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The invisible cognitive burden women carry & what it's costing them at work By Katrina Zalcmane and Zahra Bhatti, co-founders of Véa. Two people can share household responsibilities while one still carries most of the mental load. One person does the shopping. The other notices what is missing, plans the meals, keeps track of what [...]

Upstart Impacts has opened applications for a women's health accelerator offering free commercialisation support to 10 early-stage biotech and medtech companies. The Philadelphia-based nonprofit aims to address gaps in medical research and expand opportunities for investment and product development among startups in Pennsylvania. The Women's Health Innovation Program will select participants in January, with its [...]

HSBC Innovation Banking has joined eight other founding partners of FemTick, an accreditation scheme aimed at fairer treatment of women's health businesses. Developed by CensHERship, the scheme will assess financial and commercial service providers on their approach to risk classification, customer experience and organisational accountability. It aims to help femtech companies identify providers whose policies [...]

Dotplot and John Bell & Croyden are inviting women to attend breast health focus groups to help shape new technology. The femtech startup is developing a handheld device designed to make breast self-checks more consistent, helping women better understand their bodies and feel more confident about acting when something changes. The partnership aims to gather [...]

Vespexx Inc., the AI femtech company behind Soonr, has been named a finalist in the Digital Health Hub Foundation Digital Health & AI Awards 2026 at HLTH, in the Rising Star track, Women’s & Family Health category. The company advanced from the Quarterfinalist stage announced in September. The Digital Health & AI Awards recognise organisations [...]

Unravel Health has raised €2.96m to develop a home hormone device designed to measure multiple hormones from a saliva sample in minutes. The London-based women’s health startup is developing the Micro Lab, a palm-sized device intended to allow women to monitor their hormone levels daily without laboratory visits. It is being designed to measure oestradiol, [...]

Collective X Health has launched with US$3.2m in pre-seed funding to expand its women’s health data platform and support further research. The company licenses research-backed insights on female physiology to wearable technology companies, digital health platforms and performance brands. The funding will support research across different life stages and conditions, expand the platform’s capabilities and [...]

Femtech companies developing technology to improve the health and wellbeing of girls and women could secure up to US$100,000 in funding, a year of expert technical support and access to UNICEF’s global network through a new initiative backed by Sweden and UNICEF. Applicants to the UNICEF FemTech Ventures programme must be registered in a UNICEF [...]

Gloriah has raised £600,000 in an oversubscribed funding round to expand its UK retail presence and prepare for growth in the US. The Scotland-based female health company focuses on supporting women through hormonal changes and intimate health concerns. Founded in 2021 by Jessica Rose Watson and Isla Wynne Thomas, Gloriah was created in response to [...]

Cycle-tracking app Clue has partnered with insurer Flora Fertility, giving policyholders free premium access while introducing its 100 million users to fertility insurance.