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Happy Monday everyone! 🙂
It’s not a secret that finally, after years of being overlooked, women’s health is having its moment. According to Frost & Sullivan’s report, the femtech (female technology) market revenue is expected to reach$1.1 billion by 2024, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.9%. The report states that, through solutions targeting early diagnosis and leveraging connected healthcare services, these technologies can reduce healthcare costs, decreasing the overall cost burden of a country while elevating healthcare standards and quality of life for women. But it took a long time for female healthcare to be where it is today.
breathe ilo, OCON Healthcare and Eli Health are three startups leading the way in innovation in this space, proving that no area within the femtech space is saturated with innovative companies and that there is still so much growth potential in this market.
Check out the full story via Forbes 👇
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Upcoming WoW webinars, meetups, and conferences 🌎 📆
Last chance to book your ticket for the HEALTH TECH 2.0 virtual conference, happening this Thursday, from 9am - 7pm GMT. 700+ registrations so far, so don’t miss out on this go-to health tech event of 2021! Tickets are available until January 27, 12pm GMT!
Many thanks to our partners and sponsors Royal Philips, Mouser Electronics, Garmin, Essity Ventures / Essity, LELO, fermata inc., Intimina, and Fertifa for their support of this event!
And more happening in February 👇
👫 WoW members’ monthly gathering, February 3
👶🏼 WEBINAR - Fertility, Pregnancy & Maternal Health, February 4 (FREE for WoW members, become a member here)
⌚️ 👗 WoW members’ monthly gathering - Wearables, Fashion and Fashion Tech, February 10
👩🔬 WEBINAR - Wearables & Healthcare: Female Founders Stories, February 11 (FREE webinar in partnership with RS Components)
Community events, news, and updates 💻🌎📆
📌 Our WoW member Catherine Davies is running a super cool program for senior women in health and would love to include some female founders of health tech companies. It consists of must-attend sessions such as learning to be resilient with an Olympian guest expert, how to engage with politics with a former Home Secretary, what investors are predicting in 2021 with a VC guest expert, and more. Click here to find out more + the first 3 WoW members to sign up can join for free, 30% discount for everyone else (please use the promo code WOW when prompted).
📌 Our WoW member Pauline Issard is looking for a product manager role in the IoT/wearables space for her company. If you fit the bill for this role or know someone who might be interested, you can connect with Pauline via LinkedIn here.
📌 Our WoW member Christina Vanvuren Christina, founder + CEO of Femtech Media Group, is producing the first-ever awards to celebrate innovation in femtech - The Femmys. Like The Emmys, but for women's healthcare tech. 💪🏽 She’s looking to partner with brands (and individuals with an audience of womxn) to help them meet the audacious but totally possible goal of 100 media partners reaching 1 million womxn worldwide. Get in touch with Christina via email!
📅 Tuesday Talks: "Ecosystem Giants" with Tessy Antony de Nassau, February 2
🎤 Apply to pitch to Angel Academe, currently accepting applications for 2021 pitch events
For Female Founders, Women In Tech & Allies 👩🏾⚕️👩🏼🏫👩🔬
Industry news and updates 💻🌎📆
This startup says its AI can better spot a healthy embryo — and improve IVF success
Smartwatches can help detect COVID-19 days before symptoms appear
Fungal wearables and devices: Biomaterials pave the way toward science fiction future
CES 2021: 'Wearable tech that’s like using the Force’
Keyble is wearable tech that lets you pay using fingerprint authentication
Virtual primary care, symptom checker startup K Health closes $132M Series E
Philips and Merck partner to develop personalised fertility treatment
What’s ahead for digital health in 2021?
Berlin-based health tech investor Heal Capital closes €100 million fund
Why More Startups And VCs Are Finally Pursuing the Menopause Market: ‘$600B Is Not ‘Niche’’
Cancer can be precisely diagnosed using a urine test with artificial intelligence
DeepMind, OpenAI, FAIR: AI researchers rank the top AI labs worldwide
Amazon opens Alexa AI tech for the first time so car makers can build custom assistants
Google launches suite of AI-powered solutions for retailers
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