We explored venture capitalists’ latest bets on fertility and contraception tech, including Modern Fertility, Extend Fertility, Natural Cycles, Nurx, Clue and more.
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23andme
Afton Vechery
Birth Control
boxgroup
Carrot
Clue
Deborah Anderson-Bialis
eqt ventures
femtech
fertilityIQ
First Round Capital
Glow
Health
Ida Tin
instagram
Kleiner Perkins
LinkedIn
Lowercase Capital
maveron
Max Levchin
Mike Huang
Modern Fertility
Mosaic Ventures
Natural Cycles
nea
Nurx
partner
Rebecca Kaden
San Francisco
sequoia capital
Softbank
sound ventures
stockholm
Telemedicine
Venture Capital
Vision Fund
Womens Health
Y Combinator
Is there such a thing as bad publicity? It’s an interesting and contested question. To wit: Self styled ‘digital contraception’ app, Natural Cycles — which relies on a set of proprietary algorithms and women inputting their morning body temperature to predict fertility levels each day — has claimed that negative headlines generated after a clinic reported a number…
Swedish startup Natural Cycles, which offers an app-based product which it bills as a ‘digital contraceptive’, has been reported to Sweden’s Medical Products Agency (MPA) by a local hospital after it recorded 37 unwanted pregnancies among women who said they had been using the app as their contraception method.
European startup Natural Cycles is pushing to establish its EU-certified “digital contraceptive app” as a globally accepted contraception option — and compete with tried and tested options used by millions of couples worldwide.