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Future Fertility, a Toronto-based health technology company specialising in AI-powered fertility insights, has entered the Japanese market through a new commercial partnership with Kato Ladies Clinic — a globally recognised leader in IVF research and advancing clinical fertility care. The collaboration marks Future Fertility’s first partnership in Japan and reflects growing global demand for technologies [...]

By Olga Melita, founder, NeuroScent In the East, menopause is not feared - it is revered. It is known as The Second Spring - a time when a woman’s vital energy, once directed outward toward nurturing, creating, building and holding space for others, begins to return inward. This is not the end of [...]

By Ruby Raut, founder and CEO, WUKA If you have ever noticed that your cramps feel sharper, your mood dips harder, or your energy seems to disappear during the colder months, you are not imagining it. Winter can genuinely make periods feel more painful and more difficult to manage. The combination of cold weather, less [...]

By Ruby Raut, founder and CEO, WUKA When we think of period products, the usual concerns are comfort, absorbency, cost and maybe sustainability. But there is another dimension — one less talked about but increasingly evidenced: chemical exposure via intimate-use products, and what this might mean for hormones, fertility, our microbiome and long-term health. What [...]

By Ruby Raut, founder and CEO, WUKA Over the past year, headlines about “toxic period products” have been hard to ignore. Stories about PFAS, heavy metals, and hormone disruptors in pads, tampons, and underwear have sparked global concern, and for good reason. But behind the fear, there’s a scientific story worth understanding. At the recent [...]

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 [...]

Ten FemTech innovations have been chosen for Accelerating FemTech: Evaluate, led by Health Innovation South London and DigitalHealth.London with UK partners. The accelerator, part of the Innovate UK Biomedical Catalyst, supports women’s health solutions at technology readiness level 4 or higher, meaning prototypes proven in a lab or relevant setting and preparing for market entry. [...]

By Wolfgang Hackl, CEO, OncoGenomX Inc., Allschwil, Switzerland “Free” digital health tools are rarely free. In most cases the user – healthy or patient - pay with something far more valuable than a subscription fee: intimate, high-granularity data about their bodies, behaviours, and vulnerabilities. As digital health platforms grow into critical infrastructure for care, research [...]

By Maxime Kryvian, co-founder and CEO of MyCelsius Menopause remains one of the biggest taboos in women’s health. Often treated as a private matter to be discussed quietly, when it is a significant life stage that deeply affects the physical, mental, and social well-being of millions of women. Yet menopause symptoms are still [...]

By Dominique Antiglio, Sophrologist, Wellness Entrepreneur, and Founder of BeSophro The pace of modern life, especially for women leading in tech and innovation, can feel relentless. We’re constantly processing, planning, problem-solving, and pushing forward. Yet behind every strategic decision and creative breakthrough often lies a hidden burden: cognitive overload. This invisible mental strain – [...]