| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.10.2025 | Every Health raises €1.1M to build Europe’s first LGBTQ+ virtual clinic | Every Health, Europe's first virtual clinic dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has closed a €1.1 million Seed round.
The platform offers digital care pathways, including testing, consultations, prescriptions, and medication delivery, serving q... |
| 17.10.2025 | Sugar Free Capital: $32 Million Inaugural Fund Launched | Sugar Free Capital has officially launched its first fund, a $32 million debut vehicle focused on investing in deeply technical founders, often alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who are building the next generation ... |
| 07.10.2025 | Sugar Free Capital: $32 Million Fund Launched To Focus On Technical Founders | Sugar Free Capital has announced the launch of its inaugural fund, which totals $32 million. This fund is designed to invest in technical founders, particularly those often associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Th... |
| 05.09.2025 | M&A: Remedy Meds Acquires Thirty Madison in All-Stock Deal Valued at over $500M | What You Should Know:
– Remedy Meds, LLC, a consumer virtual-care and pharmacy platform, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Thirty Madison, Inc. (“Thirty Madison”).
– The transaction creates a larger, mult... |
| 08.07.2025 | WeightWatchers Emerges from Bankruptcy, Launches New Menopause Program | What You Should Know:
– WeightWatchers today announced the successful completion of its strategic reorganization process.
– The reorganization positions the Company with significantly enhanced financial flexibility and is accelerating its t... |
| 31.01.2025 | Health | Telehealth companies boost ad spending while taking on more complex medicine | The companies’ advertising typically emphasizes convenience in a health care system that’s often just the opposite. They promise judgment-free birth control or care for conditions like erectile dysfunction and hair loss that have traditiona... |
| 10.01.2025 | Qualified Health: $30 Million (Seed) Raised For Developing GenAI Infrastructure In Healthcare | Qualified Health announced its launch with $30 million in seed funding to develop the infrastructure for generative AI in healthcare. The major investors are SignalFire, Healthier Capital, Town Hall Ventures, and Frist Cressey Ventures, wit... |
| 25.07.2024 | Nurx Survey Reveals More than Half of Women Feel Anxious About Reproductive Access, Freedoms | Findings show women are facing longer wait times for essential care, have considered changes to where they live or work due to the current political climate regarding reproductive health
NEW YORK, July 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Nurx, the hea... |
| 25.04.2024 | Thirty Madison's Nurx and Cove partner with Talkspace to expand mental health support for more than half a million women | The leading specialty telemedicine company teams up with leading behavioral health company to broaden access to mental health treatment and therapy for women
NEW YORK , April 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Thirty Madison, the specialty telemedici... |
| 12.10.2023 | Digital health tech is about making healthcare more humane | Telehealth and online pharmacies, generative AI for patient records, and supportive games
Whether it’s skipping the line at your pharmacy, getting 24/7 access to virtual support, recapping what the doctor said during a visit, or scoring gam... |
| 13.05.2022 | How to Tell Whether It’s Time to Expand Your Business | You started your company with a bankable idea, a tiny space, and an even smaller group of employees. Like many entrepreneurial beginnings, maybe it was just you and one other person in a home office or garage. But lately, that smaller space... |
| 07.09.2021 | America’s provider shortage: Can digital health resuscitate our broken care delivery system? | America’s Provider Shortage: Can Digital Health Resuscitate Our Broken Care Delivery System?
Have you ever wondered why it takes so long to schedule an appointment with your primary care provider? Or why wait times for specialists — from OB... |
| 18.08.2021 | Nurx Supports Female Athletes in Accessing Birth Control and Essential Healthcare Quickly and Conveniently | The ability to quickly and conveniently access birth control and other essential medications, tests and care supports people striving for their personal best, whether they are top athletes or women accomplishing feats that don’t make headli... |
| 20.07.2021 | Nurx Launches Urgent Care, Starting with Overnight Delivery of Emergency Contraception | ...Our patients who trust Nurx with their ongoing medical needs are also seeking urgent solutions and Nurx Now will provide that, first in emergency contraception with other urgent care options to follow.
SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) July 20, 2021... |
| 01.06.2021 | Nurx Expands At-Home Dermatology Services with New Rosacea Treatment | Dermatology has been out of reach for many, due to the shortage of dermatologists or prohibitive prices, and Nurx has the power to unlock access to care for common skin conditions, including rosacea, and by soon expanding our acne treatment... |
| 26.04.2021 | Nurx Delivers PCR-Quality Rapid Home Test for COVID-19 | ...As the pandemic enters this next phase we are excited to offer the Lucira Check It COVID-19 Test Kit to give people another option for detecting COVID-19 infection, so they can keep themselves and others safe.
SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) April... |
| 15.03.2021 | Nurx Launches Personalized At-Home Acne Treatment to Address Patient Need | ...As the hormone experts, our medical team is thrilled to be able to break down barriers to acne treatment and help people live happier in their skin. This is a natural extension of what we’ve always done at Nurx.
SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) Mar... |
| 01.03.2021 | Nurx Announces New Chief Medical Officer as It Continues Expansion into New Categories of Care | ...As I bring my experience to leading the highly credentialed and mission-driven Nurx medical team, I am incredibly optimistic about using telehealth to treat more people for more conditions and in turn to measurably improve lives.
SAN FRA... |
| 13.01.2021 | The Work-Life Balance Revolution | Yesterday, I had a gap in the middle of the day. So the Gotham Gal and I took an hour-long walk with our dog Ollie. It cleared my head and when I got back to work, I was full of energy and clarity.
I’ve been working exclusively from home si... |
| 08.01.2021 | Contributed: Virtual-first care is here to stay, but can it fix healthcare? | |
| 06.10.2020 | 6 Startups Dedicated To Improving Women’s Lives | It’s no secret that women are vastly underrepresented in the world of startups. Last year, only 2.8% of all venture capital in the United States went to female-founded companies, marking little improvement from the years prior. As men conti... |
| 10.09.2020 | Mental Healthcare 3.0 Part 2 | Part 2: Four Ideas for 3.0
In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about the transition from 2.0 to 3.0 in mental healthcare technology and why we are paying attention to it. What might it look like to create a scalable, defensible, networked me... |
| 11.08.2020 | Nurx: Reimagining Healthcare | I’ve written a bit about our portfolio company Nurx since we made the investment back in 2016. Nurx is a great example of how technology is helping to reshape how healthcare is delivered.
With the Nurx mobile app, women (and men too) can fi... |
| 11.08.2020 | Nurx Raises $22.5M in Series C Funding | Nurx, a San Francisco, CA-based digital practice for women’s health, raised an additional $22.5m in Series C funding round.
New investors Trustbridge, Comcast Ventures, and Wittington Ventures participated in the round along with existing i... |
| 24.07.2020 | Back to the future: Digital health-led decentralization of healthcare delivery | |
| 08.07.2020 | This startup is connecting girls & women in South Africa to sanitary care and contraceptives | Since the term was coined in 2016, femtech, a sub-sector in health technology dedicated to creating solutions that address female wellbeing continues to gain traction and attract VC funding globally. In Africa, however, the space is still v... |
| 20.03.2020 | Healthcare startups Nurx and Carbon Health ship at-home COVID-19 test sample kits | Efforts to get at-home test kits for the COVID-19 coronavirus are ramping up quickly, and two more health industry startups are bringing their own products to market, with both Carbon Health and Nurx starting to ship their own in-home sampl... |
| 06.03.2020 | Что такое FemTech: полный обзор экосистемы стартапов для женщин | Все говорят про FinTech, EduTech, AgroTech, но на vc.ru не нашлось ни одного упоминания об одном из самых растущих сегментов среди технологических компаний в категории Digital Health — FemTech, или Female Technologies.
