Business & startups

Vespexx Inc., an AI femtech company building Soonr, a preconception health platform designed for couples, today announced that it has been named a Quarterfinalist in the 2026 Digital Health & AI Awards in the Rising Star track, Women's & Family Health category. The Digital Health & AI Awards recognise companies and innovations helping shape the [...]

Cycle-tracking app Clue has partnered with insurer Flora Fertility, giving policyholders free premium access while introducing its 100 million users to fertility insurance.

Diadia Health, winner of the Femtech World AI Innovation Award, is working to revolutionise women’s health through AI-backed at-home testing. By analysing genetics, biomarkers and medical literature, Diadia addresses women’s health issues, taking a functional medicine approach to healthcare. With the goal of making personal healthcare accessible and affordable, Diadia Health uses technology to automate [...]

Early bird pricing for W Group's two flagship October summits - Women's Health Week Europe 2026 and Women's Sport Summit Europe 2026 - closes on 11 September. Both events take place at Emirates Stadium, London, bringing together founders, investors, corporates, and industry leaders shaping the future of women's health and sport. Women's Health Week Europe [...]

KOVE Medical has raised €1.7 million to support first-in-human studies of an implantable device designed to reduce preterm birth risk after foetal surgery. The University of Zurich spin-off is developing a device designed to close defects left by surgical instruments following fetoscopy, a minimally invasive procedure performed inside the womb. Fetoscopies can treat [...]

The Women's Health Innovation Summit (WHIS), the event uniting the global  women's health ecosystem, has just announced 18 new speakers joining the agenda for  its 2026 summit, taking place October 13–15 at Encore Boston Harbor. The latest additions bring further depth across pharma, clinical research, health  systems, venture, and policy, reinforcing WHIS's role as the [...]

Medtech startup Peripear has won an Innovate UK award for developing a wearable designed to prevent perineal trauma during childbirth. The Oxford-based company is developing a hands-free warm compress device for use on the perineum during the second stage of labour.   Peripear describes its product as the world's first automated perineal thermotherapy wearable, designed [...]

The Women's Health Innovation Summit (WHIS) has reminded startups that applications for its 2026  Innovation Showcase close on Tuesday, August 18. The Showcase gives early and growth-stage companies the  opportunity to pitch live on stage to the most influential audience in women's health, at a summit that convenes more than 1,000 senior decision-makers from across [...]

Women's Health Week Europe 2026 has released its fully populated speaker and session lineup ahead of the event's return to The Emirates Stadium in London on 7–8 October, with 80+ speakers now confirmed across two dedicated stages. The programme The agenda runs across two dedicated stages in parallel, plus two pitch competitions across both days. [...]

UK femtech investment has risen by more than 194 per cent over the past decade, with deal activity and funding both increasing, new research has found. The number of deals increased from 18 in 2015 to 53 in 2025, while total funding rose from £9.4m to more than £100m over the same period. Despite the [...]