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‘Femtech’ Evolving Beyond Periods, Pregnancy And Postpartum

What’s Next In $1.2tn Women’s Health Industry?

 
• By Marion Webb

Digital female-centric primary and preventive care and fertility support were top-funded women’s health segments in 2021, drawing $668m and $330m in investments, respectively. Going forward, experts anticipate innovation to address unmet needs related to menopause, vaginal microbiome, endometriosis, and other chronic conditions, and surgeries such as hysterectomies and mastectomies.

Women's Health
• Source: Alamy

“Femtech” companies will branch in new directions in the coming years to address unmet needs and distance themselves from the competition in a women’s health market expected to reach a whopping $1.19tr by 2027. 

That is the eye-popping figure reached in a Femtech Landscape Report 2021 co-authored by nonprofit FemTech Focus and Coyote...

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