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Don't miss the HITLAB virtual panel next week featuring our partner Alice Zheng! Sign up here ?? https://lnkd.in/deMWfyX4 Ft: Subrata Bose PhD, MBA, MSc, BPharma (Bayer), Walter "Buzz" Stewart (Medcurio), Lernik Essayei (Accenture)

Throwback Thursday! Earlier this month, our Managing Partner,Elizabeth Bailey, spent time in NYC workshopping potential solutions to reimbursement in women's health, along with several of?Foreground’s portfolio companies, Amelia Degenkolb (Novocuff, Inc.), Laine Bruzek (Evvy), Julia A. Cole (Seven Starling) and other entrepreneurs, clinicians, investors and policymakers! ?? Thank you Jodi Neuhauser,?Candace McDonald?and their newly formed Women's Health Collective, for organizing a great event!

A big congratulations to Akash Bakshi, Nadja Mannowetz, and the entire YourChoice Therapeutics team on publishing their early human trial results on their hormone-free birth control pill for men in Nature's Communications Medicine: https://lnkd.in/d9pPBgHf! Check out the full study here:

Congratulations to several of our portfolio company founders for making the Inc. Magazine Female Founders 500 list! ?? ? Cofertility ft: Lauren Makler & Halle Tecco, MPH, MBA ? Cadence OTC ft: Samantha Miller ?? ? Evvy ft: Priyanka Jain & Pita Navarro The list honored dynamic women leaders of private and public companies as well as nonprofits. Check out the full list here: https://lnkd.in/d_2CzDy

Congratulations to several of our portfolio company founders for making the Inc. Magazine Female Founders 500 list! ?? ? Cofertility ft: Lauren Makler & Halle Tecco, MPH, MBA ? Cadence OTC ft: Samantha Miller ?? ? Evvy ft: Priyanka Jain & Pita Navarro The list honored dynamic women leaders of private and public companies as well as nonprofits. Check out the full list here: https://lnkd.in/d_2CzDy

"Later-stage investors, strategic players, and industry leaders must step up" Our co-founder and Managing Partner, Elizabeth Bailey's latest article in STAT discusses the trajectory of the women’s health sector. She highlights the critical need for continued investment, collaboration from industry leaders, and increased support from larger funds at later stages to ensure sustained innovation and growth. "Early-stage investors and entrepreneurs are at a critical juncture in women’s health. We need to partner with investors who can write bigger checks that ensure that these early wins don’t wither and die, and we need to grow our own assets under management to step in to lead those deals as well. Larger capital infusions are essential to propel startups toward commercialization. As the women’s health pipeline matures, the availability of later-stage investment will be critical in defining the sector’s ultimate success and potential." SVB Pivotal Ventures Labcorp Maven Clinic Kindbody Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Women's Health Access Matters Alice Zheng Stasia Obremskey

We're excited to announce that we've been selected to the ImpactAssets 50 2025 as an Emerging Impact Manager! We’re proud to be selected among a diverse group of impact investment fund managers demonstrating the potential to create positive impact:?https://bit.ly/IA502025 Ft: Elizabeth Bailey Alice Zheng Stasia Obremskey #IA50 #IA50EIM

Happy International Women's Day! Today we celebrate the incredible women in our community who are making a difference. From advancing women’s health to empowering future generations, your dedication and passion inspire us every day. We are proud to work alongside you to create a healthier, more inclusive world for women everywhere. ?? ?? Ft: Elizabeth Bailey Alice Zheng Stasia Obremskey Elizabeth Garner Liz Powell Jessica J. Federer Madeleine L. Carolee Lee Lucy Perez Anula Jayasuriya Amelia Degenkolb Jenny Yip Savannah Baum Oriana Papin-Zoghbi Maria D. Toler Sophia Yen, MD, MPH Frederique Dame Anu Sharma Marlena Fejzo

Our co-founder and Managing Partner, Elizabeth Bailey, had the opportunity to speak on the panel "Funding Women's Health" at the MIT Sloan Healthcare and BioInnovations Conference (SHBC) alongside Sandhya Rao (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Neel Shah (Maven Clinic)! Great conversation led by Megan Greenfield, Ph.D. ?? The women’s health sector is on the verge of a pivotal transformation and we are so proud to be part of it! Flora Wu Priya Bhirgoo Alice Zheng Stasia Obremskey

We are proud to see the Eunice Kennedy Shriver?National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) shine a spotlight on our portfolio company Raydiant Oximetry, Inc. ! "Raydiant Oximetry is?revolutionizing labor & delivery. In developing Lumerah?, a noninvasive sensor technology that directly measures fetal oxygen levels, Raydiant Oximetry aims to profoundly reduce the rising mortality and morbidity rates among mothers and babies during childbirth. For the past 50 years, electronic fetal monitoring has been associated with a 6-fold increase in cesarean delivery in the US without any evidence that it reduces the rate of neonatal neurologic injury, stillbirth or cerebral palsy. Obstetrical providers need a more reliable tool to evaluate fetal oxygenation." Keep up the great work Neil Ray and team!