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How digital health startups are navigating the post-Roe legal landscape
As state laws shift and abortion bans go into effect across the United States, companies are still trying to find ways to provide care while reimagining what healthcare should include.
How femtech startup Inne rebooted its hardware launch after COVID-19 chaos
It’s been a tough few years for Berlin-based femtech hardware startup Inne, which came out of stealth R&D in the fall of 2019, shortly before COVID-19 hit Europe. By January 2020, founder an
How one founder aims to both improve women’s health right now, and the gender gap in research
We’re in the business of talking to very impressive people who are working to solve incredibly tough problems— but Elizabeth Ruzzo, founder and CEO of adyn, may be one of the most impressive yet.
As it hits $100 million run rate, The Pill Club adds former Uber exec Liz Meyerdirk as CEO
Liz Meyerdirk made a name for herself at Uber as the senior director and global head of business development for the company’s Uber Eats business and she’s now turning her attention to wom
Twentyeight Health is a telemedicine company expanding access to women’s health and reproductive care
New York’s Twentyeight Health is taking the telemedicine services for women’s health popularized by companies like Nurx and bringing them to a patient population that previously hadn̵
Update: Closing on $75 million in new cash, Truepill plans at-home testing service as it nears $200 million in annual revenue
Truepill, the white-label healthcare services company that provides telehealth and pharmacy fulfillment services, is adding at-home medical testing as the third branch of its services powering the off
GoodRx is coming for subscription prescription services with the launch of GoodRx Care
Several months after discreetly acquiring the online prescription service HeyDoctor, GoodRx is launching a new service based on the acquisition, GoodRx Care, and offering a direct challenge to online
Birth control delivery startup Nurx approaches $300M valuation
Nurx raises $52 million in debt and equity funding in a round co-led by Kleiner Perkins and USV.
The Pill Club is donating 5,000 units of emergency contraception
How birth control delivery startups can better support women in today's political climate.
YourChoice Therapeutics is developing unisex, non-hormonal birth control
The latest Y Combinator-backed startup is targeting the $36 billion contraceptive market.
It’s a new era for fertility tech
We explored venture capitalists' latest bets on fertility and contraception tech, including Modern Fertility, Extend Fertility, Natural Cycles, Nurx, Clue and more.
The Pill Club raises $51M as VCs find new opportunities in women’s health
VMG Partners has led the $51 million round, with participation from new investors GV and ACME Capital (fka Sherpa Capital).
Electronics giant Philips invests in monitoring and information platform for expecting mothers
The international electronics and medical device giant Philips is pushing further into pregnancy and childcare services by leading a $6 million early stage investment in the pregnancy-focused app-deve
Birth control delivery startup Nurx now offers an at-home HPV testing kit
Kleiner Perkins-backed Nurx provides birth control, emergency contraception, the HIV prevention medication PrEP and an at-home HPV testing kit.
Natural Cycles contraception app told to clarify pregnancy risks
A multi-month investigation by Sweden’s Medical Products Agency into a number of unwanted pregnancies among users of ‘digital contraception’ app Natural Cycles has been closed afte
Contraception app Natural Cycles’ Facebook ad banned for being misleading
Natural Cycles, a Swedish startup which touts its body temperature-based algorithmic method for tracking individual fertility as an effective alternative to hormonal birth control, has been wrapped by
The FDA OK’d an app as a form of birth control
Don’t want to get pregnant? There’s a Food and Drug Administration-approved app for that. The FDA has just given the go ahead for Swedish app Natural Cycles to market itself as a form of b
Nurx raises $36 million and adds Chelsea Clinton to its board of directors
Telemedicine startup Nurx recently closed a $36 million funding round led by Kleiner Perkins. As part of the investment, Kleiner Perkins General Partner Noah Knauf is joining the startup’s boar
Clinic reports Natural Cycles app for 37 unwanted pregnancies since September
Swedish startup Natural Cycles, which offers an app-based product which it bills as a 'digital contraceptive', has been reported to Sweden's Medical Products Agency (MPA) by a local hospital after it
Birth control app Nurx now delivers to the ‘contraceptive deserts’ of Texas
About half the counties in Texas don't have the number of public clinics required to meet the contraceptive needs of the population. So Nurx, an at-home birth control delivery app, decided to give wom