'Femtech' Is Busting Taboos Around Women's Health and Wellness—But What Is It Exactly?

Female-led startups are disrupting the wellness space, using technology to make health care more accessible, and broadening conversations on topics from periods to pregnancy to menopause. Meet the women who are leading the way.

 Does Femtech Give Users Control of Their Health or Take It Away?

Apps to track menstruation cycles and fertility are being marketed as tech that helps people take better care of their bodies. But who stands to reap the real benefits?

 Femtech flourishing: how women-led health technology is changing the sector for good

We know that technology has historically been a field dominated by men. But things are starting to change.

 Gender bias in medicine and medical research is still putting women’s health at risk

The lack of recognition of sex differences in biology and medicine is a huge issue research has only recently begun to rectify.

 How Femtech Innovations Can Help Break Taboos Around Women’s Health

Here's why we're investing more in women's health, an area traditionally ignored because of taboos.

 How femtech is putting women's healthcare front and centre

For a long time, femtech has been considered a niche, but a growing number of tech companies are hoping to change that narrative.

 Is ‘Femtech’ the Next Big Thing in Health Care?

Start-ups and tech companies are creating products to address women’s health care needs. It’s still a small segment of the market, but growing.

 The Importance of “Femtech” and Women in STEM

There is no doubt that bias is currently impacting medicine, science, and technology, which consequently affects all aspects of human life. Everyone is limited by their own perspective, but amplifying femtech tools, developing clinical research that includes women and minorities, and creating a more welcoming space in STEM careers for young girls will definitely help us go in the right direction.

 What if you could diagnose diseases with a tampon?

Women’s health care is often treated as all about reproduction. Some “femtech” startups are exploring the innovations that get overlooked as a result.

 Why femtech is becoming increasingly prominent

Many believe femtech draws attention to an aspect of healthcare that has been ignored for too long.

52 Women-Led Startups Driving The Future Of HealthTech And FemTech

The paltry amount of funding for FemTech is particularly shocking because this sector is expected to scale to $1.07 trillion by 2026. And global healthcare spending is predicted to reach over $10 trillion by 2022.

Could femtech be the answer to the gender health gap?

The term ‘femtech’, short for female technology, was originally coined in 2016 by Ida Tin1 (co-founder and CEO of menstrual cycle tracking app Clue) and refers to software, diagnostic equipment and products that use technology to improve the health and lives of women.

Femtech firms are at last enjoying an investment boom

Not a moment too soon.

From menopause to anxiety: the new tech tackling women’s health problems

Femtech has moved on from the early days when it mainly focused on periods and fertility. Today it incorporates everything from hormonal awareness and personalised fitness to sexual empowerment and the racier “sex tech” – think vibrators designed by women who understand their own physiology, and science-informed sex therapy advice apps.

In NYC, the Future of Healthtech Is Female

New York digital health companies created by and for women hit new heights this year, placing this city at the center of the burgeoning femtech space.

The femtech boom: Startups serving women's health

Women account for half the planet's population, yet women’s health has attracted little attention in terms of medical research and technological advances.

The unmet needs of Women’s health: is ‘Femtech’ the answer?

Visualising the shortcomings of women's health as it is - and as what it could be.

Women's health is the next tech boom, but that's not necessarily all good news

For now, perhaps the greatest service for women would be accurate online health information with good SEO.

Women's Healthcare Comes Out Of The Shadows: Femtech Shows The Way To Billion-Dollar Opportunities

Women’s health accounts for only 4% of the overall funding for research and development for healthcare products and services. The majority of spending on other diseases has a male-specific research focus and this is separate from the research spending on male-specific conditions such as prostate cancer, which accounts for 2% of overall funding. Yet women today make up 49.6% of the total population and the economic burden for women’s diseases is currently more than $500 billion.

‘Femtech’ Diagnostic Start-up Firms Want to Provide Women with At-Home Tests for Health Conditions That Currently Require Tests Done by Clinical Laboratories

Several young companies hope to expand the direct-to-consumer test market by introducing new diagnostic tests to serve the women’s health market.

“FemTech” is not and should not be a thing

This industry, though, does not encompass smartphones or computers or any of the many mainstream products that, you know, make women’s lives better. Instead, this category of companies “for women” predominantly focused on biological needs...