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Happy Wednesday everyone! 🙂
This Wednesday we have a very special announcement for you all!
On June 17, 2021, our team is bringing you another virtual global all-day conference - Investing and Fundraising in HealthTech and FemTech!
Join us for a whole day event to learn about Investing and Fundraising in HealthTech and FemTech space, meet successful founders and CEOs, find out who are the leading investors in this space, and connect with like-minded professionals from around the world!
This global virtual conference is a place where you can find answers to all your questions about fundraising and investment in this space. It's a global meetup of investors and founders sharing their insights, knowledge, best practices, and advice on how to raise money for FemTech and Health Tech startups. We gathered founders, angels, VCs, startup accelerators, and experts from the field to educate, inform and share best practices on different ways to raise money to grow the businesses and share lessons learned along the way. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital health adoption by several years, which reflected in the surge of venture funding in digital health as well.
According to CB Insights’ State Of Healthcare Q1’21: Investment & Sector Trends To Watch report, global healthcare funding hit a new quarterly record in Q1 2021 with a total of $31.6B in equity funding. Startups offering on-demand healthcare services ($1.2B across 17 deals) and biopharma research and development catalysts ($1.1B across 13 deals) secured the most funding across 2020 and 2021, Rock Health report shows. Q1 2021 saw an uptick in investment activity for certain clinical issues. Among companies supporting a specific clinical condition, mental health companies garnered the most amount of funding in Q1 2021.
Our speakers
Our speakers are coming from all sorts of backgrounds in the healthcare space - they are startup founders, innovators, investors, experts, and service providers. Some of them are:
➡️ Thang Vo-Ta, co-founder and CEO of Callaly
➡️ Miri Polachek, the CEO of Joy Ventures
➡️ Laura Feinstein, Senior Design and Technology Editor at Kickstarter
➡️ Sacha Waters, Senior Equity Fundraising manager at Crowdcube
➡️ Keren Leshem, CEO of OCON Healthcare
➡️ Anjel Noorbakhsh Ashman, CFA, Angel Investor at Ada Ventures and Investment Manager at Aureum
➡️ Karina Vazirova, co-founder of FemTech Lab
➡️ Jenny Fielding, Managing Director of Techstars New York and General Partner at The Fund
➡️ Maria Velissaris, Founding Partner of SteelSky Ventures
➡️ Kelly Dawson, Head of Innovation and Insight, and Merle Hall, the CEO of Kinneir Dufort
➡️ Elin Ng, co-founder and COO of Salve Health
➡️ Marina Pavlovic Rivas, co-founder and CEO of Eli Health
➡️ Saundra Pelletier, CEO of Evofem Biosciences, Inc.
➡️ Crystal Adesanya, founder and CEO of Kiira Health
➡️ and more!
Our partners and sponsors
This conference wouldn’t be possible without the participation of our sponsors and partners, who are not only very passionate about the innovation in the health tech space but also big supporters of Women of Wearables! 🥰
Joy Ventures is a startup studio dedicated to building and funding consumer well-being startups, on a mission to help people feel good and enjoy life, every day. Joy offers a unique investment model: funding and supporting founders and startups at various stages, seeding ideas, collaborating on new venture creation, and advancing innovation and early technology development.
OCON Healthcare’s mission is to introduce innovative medical solutions that allow women healthier choices while improving their well-being and quality of life. OCON develops, manufactures, and commercializes innovative women’s health products based on our IUB™ (Intra Uterine Ball) proprietary platform. The Company is also developing an innovative and disruptive pipeline of products using the IUB™ frame for additional indications including abnormal uterine bleeding.
Callaly is on a mission to reinvent period-care and to inspire people with periods to expect more from their products, using innovation to finally put customers’ needs first. Their patented product, the Tampliner®, is the first true redesign of the tampon in 80 years. Since their 2020 launch, they have sold almost a million period products, won numerous awards for their innovation and branding, including being named one of the Most Innovative Companies in the World by Fast company, and TIME naming the Tampliner one of Best Inventions of 2020.
Kinneir Dufort is a user-centered innovation and product development consultancy, collectively driven to Design a Better World by creating impactful change and positive outcomes for clients and the user. Combining creative, technical, and user-experience expertise, Kinneir Dufort works collaboratively, to define, create, develop and deliver high-quality products and experiences across the medical, consumer, and industrial sectors.
The organising team
Our WoW team is small but mighty. But, our most valuable asset, as always, is our community and we hope that by looking at our conference agenda, you see that too! And most importantly, we hope you can join us in June! 🙂
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