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You have until Friday to nominate your femtech company of the year. The award is one of 10 featuring at Femtech World's third annual awards event, which attracts entries from across the UK, EU and Europe. The Company of the Year Award is for companies that have demonstrated exceptional leadership in tackling women's health needs [...]

By Chaitra Vedullapalli, founder and president, Women in Cloud Today’s leaders are carrying more than responsibilities. They are carrying caregiving roles, financial pressures, legal complexities, and the quiet emotional weight of sustaining performance in unpredictable times. And yet, most leadership forums still focus on productivity, growth, and scale, rarely addressing the human systems that enable [...]

Femtech World is continuing the search for a company to be crowned Startup of the Year. The award is one of 10 to feature at the third annual Femtech World Awards. The Startup of the Year Award celebrates an early-stage company making a bold impact in women’s health through innovation, vision and execution. The winning [...]

A new two-day summit in Hong Kong aims to highlight why supporting women’s health is not just a moral obligation but an economic imperative. Around the world, women continue to face barriers to healthcare—whether through regressive policies, underfunding or lack of access. At the same time, a growing number of women-led start-ups and companies are [...]

By Gloria Kolb, Co-Founder & CEO – Elitone Just a couple of months after launching Elitone in the UK, we were delighted to become an approved supplier to the NHS in March this year, to provide Trusts throughout the UK with Elitone as a new solution for pelvic health and incontinence. The NHS is the [...]

Femtech World explores the latest business and investment developments in the world of women’s health. UNFPA and Partners Launch Midwifery Accelerator to invest in midwives On World Health Day, UNFPA, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, and global partners launched the Midwifery Accelerator - a co-ordinated effort to reduce preventable maternal deaths by expanding [...]

The prestigious EU Women Innovators Prize has been awarded to Oxolife CEO Agnès Arbat at the European Innovation Council (EIC) Summit on the 3rd of April 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. The EU Women Innovators Prize is open to women founders and co-founders from across the EU and countries associated to Horizon Europe, who have founded [...]

Sigma Technology is partnering with Daya Ventures, a femtech venture studio, to close the US$1trn gender health gap.  Despite women making up half of the world’s population, they spend 25 per cent more of their lives in debilitating health than men. This disparity is due to a lack of clinical studies and insufficient investment in [...]

Female-founded period care brand, Riley, has achieved B Corp certification after a year-long application process. The assessment, conducted by B Lab, evaluates companies across five key impact areas: governance, workers, community, environment and customers. “We started Riley with the mission to create better periods, for people and our planet, and becoming a B Corp is [...]

Femtech World explores the latest investment developments in the world of women’s health. Arva Health raises US$1m to build India’s next-gen fertility clinics Arva Health has announced that it has raised US$1m in pre-seed funding to build next generation fertility clinics in India. The company has stated that the funding will fuel the launch of [...]