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| 31.07.2024 | Flo Health reaches unicorn status after $200M raise | Photo: Tim Robberts/Getty Images
Period-tracking app Flo Health garnered more than $200 million in Series C funding from growth investor General Atlantic, bringing the women's health company to unicorn status, with more than $1 billion in v... |
| 20.06.2022 | Roe v. Wade leak heightens data privacy concerns | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The panic ignited by the leaked draft opinion fro... |
| 13.01.2021 | INTERVIEW: Max Levchin couldn't get a car loan, so he founded Affirm. The buy now, pay later fintech raised $1.2 billion in its public markets debut. | Affirm This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Minutes before Affirm's long-awaited IPO raised $1.2 billion for the company, CEO Max Levchin met with Insider to talk ab... |
| 28.02.2019 | It’s a new era for fertility tech | Women’s health has long been devoid of technological innovation, but when it comes to fertility options, that’s starting to change. Startups in the space are securing hundreds of millions in venture capital investment, a significant increas... |
| 11.08.2017 | Flo raises $5 million for its AI-powered period-tracking app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Flo, an app that tracks women’s health from periods to pregnancy, announced today funding of $5 million. The round was led by returning... |
| 11.08.2017 | Flo raises $5 million for its AI-powered period-tracking app | Flo, an app that tracks women’s health from periods to pregnancy, announced today funding of $5 million. The round was led by returning investor Flint Capital, with participation from model and activist Natalia Vodianova and other angel inv... |
| 09.02.2017 | Natural Cycles is first contraceptive app to get EU approval | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Natural Cycles, which until yesterday was marketed as a fertility tracking app, has announced today that it is the first app to be cert... |
| 05.02.2017 | The rise of femtech: women, technology, and Trump | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The market is flooded with products tailored to the needs of men: viagra, penis enlargement pills, fitness apps, and more. But a new se... |
| 05.02.2017 | The rise of femtech: women, technology, and Trump | The market is flooded with products tailored to the needs of men: viagra, penis enlargement pills, fitness apps, and more. But a new sector dedicated to women is emerging. Femtech, or female technology, is tickling the curiosity of hungry v... |
| 15.12.2016 | Flo raises $1M led by Flint Capital for its AI-driven period calculator | The Flo app — the period calculator for women that tracks and predicts menstrual cycles, ovulation, and fertile days — has raised $1 million in seed round funding led by Flint Capital along with the Haxus Venture Fund co-founded by Yuri Gur... |
| 15.08.2016 | With $4M fundraise Bloomlife will seek FDA clearance for pregnancy monitoring device | Dy said the company would use the new funding to support the launch of its product — a clinically validated wearable sensor to automatically track and count contractions safely from home. It is geared to expectant mothers in their third tri... |
| 30.07.2016 | Serious privacy flaws discovered in Glow fertility tracker app | There are scores of startups making fertility tracker and family planning apps today, but a Consumer Reports investigation has singled out Glow Inc. for serious security and privacy flaws.
First, Consumer Reports’ team was able to access ve... |
| 30.03.2016 | 5 Startups Changing the Way Women Think About Their Periods | Feminine care may be a $15 billion industry, but it hasn’t changed all that much in the last few decades. Take the modern tampon, which has been on the market since the mid-1930s. Its biggest innovation: moving from a cardboard to plastic a... |
| 25.02.2016 | Glow launches app to track infant development, unveils monetization strategy | Tye said the company decided to develop Glow Baby because 80 percent of the users for its fertility tracking app Glow who become pregnant go on to use Glow Nurture.
“The more we can help parents understand and manage caring for a new baby, ... |
| 25.02.2016 | Glow launches a baby health tracking app, unveils premium features coming in March | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Three years ago, PayPal cofounder Max Levchin set out to tackle the issue of rising health care costs in the United States. He started ... |
| 25.02.2016 | Glow Debuts A New App For Tracking Baby’s Milestones, Plus Plans For Premium Services | Glow, the company behind a suite of apps for tracking female and male fertility, pregnancy, menstruation, and sexual health, is again expanding its lineup with the launch of an application for new parents: Glow Baby. The app allows its user... |
| 21.11.2015 | Take a memo, Andreessen Horowitz: 4 areas where it should consider investments | Other investments include Benchling, which develops collaborative tools for life science research, Glow, an ovulation tracking app developer, and Omada Health.
It also invested in Massive Health, a company founded in 2010 that helped diabet... |
| 19.08.2015 | More Than Just A Period Tracker, Kindara Raises $5.3M To Understand Women’s Health | Kindara, a startup that helps women track ovulation cycles and fertility, has raised $5.3 million in seed funding to bring big data to women’s health.
