I am a woman - under-researched and underfunded!; FemTech – A market on the rise; Next WoW FemTech Untapped webinar - The rise of fertility tech + more
Biweekly newsletter about the latest news and updates on innovation and diversity in wearable tech, health tech, and femtech space.
Happy Monday, everyone! 🌞
In a piece written by Daniela Schardinger, VP of Marketing & Medical Affairs at OCON Healthcare, she discusses how historically, women's health has been underfunded and as a result under-researched. Until recently, many aspects of our female bodies and health were pretty unknown, and we are still playing catch-up.
“There are research gaps across all different areas of women’s health and the research that can be found today is usually quite old (we’re talking 30 to 60 years old!). Unfortunately, comprehensive studies evaluating these gaps aren’t frequently conducted due to a general lack of funding in this area. Up-to-date evidence from reputable sources is scarce or simply non-existent.”
Read the full article via this link.
Another piece, written by Sophie McGrath, a partner at Goodwin, and Kesten Laverty, an associate at Goodwin’s Technology and Life Sciences Group, discusses key femtech areas for future development in the near term but also highlights how securing investment remains a key challenge, with investment into companies focusing on women’s digital health companies representing only 3% of digital health funding.
You can read their full blog via Maddyness UK.
Thank you for tuning in this Monday, happy reading! Marija & Anja 💌
This newsletter is sponsored by WEAR Conference!
The annual WEAR Conference examines the significant breakthroughs and new opportunities made possible through the integration of textiles and technology through wearables. This event regularly brings together key players from across the smart fabrics, e-textiles, and wearable tech marketplace to hear the latest updates on market dynamics and industry innovations, wearable and smart fabric standardization, intellectual property and data collection, textile technology, and wearable healthcare and wellness, and more.
You can also join the WEAR | Smart Fabrics & Wearable Technology group on LinkedIn to connect with more industry professionals from this space!
WoW webinars and virtual events 🌎 📆
Many thanks to everyone who tuned in last week for our two webinars about menstrual and sexual health and wellbeing! We had an amazing team listening to our speakers, seeing their presentations, and going through all your questions during both sessions. 🥰
Many thanks to our program partners FemTec Health and Goodwin, as well as our webinar partners - Elix and The Lovehoney Group, for supporting this event and our femtech program! 🥰
In June, we are continuing with our FemTech Untapped program, and we will be covering innovations and topics related to fertility and fertility tech!
In this webinar, we will be discussing the latest innovations in the fertility space, the current challenges the industry and the patients are experiencing, how has the pandemic affected the patients and the treatments, what is the future of fertility, and what new options and trends we will be seeing in the future.
Our webinar partner for this session is FERTI·LILY, a company that developed and launched the FERTI·LILY Conception Cup, a reusable medical device that offers couples the ability to increase their chances of conception by 48% in the comfort of their home.
Join us on June 16th to hear from innovators and experts in this space!
Follow us on Eventbrite to stay up to date with all our future events and meetups! Link here.
Interested in joining us for one of our future webinars or you would like to discuss partnership and collaboration? Get in touch!
WoW community events, news, and updates 💻🌎📆
🎤 As part of the partnership between their client, @babycentreuk, and the @DHSCgovuk, our member company Thrive Agency have created a special Covid-19 edition of the Parent Pod podcast to address concerns pregnant women may have about the Covid-19 vaccine. Episode out now ➡️ http://ow.ly/1qgC50J9Ysp
📆 If you're curating nft art and you want to do it properly, you should probably pay attention to this week's WorldInnovationEconomics track at the World Economic Forum on May 25 where our member Kelly Vero be both schooling you and dropping the mic. Find out more.
📈 Our friends at Hi3 Network are looking to expand their community of creative tech experts and consultants. Whether you're a VR innovator, or business growth specialist, you could be just what their community of creative industry SMEs need to continue their business development. Find out more 👉 http://ow.ly/uEKL50IZlIP
🎤 Our member Rachel Braun Scherl always has some great guests on her Business of the V podcast! In her latest episode, she’s taking to Carli Sapir of Amboy Street Ventures! Check it out here.
🔥 Become a WoW member to learn from and connect with our community of entrepreneurs, designers, and technologists, leverage valuable resources, and discover career opportunities!
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