LAST CHANCE TO JOIN this week's FemTech Expo - BioTech, Deep Tech and AI 📌; FemAging Fast Pitch Competition 💰; Oura acquires Proxy 💍 + more
This week, our team at WoW is continuing with our new annual program - FemTech Expo - a global platform and program of virtual events for innovators in the healthcare and women’s health industry.
Our aim with this program is to educate everyone about the available solutions that can help improve women’s health and offer visibility, networking opportunity, and access to investors for the innovators who are changing the healthcare landscape as we know it.
🚀 This month’s topic is - BioTech, DeepTech and AI, the virtual event is taking place this Wednesday, and 10 innovative companies you’ll be able to hear pitching are listed below alongside the agenda.
📣 Agenda - order of speaking:
6:00pm - Welcome words from the WoW team
6.05pm - 6.10pm Industry overview by Jillian Levovitz, CEO of FemHealth Insights
6:10pm - presentations start
6.10pm-6.20pm - Baymatob - AI-guided solutions to improve health outcomes for mothers and their babies. Baymatob's novel wearable sensor, Oli, underpins a powerful digital platform, that aims to transform maternal & fetal monitoring. Oli's first application aims to provide early warning for the leading cause of preventable maternal death, post-partum hemorrhage, aiming to reduce both the prevalence and severity of this devastating condition (Australia)
6.20pm - 6.30pm - Mirvie - Mirvie is the 1st to predict pregnancy complications before they happen by using RNA messages to reveal the underlying biology of pregnancy health. Using a simple blood test, the platform reveals vital information about a pregnancy’s unique biology that drives changes throughout pregnancy (US)
6.30pm -6.40pm - MyMonX by AITIS - AITIS is a deep tech, machine learning company. With Explainable AI at its core, AITIS has solutions in Health, Construction, Finance, and Lifestyle. Born out of healthcare, mymonX is initially aimed at healthy people who need to take control of their life through monitoring many health vitals including, for the first time, the ability to monitor glucose without the need for painful finger pricks or expensive invasive sensors (UK, Singapore, Holland)
6.40pm - 6.50 pm - NurExone - NurExone Biologic Inc. is a TSX Venture Exchange-listed pharmaceutical company that is developing a platform for biologically-guided ExoTherapy to be delivered, non-invasively, to patients who suffered traumatic spinal cord injuries (Israel)
6.50pm - 7.00pm - Onco GenomX - OncoGenomX is a prediction software company known for its revolutionary approach to individualized drug-tumor matching, with the mission to end under- and overtreatment of patients, avoid unnecessary costs, and minimize the risk of failure and liability. Their software (PredictionStar) enables the prescription of more than 20 different anti-cancer drugs – biologically targeted, goal-oriented, evidence-based, and applicable, for the certainty of therapy success before starting treatment (Switzerland)
7.00pm - 7.10pm - MIM Fertility - MIM Fertility creates AI products that revolutionise the reproductive medicine sector. FOLLISCAN automatically counts and measures follicles based on ultrasound examination. With the accuracy of the day, it can already predict when the patient should be scheduled for egg retrieval. EMBRYOAID automatically ranks and identifies the most promising embryos based on an extensive collection of time-lapse images (Poland)
7.10pm - 7.20pm - Behaivior AI - Behaivior is a digital health company that is making mental health recovery and wellness more accessible using AI, behavioral health tech, and wearables for crisis aversion & mental health support. Behaivior’s platform, Recovery, is a proactive, tailored, and wearable crisis prevention and mental health wellness system using the intelligence of machine learning and the science of behavior to help prevent crises and increase mental health, a tool that is especially critical to deploy due to historic levels of drug overdose and mental health crises (US)
7.20pm - 7.30pm - DeepLook Medical - FDA 510(k) cleared software technology revolutionizing oncology for cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment with patented shape-recognition software. DeepLook Medical's first product DL Precise automates lesion segmentation and measurement with unprecedented precision in multiple imaging modalities – all with a single click. They have launched as a women's health company specifically focused on breast cancer and dense breast visualization (US)
7.40pm - 7.50pm - Beyond Genomics - Beyond Genomix is a clinical-stage Swiss MedTech developing Next Generation Technologies for non-coding DNA analysis. With a focus on reproductive health, they have developed the only infertility test in the world, capable of explaining every infertility including that of idiopathic patients, male and female, from the comfort of their home (Switzerland)
7:50pm - 8.00 pm - Tastermonial - Tastermonial is a personalized nutrition platform that empowers consumers to make wiser food choices and brands to market health claims authentically. Through our mobile app integrated with wearable device data and our analytics web platform, we have crowdsourced 440,000+ datasets of tested food and health data to power AI-based food scoring making personalized nutrition accessible to the public (US)
8.00pm - Closing words from the organiser
We are super excited to announce a new FemTech Expo program partner - Bayer G4A! 🔥
G4A is Bayer’s digital health partnerships and investments team dedicated to scaling digital health companies in order to create impact and change the experience of health. their team’s vision is to reach health for all through digital health. To attain this goal they are working together with like-minded start-ups, digital health companies, government, investors, and strategic partners to offer early-stage start-up investments as well as commercial partnerships and late-stage investments. Welcome, Bayer G4A!
