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Manta Cares has secured US$5.4m to expand its digital cancer platform, which helps patients and care partners manage treatment complexity. The company offers a free platform to track symptoms, medications, appointments, treatment decisions and daily logistics. Founded and led by chief executive Samira Daswani, a breast cancer survivor and entrepreneur, the company aims to simplify [...]

UK biowearable startup Emm has raised £6.8m to launch what it claims will be the world's first smart menstrual cup with connected app. The London-based company says its device measures flow volume and tracks cycle metrics such as duration, frequency and regularity, offering personalised health insights. The cup uses medical-grade silicone with sensors developed over [...]

Midlands-founded health-tech scale-up Rem3dy Health has landed £1.4m in new funding. The announcement was made at Birmingham Tech Week, as part of their Scale-Up Summit. During the event, Founder and CEO Melissa Snover confirmed that the Amsterdam-based Borski Fund, which specialises in backing high-growth, women-led ventures, has invested £900,000 in Rem3dy Health, alongside a further [...]

Dutch femtech startup Yon E Health has raised €250k in pre-seed funding to develop a smart vaginal health sensor that measures pH and temperature. The device will monitor key indicators linked to fertility, infection risk and reproductive wellbeing, tackling what the company says are long-standing gaps in women’s healthcare. Founded by Roswitha Verwer in 2022, [...]

LiviWell has raised US$3.3m seed funding to advance FDA clearance and ready the launch of Livi, a post-intercourse device for vaginal microbiome balance. Livi is a medical-grade polyurethane foam device inserted with an applicator immediately after intercourse. It absorbs semen and other fluids in under 60 seconds, helping to maintain vaginal pH and support the [...]

By Melissa Wallace, CEO & Founding Partner of Fierce Foundry Just a few years ago, so many conversations around women’s health in the U.S. felt like they were still just making the case for why investment mattered. Panels, white papers, TED-style talks pointed to under-funding, data gaps, structural bias. But something has shifted. Across healthcare [...]

London-based women’s health platform SheMed has raised €43m to expand its UK operations and further develop its personalised healthcare platform. The company, founded by sisters Olivia and Chloe Ferro in April 2024, will use the investment to scale its medical and technology teams, strengthen clinical infrastructure and enhance its data-driven systems. SheMed offers weight management [...]

The flagship women’s health summit brought together over 400 visionary founders, funders and innovators, with a shared mission of transforming women's health worldwide. This year’s Women’s Health Week, which took place at the Barbican, London from 14-17 October, showcased a sector once considered by funders to be too much of a ‘niche’, meeting a crucial [...]

There’s a sense of momentum in women’s health right now. In the span of just weeks, major new funds have been announced, mobilising hundreds of millions of dollars for maternal health, reproductive rights, and research into conditions that disproportionately affect women. It feels like the shift the sector has been waiting for, but the real [...]

Fraiya Ltd has secured £1.75m to test how artificial intelligence could improve fetal ultrasound screening across several NHS sites. The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) grant will support a 27-month trial of AI-assisted anomaly detection in pregnancy scans. If successful, the tool could be integrated into NHS services and shape national standards [...]