FemTech Focus

Amanda Ducach is the Founder and CEO of Social Mama, an app that matchmakes moms for friendship and support. Part of that support includes experts like OBGyns, business coaches, and therapists. With over 20,000 moms already on the platform, Social Mama is ending isolation for mothers everywhere. Community is a key to women's mental and emotional health when they become a mother. Rate, review, and...

Megan Capriccio is a Femtech consultant and Femtech Collective Chapter Director in Sydney, Australia. In this episode, we discuss how women's health and wellness are addressed in the land down under. We had several project ideas during our conversation and Megan initiated one when we finished recording! Follow @FemtechFocus to access the open google sheet that's collecting a list of femtech techno...

Kristina Cahojova is the Founder and CEO of Kegg, the world's first 2-in-1 fertility tracking kegel ball. While strengthening the pelvic floor, Kegg also uses sensors to monitor cervical mucus and notifies the wearer when they are fertile. We speak about the biology of cervical mucus and why it's important for fertility and can be used as a measure of a woman's health. Pre-order kegg now at kegg.t...

Amina Sugimoto is Founder and CEO of Fermata, a Japanese company that promotes femtech in Asia. Fermata is a multifaceted organization that has femtech fund to deploy investments, an in-person store to display femtech products, femtech fest which is a roadshow conference promoting femtech across Japan, and a marketing arm to help femtech products around the world penetrate the Japanese market. Rat...

Dr. Sophia Yen is founder and CEO of Pandia Health, a birth control delivery service. Get prescribed or have an existing prescription filled by this doctor-founded, doctor-led company. We dive into the accessibility & convenience of birth control, the different types of contraceptives on the market and the biology behind each of them. Check out Pandia Health at www.pandiahealth.com Rate, review, a...

Roya Pakza is Founder and CEO of Feminade, an online concierge for women’s hormone and reproductive health based on naturopathic and holistic health. When she realized that the pill was not the 'easy' solution for her, she decided to build a platform and at-home test to truly understand women's hormones. Feminade offers an at-home Dutch Test and online naturopathic clinicians to help women underst...

Crystal Evuleocha is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kliit Health, a sexual and reproductive healthcare platform coming out of Los Angeles. When Crystal immigrated to the US for college as a young woman, she had a lot of questions and only had google for answers. Kliit health empowers young women to have a safe, private, and culturally sensitive place to have all their private questions about sex and re...

Tony Morrison is the Founder and CEO of Motive Bio, a clinical support tool for polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS. PCOS is a major cause of infertility and takes an average of 3 years for a woman to be diagnosed. Tony and I discuss why there’s such a lag time in diagnosis and how Motive Bio can empower women to go into their physician's office prepared with data to help get diagnosed faster. Rate...

Rachel Braun Scherl is an entrepreneur, speaker, and author. She successfully built and grew Semprae Laboratories, a venture-backed women sexual wellness company. Semprae Laboratories developed topical products to help heighten women's feelings of desire and arousal. She published her book in 2018 titled “Orgasmic Leadership: profiting from the coming surge in female health and wellness”. This was...

Joe Connolly is the Founder and CEO of Visana Health, Visana Health is a startup out of Minneapolis that empowers the 15 million women with severe menstrual pain to take control of their health. The digital care program teaches clinically proven self pain-management habits and provides a list of vetted physicians who listen to patient's concerns about menstrual pain. In this episode, we talk about...

Dr. Lyndsey Harper is an OBGyn that felt the lack of treatment for female sexual dysfunction was unacceptable. She is now the founder and CEO of Rosy, a sexual wellness app for women. Rosy had over 20K downloads in one year and successfully closed a round of funding. Drs. Harper and Barreto explore differences in male and female sexual empowerment, media blocking femtech ads, and how decreasing se...

Femtech Focus co-founder, Dr. Julie Hakim, sits down with me to discuss her love for Femtech. Julie is a pediatric gynecologist and inventor of the vaginal stent. Thanks for listening! Please rate and review!

Welcome to the Femtech Focus podcast! This is our first episode where our host Dr. Brittany Barreto tells us about what femtech is and why it's important. She gives examples of femtech companies by highlighting over a dozen of her favorites. Future episodes will include interviews with experts. Enjoy this introductory episode!

This is just a quick intro into what we are, and what we are about. Thanks for listening.