Investment & deals

Clue, the women-led period and cycle tracker health and wellness app, has announced a significant and strategic investment from Verdane - the European specialist growth equity firm focused on technology-enabled businesses. The investment - which is a substantial contribution from Verdane's €2 billion growth fund - is the single largest investment in Clue to date [...]

ShanX Medtech, a female-led AMR diagnostics startup, has secured €24m to scale its rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) technology. The Eindhoven-based company has closed a €15m seed round and been awarded an €8.85m European Commission contract developed by the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority in collaboration with the European Health and Digital Executive Agency. [...]

Gut health solutions company Bactolife has successfully raised over €30 million in its Series B investment round. The funding will enable the company to commercialise its innovative Binding Proteins, a new food, feed and dietary supplement ingredient, and execute its human study programme, aimed at transforming human and animal health for proactive health management. This [...]

Femtech World explores the latest business developments in the world of women’s health. FemHealth Ventures closes oversubscribed US$65m Fund II FemHealth Ventures, a women’s health-focused venture capital firm, has closed on FemHealth Ventures Fund II at US$65m. The oversubscribed raise brings the firm’s assets under management to US$100m across two funds and further solidifies FemHealth [...]

Joy Parenting Club acquires Heba Care, widening its parenting support platform, and will roll out an AI tracker for feeding, sleep and nappies to all Joy users in 30 to 60 days. The tracker is currently in beta testing. Joy combines AI guidance on feeding, sleep, child development and everyday parenting with access to clinically [...]

Femtech app Ovum has agreed a strategic partnership with creative agency AKQA Australia to support growth and boost consumer adoption. The collaboration will see AKQA develop creative concepts across digital, PR and social channels, with a major brand moment planned for International Women’s Day 2026. Founded by Dr Ariella Heffernan-Marks, a former medical doctor turned [...]

Intermountain Health has partnered with Testmate Health, investing to expand access to rapid, low-cost STI tests in at-risk communities beyond traditional labs. STIs often go undetected, with an estimated 80 per cent of chlamydia and gonorrhoea infections missed each year. Testmate’s single-use, reader-free molecular tests for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae deliver results in under [...]

Revela has raised £411k pre-seed to develop AI that analyses ultrasound for earlier endometriosis diagnosis. Revela is building software that analyses ultrasound images early in the diagnostic pathway and returns a report for clinicians highlighting possible signs of endometriosis to review. The aim is to shorten the wait between a first GP visit, diagnosis and [...]

Joi + Blokes acquires HerMD, creating a virtual women’s health platform serving all 50 US states after HerMD’s shift to online-only care in spring 2025. HerMD relaunched as a virtual-only platform in spring 2025 after closing its physical sites in March 2025. Financial terms were not disclosed. The company had previously raised about US$30m, including [...]

MyBliss has secured investment from women-led angel groups to scale science-led intimacy care and women’s health research. The company, founded after co-founder Mo Carrier’s experience with hormonal contraception side effects, centres products on women’s bodies and needs. Its flagship MyBliss Ultra-Thin Condoms were developed using gynaecologist-informed criteria and strict formulation standards. The condoms are vegan-certified [...]