Happy holidays and THANK YOU for being with us in 2022! 🎄❤️
Biweekly newsletter about the latest news and updates on innovation and diversity in wearable tech, health tech, and femtech space.
Happy Monday, everyone! 🌞
It’s safe to say this year has been no less challenging than 2021 - for female entrepreneurs, for women’s health, for innovation, and for us at WoW as well. But we all survived because female founders are resilient and they can do anything! Right? 🥰
Some of our 2021 highlights 💎
👫 614 new members joined us this year 🤩
🎤 We organized 40+ virtual events, panels, workshops, fireside chats, members meetups’ and webinars this year alone with 50+ speakers participating, and were supported by 15+ amazing sponsors and partners throughout this year who helped us deliver our events and programs, we are so grateful to them! 🥰
⚡️ We launched our FemTech Untapped program where we tackled some of the most pressing issues around women’s health
📝 We interviewed 60+ WoW women for our blog
🔥 We grew our WoW FemTech LinkedIn group to 2,300+ industry professionals, where we daily connect with amazing startup founders, researchers and innovators
🔥 We delivered some great resources for our members including our Job board where 500+ companies post their job ads regularly, our Events list with 100+ key industry events to attend, and our Startup programs list where we compiled a list of 100+ industry programs, accelerator and incubator opportunities of interest to our community of entrepreneurs and startup founders!
We are so grateful for all of you, our wonderful community, for cheering us up, for supporting us, and for being with us along the way, and we hope you stay with us on this journey in 2023. 🥰
We would appreciate it if you could fill out our 1-min survey and leave us your feedback about what you would like to see us doing in 2023! This will help us greatly in creating our content and events calendar for the year to come! Thank you. 🙏🏽
Thank you for being part of WoW! 🙌🏽
Marija & Anja ❤️
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Today’s newsletter is brought to you in partnership with HITLAB!
📌 Applications for HITLAB’s Women's Health Tech Challenge are open and will close on December 14th with the final 2022 Women's Health Tech Challenge date taking place in a virtual format on Friday, February 10th, 2023.
There are four categories for which you can apply - NGOs/Non-profits, series pre-seed, seed, and A. Two finalists will be picked from each category. 8 founders of companies at all stages of development will pitch their companies before our panel of esteemed judges.
🏆 Winners will receive a cheque for $10,000.00 U.S. dollars, sponsored by Goodwin Procter, $10,000 U.S. dollars of in-kind legal services from Goodwin Procter, up to $10,000 U.S. dollars worth of accounting services from Withum, eligibility to participate in a rapid pilot study designed and implemented by HITLAB’s research and evaluation team, and more.
WoW community news and updates 🗞
🔥 Check out our '200 trailblazing leaders in women's health and femtech' 2022 list!
💬 Our member company Amulet announced a partnership with Imperial College London! Find out more here! 👏🏽
💰 Guidea, a WoW member company, an award-winning UX design agency, and partner to 20 Fortune 100 companies, is investing $500k in FemTech innovation through their UX design sponsorship program Femovate. Read more about it here.
📣 Are you fundraising or trying to scale your start-up? Calling all aspiring entrepreneurs and emerging start-up teams in women’s health to join the Tech4Eva cohort 2023! The program run by EPFL Innovation Park is completely equity free and global. View more info on the program and testimonials here. Apply by February 1st via this link.
🏆 Our friends from FabLittleBag were finalists in the Amazon Launchpad Award for Innovation, have their first sports stadium with The Stoop, home to the Harlequins Rugby Club, a 12,000 seater stadium, now with FabLittelBag Dispensers in all cubicles, as well as an Irish distributor to add to their USA, Australia and South African distributors! Congrats Martha Silcott and FabLittleBag!
💬 Our member Carrie Nixon, attorney at NixonGwiltLaw, shared with us their three recent blog posts, check them out via these links ➡️ Key Takeaways for Remote Therapeutic Monitoring in the Final 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: “General Supervision for all RTM”; Reimbursement for Chronic Pain Management in the 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: New Opportunities for Patients and Providers and HLTH 2022: A Recap for Healthcare Innovators
📆 The team from Clementine is running a super practical workshop in NY for free - in this one-hour workshop the founder of Clementine Kim Palmer & the founder of Meet the Moon Lab, Leah Larwood will facilitate a session that will help you to review 2023. Register here. And if you are struggling to find something meaningful and helpful to send to people this Christmas, then you can gift a membership to Clementine. They'll send it in the post, with a personalised card. Link here. 🎁
📣 FemTech Lab announced applications for its Spring 2023 Cohort! FemTech Lab is a global ecosystem supporting early-stage startups in female health & wellness. Passionate about accelerating fair healthcare for all women around the world, and ultimately helping women reach their full potential through a better understanding of their bodies and cyclic nature. Find out more and apply here.
💡 Our member company Elidah is shipping its ELITONE device to the United Kingdom (purchase it here). And, they are launching their line of BetterSleep™ socks to prevent nocturia (or waking up a night to pee). These are fun and proven medical-grade compression socks that prevent fluid retention in the legs so that fluids are processed by the kidneys during the day and not at night. Check them out here.
🎁 For the month of December our member Nicola Lucie is offering our members a 10% discount on all 1:1 Shadow Work for Women Programmes: Inner Restoration 4-Wk Programme and Shadow Work for Women 9-Month Programme. Use code WOW-RESTORATION for 10% off at checkout. *Offer is valid until 31 December 2022.
🗺 Our member company AlbionVC has published its European HealthTech Market Map 2022, including leading digital pharma and digital care startups in Europe. Find out more at this link.
➡️ Our member Christy Fernandez-Cull, CEO and founder of DaVinci Wearables – a smart underwear platform for female athletes and all those wanting personalized, real-time, and precise cycle insights to optimize for performance, is currently looking for females to opt-in to their data collection female health study effort. You can also pre-order access to their smart underwear here.
🥳 The Beyond the Paper Gown podcast has reached over 12,000 downloads for 2022! The podcast is hosted by our member Mitzi Krockover, MD, and aims to inspire, empower, and inform women with the latest information about their health and healthcare choices. Join them in each episode to take a look beyond the healthcare system with doctors, scientists, clinicians, and policymakers. You can also join theirs Beyond the Paper Gown community. If you’d like to get in touch please email them at info@womancentered.com.
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