Femtech World reveals startup of the year shortlist

We are excited unveil the three finalists competing for one of the Femtech World Awards’ most coveted honours: the Startup of the Year Award, sponsored by Future Fertility.

This award celebrates an early-stage company making a bold impact in women’s health through innovation, vision and execution.

The winner will be announced at our virtual ceremony on 19 June, with the decision made by a representative from category sponsor Future Fertility.

Congratulations to the shortlist and thank you to everyone who entered or nominated.

Startup of the Year Shortlist

Hello Inside is the first women’s health AI company to turn daily metabolic signals into outcomes women feel and healthcare systems reimburse.

Women’s health has long been under-researched, and current AI benchmarks fail on women’s health questions roughly sixty percent of the time.

Hello Inside built the architecture to close that gap.

Across four years and 12,000+ validated metabolic profiles, three in four women improve at least one symptom within ninety days.

They lose four kilograms in three months, moving from overweight into the healthy range. In a clinical study with Alisa Vitti’s Flo Living, 91.9 per cent reduced PMS burden within sixty days.

U-Ploid is an early-stage biotechnology company tackling one of the most fundamental challenges in fertility care: the sharp, age-related decline in egg quality that limits outcomes across IVF and egg freezing.

While much of the field focuses on improving assessment and selection, U-Ploid is developing a first-in-class therapeutic approach designed to improve egg quality itself by addressing the biological causes of age-related chromosomal errors.

Supported by strong preclinical evidence and now advancing into human studies, U-Ploid combines scientific rigour, regulatory discipline and long-term vision to help redefine what is possible in fertility care.