As usual, we have so many great sponsors and partners participating in this program, and we are so grateful for their support! 🙌🏽
Together with our sponsors and partners, we want to give visibility to innovative companies, and offer them tools, knowledge, and opportunities that will help them grow their businesses and bring their ideas to life.
We are grateful to our brilliant partners for offering participating companies their support, so check out the full list of the perks they offered to participating companies on the link below.
👩🏽💼 Who should apply for future events: Startup founders, innovators, and researchers who are working on an innovation related to women's health, digital health, or healthcare technology.
🎙 Why apply? If you are chosen to present at one of our Expo events, you will be seen by our global community of entrepreneurs, investors, pharma companies, and other key stakeholders, and get visibility on our blog and newsletter.
📆 Dates of our future events:
14 June - FemTech Expo: Wearables, IoT and Medical Devices
27 September - FemTech Expo: Autoimmune Diseases and Chronic Conditions
18 October - FemTech Expo: Menopause and Aging Tech
WoW community news and updates 💬
📆 Barclays Eagle Labs invites you to their next event - Investor Communications: attracting the right investors and building credibility, on May 31. Register here.
💰 Apply for FemAging Fast Pitch Competition where you could win $10k in cash! Apply at www.femaging.com, the deadline for applications is today May 15th, and the pitch event will take place on May 24th!
💍 Oura announces the acquisition of Proxy, best known for its digital identity signal platform, in an all-equity deal: The acquisition of Proxy’s digital identity technology and its previously acquired smart ring patent portfolio will accelerate ŌURA’s ability to innovate through future expansion of its market-leading smart ring technology and solidify its position as a leader in wearable technology. This news comes on the heels of ŌURA’s 10-year anniversary and the announcement of its newly appointed Medical Advisory Board. Oura has also been included in CNBC's 2023 Disruptor 50 at spot 33!
📆 Join us this week at Women’s Health Innovation Summit UK in London, more info + ticket booking via this link. Come say hi if you’ll be around this Thursday!
📆 Check out Femtech Lab’s "Decoding the Future of Women", the flagship women's health conference that will take place on June 12th, 2023, at the esteemed Wellcome Collection in London. Register now and be part of the future of women's health! Get 15% OFF by using the promo code WOW15 at checkout!
🚀 Our members from Elidah have launched ELITONE URGE, the first and only non-intrusive treatment for urge incontinence. This latest device, a natural successor to the highly successful ELITONE for stress incontinence, is specified to treat overactive bladder leaks that afflict 33 million women in the United States alone.
📆 Mark your calendars! Our member company fermata is excited to announce the fourth annual Femtech Fes!, happening from September 15th to 17th, 2023 in Tokyo, Japan! As the world’s largest femtech conference and exhibition, Femtech Fes! will showcase innovative technologies that deserve more attention and are often overlooked, making it the perfect platform for discovering groundbreaking products and ideas. This year, attendees will have the opportunity to purchase femtech products and gain insights into the latest industry developments through a series of speaker sessions, and connect with potential business partners in Japan throughout the conference. Don't miss out and stay tuned for more details by visiting the website!
🧪 Our friends from Ovum have offered our community 15% of their fully recyclable pregnancy tests using code WOWOVUM. Find out more and order here.
💬 Femtech: Why it's the Future of Global Healthcare, a new blog by our friends at Freshcode.
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