Boston Seed Capital led the seed round, with participation from SOS Ventures, Good Works ... |
| 30.07.2015 | Glow launches Ruby, an iOS app to help women better manage their health and sex lives | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Two years ago, PayPal cofounder Max Levchin launched a new company called Glow, whose sole mission was improving healthcare, particular... |
| 30.07.2015 | Glow launches Ruby, an iOS app to help women better manage their health and sex lives | Two years ago, PayPal cofounder Max Levchin launched a new company called Glow, whose sole mission was improving healthcare, particularly in the area of women’s fertility. Having been “extremely happy” with the results of its initial effort... |
| 15.06.2015 | Did Apple Mortally Wound these 13 startups at WWDC? | If there's one thing I know for certain, it's that Apple is fond of fanfare. They love making huge announcements, and they rightly should – it's always a good thing when a company is excited about the new platforms and updates they roll out... |
| 23.04.2015 | Glow confronts male infertility in reproduction app | Glow also added partnerships with infertility clinics Boston IVF and Shady Grove Fertility.
In about 40 percent of infertility cases, men are the sole cause or a contributing cause, according to data from the American Society of Reproductiv... |
| 23.04.2015 | The Glow App Now Tracks Male Fertility | Glow, the app that helps couples track fertility cycles, today released an update that will help couples keep track of men’s reproductive health as well as women.
Male partners can now also have their own experience within the Glow app that... |
| 11.12.2014 | Kinsa Health raises Series A to tap big data potential of smartphone-enabled thermometer | The longterm goal is to set up a way for users to join groups and track illnesses in their neighborhoods, schools and offices.
“We’ve reimagined the world’s most common medical device, the thermometer, and given it the potential to improve ... |
| 22.10.2014 | Kindara Hopes Smart Thermometer for Women is Birth of Something Big | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
For women trying to conceive, getting pregnant might not get easier in the next few months—but tracking their fertility to find the likeliest time to conceive might.
Kindara, ... |
| 07.10.2014 | This Bluetooth-Enabled Temperature Tracker Will Tell You The Optimal Time For Baby-Making | Husband and wife team Anna Mayer and Daniel Graf were both professionals in their early 30’s when they decided they wanted to start a family. However, that proved a lot more difficult than they thought it would be. So mountains of research,... |
| 02.10.2014 | Glow Gets $17 Million In Series B Funding From Formation 8, Founders Fund And Andreessen Horowitz | The app that helps women track their fertility cycles, Glow gained another $17 million from investors today in a Series B round of funding. That makes $23 million in Glow’s total funding. This latest round was led by Formation 8, with addit... |
| 02.10.2014 | Glow raises $17 million for fertility tracking business to line up global expansion | Since PayPal co-founder Max Levchin started the company a little more than one year ago, Glow’s fertility tracker has been used for a little more than 25,000 pregnancies. It has also grown staff numbers from five to 22 since the summer 2013... |
| 02.10.2014 | Funding Daily: Data, music, and pregnancy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today’s funding news includes big data for busine... |
| 02.10.2014 | Glow brings in $17M in new funding, puts big data to work for women's health | When Max Levchin first started telling the world about Glow, one of the companies to come out of his HVF incubator, last summer, it sounded like little more than an app to help women get pregnant. The app let women track their periods and o... |
| 02.10.2014 | Glow brings in $17M in new funding, puts big data to work for women's health | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When Max Levchin first started telling the world ... |
| 02.10.2014 | Glow Raises $17M in Series B Funding | Glow, a San Francisco, CA-based women’s health and fertility company, raised $17m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Formation 8, with participation from Founder’s Fund and Andreessen Horowitz. In conjunction with the funding, Joe Lo... |
| 17.07.2014 | Glow Gives Life To Pregnancy App Glow Nurture | Nearly a year after the launch of Glow, the fertility tracking company that helps or hinders pregnancy, is launching a new app on iOS today. Glow Nurture is the company’s second offering, this time to help women who are already with child. ... |
| 06.03.2014 | Founders Fund has a fresh $1B to spend. Here’s a look at its healthcare picks | As of late, it’s been doing quite a bit in the digital health and genetics space. Here’s a look at the health-focused companies it’s invested in through its angel and venture funds
This list was compiled based on the fund’s website and news... |
| 20.02.2014 | Glow for Enterprise launches as unique employee benefit | Glow signs Evernote and Eventbrite to offer employees Glow First "fertility insurance"
Well here’s some news to warm the cockles of your shriveled black heart. Glow, the new fertility tracking service co-founded by Max Levchin of ... |
| 23.01.2014 | The Glow ‘help you conceive’ app is now also a baby-blocker | Glow, the fertility app from PayPal cofounder Max Levchin, claims it has helped thousands of women conceive since launching in August of 2013.
But the company is no longer just catering to women who are trying to get pregnant. As of today, ... |
| 11.12.2013 | Glow, The Fertility App Founded By Max Levchin, Crosses 1,000 User Pregnancies | When Glow launched its iPhone app for tracking female fertility earlier this year, it garnered attention for its slick design, $6 million Series A funding, and of course well-known founder Max Levchin. But its real success — how many women ... |
| 03.12.2013 | Huawei’s Problems In The U.S. Point To Branding Challenges For Other Chinese Tech Companies | After two years of dealing with espionage accusations, Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei recently told French publication Les Echos that he wants the telecom equipment manufacturer to pull out of the U.S. market. Huawei’s problems stem in large part ... |
| 17.10.2013 | Glow, The Fertility App Founded By Max Levchin, Partners With MyFitnessPal To Add BMI Data To Babymaking | Glow, the fertility tracking app co-founded by Max Levchin, is announcing today that it’s inked a partnership with MyFitnessPal, the popular diet and exercise tracking app.
