Better menopause - are we there yet? 🤷🏼♀️; NHS Innovation Accelerator - applications are open! 👩🏽💻; FERTI·LILY wins the bronze award at the NPPA 🏆; WoW women blogs + more
Biweekly newsletter about the latest news and updates on innovation and diversity in wearable tech, health tech, and femtech space.
Happy Monday, everyone! 🌞
Menopause is a journey every woman, everywhere, undertakes.
By 2030, more than 47 million women globally are expected to enter menopause each year. Menopause symptoms can vary enormously, but they can be severe: disrupted sleep, debilitating joint pain, depression, and anxiety. In the U.K., nearly one in three women who were going through menopause said they had taken sick days for their symptoms, and a quarter of women with serious symptoms said it had caused them to leave their jobs.
This is why this month we are dedicating our FemTech Untapped webinar and other relevant activities to this particular topic - menopause. 👇🏽
Join us to hear from four amazing women and innovative companies on what the future of menopause looks like and how tech innovation is helping to shape it.
Our webinar partner for this session is - Joylux, a leading menopausal platform company offering high-tech home-use medical and wellness devices, digital tools, and products that address menopause-related intimate health concerns such as incontinence, vaginal dryness, sexual function, hot flashes, and other common symptoms. Their hero product is the vFit/ vSculpt device – the first home-use device clinically-validated to improve genitourinary syndrome of menopause using photobiomodulation technology. Joylux products are sold in over 10 countries around the world under the brands Joylux, vFit, vSculpt, Cooling Care, and HER Intimate Care. Its mission is to help women find delight in their lives, through all phases of menopause.
Many thanks to our program partner Goodwin for supporting our FemTech Program, too! 🙏🏽
Thank you for tuning in this Monday, happy reading! Marija & Anja 💌
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WoW community news and updates 🗞
Attention health innovators! Do you have an evidence-based, high-impact innovation that you want to spread nationally? The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) offers bespoke support to scale innovations and includes a learning program, mentorship, and access to the NHS England and The AHSN Network logos.
The call for applicants is open until 11.59 pm on Friday 28 October, so if you're an innovator with a proven health solution, apply for the 2023 program today!
*The NIA program is delivered in partnership with The AHSN Network and the Accelerated Access Collaborative.
🏆 Our member company FERTI·LILY won the bronze award at the NPPA, National Parenting Product Award (Ireland), in the "Best fertility support" category! 👏🏽
🏆 Congratulations to our WoW member Margaret Zablocka and her team at Onoco @onoco_app for being selected for the launch of the App Store Foundations Program in the UK. The program provides Onoco and 10 other app developers with tailored support, including 1-2-1 sessions, with experts within the @apple team to help them improve their apps and grow their businesses. 👏🏽
📆 Barclays Eagle Labs is running one of their HealthTech Meetups on October 26, register for a free ticket here. They also have launched the Propel@YH digital health accelerator in Partnership with the Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network and Yorkshire and Humber NHS Care Partnership as well as the University of Leeds and others. This is an in-person event in Leeds. More info + booking here.
📆 Tech4Eva invites you to Tech4Eva Roadshow - The Connection to Switzerland, taking place on October 18!
📆 Our member company FemTech Lab has partnered with XCHG spaces to create the first FemTech Hub in London. The space is designed to foster meaningful connections and collaborations that can only happen through personal interactions. Want to see what the FemTech Hub is all about? Come join us at the FemTech Hub Open Day and explore the amazing space, meet FemTech Lab founders, and network with investors and partners. Register for one of the upcoming dates here.
📆 Join our friends from FemTech Focus at their monthly FemTech Book Club on October 26 hosted by Karen Wells and our member Susan Stover! Book your ticket here.
WoW blog 👩🏽💻
📌 WoW Woman in FemTech I Daniella Gilboa, co-founder and CEO of AIVF
📌 WoW Woman in Beauty Tech I Miranda Mathews, Managing Director for Treatwell UK and Ireland
📌 WoW Women in Sexual Health I Whitney Geller and Yasemin Emory, co-founders of Jems
📌 WoW Woman in Mental Health I Dr. Anisha Patel-Dunn, Chief Medical Officer at LifeStance Health
📌 WoW Woman in Health Tech I Livia Ng, founder and CEO of Neuroute
📌 WoW Woman in FemTech I Sarah Kellogg Neff, CEO of The Lactation Network
📌 WoW Woman in Health Tech I Rachel Mack Robinson, President and founder of DotCom Therapy
📌 WoW Woman in VC I Lu Zhang, founder and Managing Partner of Fusion Fund
📌 WoW Woman in FemTech I Roya Pakzad, founder and CEO of Feminade
📌 WoW Woman in FemTech I Anke Sinnigen, founder of wexxeljahre
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