Top 25 health tech influencers to follow on Twitter; The rise of CBD; WoW Instagram giveaway; A pitch deck masterclass; Can fast fashion be sustainable? + more
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Last week nice folks from Sifted published their ‘Top 25 health tech influencers on Twitter’ list and we were so happy to see name of our CEO Marija Butkovic on the list alongside of many other colleagues from this industry! As Sifted’s Connor Bilboe explains:
Healthtech is a hefty sector, spanning digital health, femtech, pharma, AI-assisted diagnostics, drug discovery and plenty more. It makes money too, and a lot of it. In 2019, global healthtech investment totalled a staggering $7.4bn, with some of Europe’s healthtech companies landing big funding rounds. Last year’s biggest European healthtech deal came from London-based unicorn Babylon Health which raised $550m, while this year Stockholm-based digital health startup Kry raised $155m and Paris-based health insurance provider Alan raised $54m.
There’s also a fair few ‘influencers’ in the healthtech Twittersphere — founders, investors and medical professionals who are a goldmine of information — opening discussions, sharing resources and educating their followers.
Check out the full list and connect with these people on Twitter, you might learn a lot about this emerging space and connect with some other like-minded health tech enthusiasts!
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Community and industry news and updates
The first global virtual conference about FemTech / via Design Spark blog
FemTech from clinical trials to investments. Main threads from FemTech Forum 2020 / via Untitled Kingdom blog
Panel discussion - Boosting women founders, 12:30pm AEST
Launch Event: The Women's Health Innovation Coalition by Springboard Enterprises, July 21
Diversity Meets Technology conference, July 25 - 28
Enterprise Ireland’s Competitive Start Fund (CSF) opened applications for ‘All Sectors’ competition and a ‘Women Entrepreneurs’ Competition; each of the two €1,000,000 funds being launched will provide up to €50,000 in equity funding to successful projects. Both funds will close to applications at 3pm on Tuesday, 18th August 2020!
WoW Woman in Fem Tech | Maryon Stewart, healthcare expert and pioneer of the Natural Menopause Movement / via Women of Wearables blog
WoW Woman in Fashion Health Tech | Monika Dugar, fashion designer / via Women of Wearables blog
Women’s Healthcare: A Market Ripe For Disruption Lacks Investment / via Forbes
What Is the Right Price for Fashion? / via Vogue
Baby Headcams Reveal the World That Infants Actually See / via Medium
Garmin launches solar fitness tracker with 'indefinite' battery life / via Tech Radar
Evidation Health, whose tech helps aggregate health data from wearables and other sources for virtual clinical trials, raises $45M Series D led by B Capital / via MedCity News
Google’s secretive ATAP lab is imagining the future of smart devices / via Fast Company
What Consumer Tech Companies Need To Know About Medical Devices In The US / via Forbes
25 Women to Watch: Succeeding in a COVID World / via WomenOfInfluence
A Pitch Deck Masterclass - Lessons for founders from reviewing ~1000+ pitch decks / via Medium
Flipkart invests $35 million in Indian fashion brand to target youth / via TechCrunch
Tech is failing people with disabilities / via Sifted
Fixing an ageing approach to care / via Sifted
Virtual Accelerator programme to fast track tech innovation for a sustainable fashion industry / via Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Can Fast Fashion Be Sustainable? / via EcoWatch
Meet the Secret Algorithm That's Keeping Students Out of College / via Wired
How Artificial Intelligence Could Lead to Better Investment Decisions / via Barrons
3D Printing, Interactive Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Disrupting Intellectual Property Laws / via Courting the Law blog
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