health sciences and beauty company with $38M in funding focused on using technology and data to transform the total healthcare experience for women.
- Investors, capital and shareholders include Longmont Capital, Ithaca LifeSciences, Unilever Ventures, Estee Lauder, Shiseido, e.Ventures, Viking Global, and Trinity Capital with more than $38M raised to date.
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Babyscripts, NUVO Partner to Deliver Comprehensive Remote Pregnancy Care Solution
What You Should Know:
- Babyscripts, a virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, today announced a strategic partnership with Nuvo Group, a femtech startup commercializing INVU by Nuvo™, an FDA-cleared, remote fetal monitoring and management platform. InVU by Nuvo features a user-friendly wearable sensor band that gives physicians an inside look into the womb, remotely to drive critical diagnostic decisions wherever the patient is.
- By integrating Nuvo’s INVU technology
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Alpha Medical Lands $24M for Women’s Virtual Primary Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- Femtech company Alpha Medical, today announced it has raised $24M in Series B funding to expand its market share in women's virtual primary care. Alpha Medical recognizes that women’s healthcare needs reshaping to include reproductive health, primary and urgent care, and mental health services.
- Alpha Medical leverages a unique telemedicine platform diagnosing and treating women quickly and conveniently from the comfort of their own home. The Alpha clinical team
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Tia Raises $100M to Build Modern Medical Home for Women
What You Should Know:
- Women's healthcare company Tia just announced a $100M series B round, representing one of the largest raises for a woman-led startup at the series B stage.
- Tia now provides whole-woman care to women throughout their entire lives via a blended virtual and in-person care model that fuses primary care, mental health, gynecological care and other wellness services like acupuncture. Backed by a care coordination team and proprietary software system, Tia delivers care
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Femtech Startup Babyscripts Secures $12M for Virtual Maternity Care Solution
What You Should Know:
- Babyscripts, a Washington D.C.-based virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, announced it has raised $12M in Series B funding led by MemorialCare Innovation Fund, a strategic healthcare investment company, and will focus on the rollout of Babyscripts Virtual Maternity Care solution to providers across the US, as well as the development of care models specifically targeted to payers. Other investors in the Series B round include Philips and the CU Healthcare
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Femtech: Babyscripts Partners with Privia Health for Remote Pregnancy Care
What You Should Know:
- Privia Health, a national physician enablement company that collaborates with medical groups, health plans and health systems, has teamed up with Babyscripts, the leading virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, to provide the Babyscripts platform to their providers, enabling physicians with Privia Women’s Health to deliver cutting-edge remote care to their pregnant and postpartum patients across the nation.
- Pregnant patients who receive care from the more
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Virtual Health Clinic for Women & Families Maven Reaches $1B Valuation
What You Should Know:
- Maven, a New York City-based virtual health clinic for women and families announced it has raised $110M in Series D funding co-led by Dragoneer Investment Group and Lux Capital, with participation from BOND and existing investors Sequoia, Oak HC/FT, and Icon Ventures. Maven also welcomed Oprah Winfrey as an investor in its Series D round.
- This brings Maven’s total funding to more than $200M at a valuation north of $1B-- making them the only unicorn in women’s and
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M&A: Labcorp Acquires Ovia Health to Expand Women’s Health Capabilities
What You Should Know:
- Labcorp has announced the acquisition of femtech startup Ovia Health, a digital health platform used by millions of women seeking information and support with family planning, pregnancy, and parenting. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition extends Labcorp’s position as a leading, go-to source for women’s health insights, opens new avenues for personalized care experiences, and fosters better dialogue between
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Future of Femtech and Technology: An Emerging Innovative Crossroads
In recent years the technological field has taken revolutionary steps to balance out gender disparities. This has led to the advent of a female-centric health technology market that utilizes tech as a proponent for women's health and overall wellness.
You must have seen (or at least heard of) an app that focuses explicitly on women's issues. These tools are part of a growing collaboration between health and technology known as femtech. Areas that are currently represented include sex and
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Analysis: Why Digital Health Investors are Falling in Love with Femtech
Women’s health technology, known as Femtech, is one of the fastest-growing and well-funded categories of digital health. Femtech generally encompasses a range of digital health software and tech-enabled service providers that cater to the specific biological needs of women. These needs span from general health and wellness to reproductive health, including fertility, pregnancy, and nursing care.
Today, reproductive health is the focal point of femtech, thanks in part to the
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