Starting today, users of Glow and MyFitnessPal will be able to conn... |
| 17.10.2013 | Fertility and Fitness Apps Join Forces in the Name of Science (And Anxiety) | Pregnant and quantified. (Photo: Glowing.com)
“Am I pregnant?” and “What is my BMI?” are two of the most anxiety-inducing questions facing any sexually active woman. That’s why it’s disconcerting that diet-and-workout app MyFitnessPal and f... |
| 10.09.2013 | PayPal cofounder Max Levchin aims to 'move the needle on big challenges' using data | SAN FRANCISCO — Max Levchin is simultaneously helping women conceive, transforming the way people make payments, supporting younger startups, and raising a family.
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, the PayPal cofounder sat down with TechCrunch’s... |
| 10.09.2013 | PayPal cofounder Max Levchin aims to 'move the needle on big challenges' using data | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
SAN FRANCISCO — Max Levchin is simultaneously hel... |
| 10.08.2013 | Glow Raises $6M in Funding | Glow, a San Francisco, CA- and Shanghai, China-based pregnancy data analyzing platform, raised $6m in funding.
Backers included Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz.
Led by executive chairman Max Levchin, founder of PayPal and Slide, Glow ... |
| 08.08.2013 | Max Levchin launches fertility tracker/insurance, Glow | Glow is more than another service looking to profit off misery. It's also an insurance plan.
And now for more Stuff-You-Totally-Didn’t-Expect news: Max Levchin of PayPal and Slide fame has co-founded a fertility app. But that’s not all—it’s... |
| 08.08.2013 | Backed With $6M, Max Levchin’s Glow App For Tracking Female Fertility Debuts On The App Store | Glow, the fertility tracking iOS app co-founded by Max Levchin, is making its debut in the app store today. The app was first introduced earlier this summer by Levchin to a surprised audience at the D11 conference, where the crowd was likel... |
| 08.08.2013 | Glow Shines with $6M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Data science company redesigning healthcare, announced today the launch of its first mobile application and funding.
>> Click here for more funding data on Glow/ Upwards Labs Holdings
>> To export Glow/ Up... |
| 31.07.2013 | How Max Levchin is using ‘big data’ to make a difference | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
SAN FRANCISCO — The goal for Mixpanel‘s first con... |
| 29.05.2013 | How 'big data' can help get you pregnant | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — Awkward onstage dis... |
| 29.05.2013 | How 'big data' can help get you pregnant | RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — Awkward onstage discussions of cervical-mucus consistency aside, Max Levchin’s new pregnancy app is a promising application of “big data” to real-world problems.
Seventeen to 18 percent of women seek medical he... |
| - | Glow raises $17 million for fertility tracking business to line up global expansion | Fertility tracking business Glow raised $17 million in a Series B round to support the global reach of its apps to help women track their fertility and follow the development of their unborn child, according to a company’s statement and blo... |
| - | With $4M fundraise Bloomlife will seek FDA clearance for pregnancy monitoring device | Fertility tracking has been a popular segment of digital health, demonstrated by the likes of startups such as Glow, Trak Fertility and Welltwigs. Fertility apps in general have attracted a new surge of interest with the Zika virus and the ... |
| - | Take a memo, Andreessen Horowitz: 4 areas where it should consider investments | This week, Andreessen Horowitz said it’s launching a fund dedicated to investments in bioinformatics and “beyond the pill” technology. The venture capital firm had already gotten its feet wet with investments in these areas, but a dedicated... |
| - | Kinsa Health raises Series A to tap big data potential of smartphone-enabled thermometer | Kinsa Health has been building up support for a low cost thermometer it developed with a big data component. Its mission to use its device to collect big data to improve population health got some financial validation with the company’s $9.... |
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| - | Founders Fund has a fresh $1B to spend. Here’s a look at its healthcare picks | The rumors were true – kind of: The Founders Fund has been out raising a massive amount of cash for a fifth fund, but it’s not $750 million as originally thought. It’s $1 billion, the fund said today.
Most known for backing Facebook, Spotif... |
| - | Glow launches app to track infant development, unveils monetization strategy | In the increasingly busy field of digital health applications for women’s reproductive health, startups are striving to develop ways to set themselves apart. Glow’s latest app moves beyond fertility tracking and pregnancy to child developme... |
| - | Glow confronts male infertility in reproduction app | Fertility app developer Glow turned its attention to men with a new app section that confronts issues relevant to this audience. But will it lead to more men taking an active role in addressing this sensitive issue?
The smartphone app helps... |
