Willow, maker of wearable breast pumps, announced it acquired British femtech company Elvie to scale the companies' maternal health platforms.
San Francisco-based Willow offers in-bra breast pumps, pumping accessories and breast care. The company most recently received FDA 510(k) clearance for its breast pump, Willow Generation 3 Breast Pump, in October of last year.
Elvie offers its own line...
Women's telehealth company Wisp and female pelvic floor and physical therapy company Origin announced a partnership to allow their members to access each other's services.
Wisp offers same-day appointments for women seeking treatment for sexual and reproductive health tools. Patients can connect with a licensed medical provider and, if needed, obtain a prescription for same-day in-person pickup...
Tia, a hybrid women's healthcare company, has joined forces with Nourish, a food-as-medicine platform, to connect patients to nutrition counseling services via Nourish's network of registered dietitians. At the same time, Tia says it will enhance its model of providing holistic, integrated care that supports women through various stages of life.
Tia members will have access to customized...
During the JPM Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Zhenya Lindgardt, CEO of Sera Prognostics, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss the company’s focus on preventing preterm birth, a leading cause of neonatal mortality, by identifying protein markers that indicate risk.
MobiHealthNews: How does Sera work in women's health?
Zhenya Lindgardt: Sera is a unique company. Any executive dreams of...
Virtual women's healthcare platform Allara Health scored $26 million in Series B funding, bringing its total raise to $38.5 million.
Index Ventures led the round with participation from existing investor GV (Google Ventures).
WHAT IT DOES
Allara Health offers a virtual care platform for women battling chronic hormonal conditions, such as endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and...
Women's health company Teal Health announced it garnered an additional $10 million in seed funding to support the launch of the Teal Wand, an at-home, self-collect cervical cancer screening device, which is currently under review by the FDA.
The additional capital will bring Teal Health's funding to $23 million.
Emerson Collective and Forerunner led the round with participation from Serena...
Alice Zheng, partner at women's health-focused venture capital firm Foreground Capital, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss women's health funding in 2025–and the changing investment environment around the sector.
MobiHealthNews: Tell me about your work in women's health and your investments.
Alice Zheng: I'm a partner at a fund called Foreground Capital, which invests exclusively in women's...
PatientsLikeMe (PLM), a patient-engagement and activation platform, is announcing the launch of Ella, an AI assistant to help women manage their health, powered by generative AI platform Ema.
PatientsLikeMe is a personalized health network with a patient support community that allows patients to learn from each other's lived experiences. Users can also access education, tools and services to...
Singapore may be technologically advanced in healthcare, however, there may be sections in the health system that have yet to catch up – including sexual health.
In this small island nation-state of nearly six million people, sexual and reproductive health remains a topic too sensitive and intimate to be discussed in the open.
Access to the internet and the general acceptability of telemedicine...
Pregnancy and postpartum care startup Ruth Health is closing its business after reflecting "on challenges ahead in a fragmented maternity care space where [it] failed to find scalable product market fit," the company's CEO said.
Ruth offered virtual pelvic floor physical therapy and lactation support, which could be accessed during pregnancy and after birth, as well as C-section recovery, which...
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