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| 12.02.2020 | Analysis: Why Digital Health Investors are Falling in Love with Femtech | Women’s health technology, known as Femtech, is one of the fastest-growing and well-funded categories of digital health. Femtech generally encompasses a range of digital health software and tech-enabled service providers that cater to the s... |
| 23.01.2020 | How Mobile Apps Are Improving Access to Healthcare Services | America boasts the most advanced medical care in the world. Biomedical researchers here represent the vanguard of developing new therapies. Our physicians rank among the best in the world. Hospitals from New England to Southern California f... |
| 11.12.2019 | Butter | I once asked a famous celebrity chef how he made his pasta taste so good.
He answered “Butter. Lots of it.”
When we land in Paris, jet lagged and cranky, we head right to our favorite street cafe and order strong coffee, baguettes and butte... |
| 29.09.2019 | Badass millennial women are supercharging startup investments | Patricia Nakache Contributor
Patricia Nakache is a general partner at Trinity Ventures.
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| 15.08.2019 | Nurx Secures $52 Million to Expand Access to Sensitive Health Needs | - |
| 15.08.2019 | Birth control delivery startup Nurx approaches $300M valuation | Nurx, citing 200,000 current patients and a monthly growth rate as high as 20%, has raised $32 million in Series C equity funding in a round co-led by existing investors Kleiner Perkins and Union Square Ventures. The company has also secure... |
| 15.08.2019 | Nurx Raises $52M in Series C Funding | Nurx, a San Francisco, CA-based healthtech company providing care for sensitive needs, raised an additional $52m in Series C funding.
The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Digital Growth Fund and Union Square Ventures with participation from... |
| 15.08.2019 | Daily funding roundup - August 15th, 2019 | Miko raised $7.5M; Commsignia closed $11M; FlyHomes landed $21M; Nurx secured $32M
Fitz Frames: Fitz Frames is solving glasses for kids and parents because those who can see the world are the ones who will change it. Fitz Frames has raised ... |
| 11.07.2019 | A Doctor For Sensitive Issues | Our portfolio company Nurx started out offering birth control prescriptions on a mobile phone delivered to you in the mail. This has been a game changer for many women who live far from a doctor or a pharmacy or live in places where it is n... |
| 10.07.2019 | Birth control delivery startup Nurx introduces STI home-testing kits | Nurx, the “Uber for birth control,” will allow customers to test themselves for many of the most common sexually transmitted infections within the comforts of their own homes with its new STI home-testing kits.
Nurx, a graduate of Y Combina... |
| 17.04.2019 | Healthcare At USV | Over the last five years, we have stepped up our investing in and around healthcare. About 15-20% of the early stage companies we have invested in over our last two fund cycles are working in this sector.
If you look at our current investme... |
| 16.04.2019 | Birth control delivery startup Nurx taps Clover Health’s Varsha Rao as CEO | Varsha Rao, Airbnb’s former head of global operations and, most recently, the chief operating officer at Clover Health, has joined Nurx as its chief executive officer.
Rao replaces Hans Gangeskar, Nurx’s co-founder and CEO since 2014, who w... |
| 04.12.2018 | Birth control delivery startup Nurx now offers an at-home HPV testing kit | Telemedicine startup Nurx — once dubbed the “Uber for birth control” — has launched a direct-to-consumer Human papillomavirus (HPV) testing kit. The addition means its customers can in the comfort of their own homes test for the most common... |
| 23.10.2018 | Business Model Innovation in Healthcare | Naomi posted some thoughts on changing business models in health care on the USV blog yesterday.
The one that I am personally most excited about is what Naomi calls “change of venue” and within that I like the “virtual primary care” model.
... |
| 22.10.2018 | Business Model Innovation in Healthcare | Recent conversations around healthcare have surfaced words like “crisis” and “collapse”. Besides being confused by the existing system, 20% of Americans can no longer afford basic healthcare (including their insurance premiums), leading to ... |
| 17.10.2018 | Q&A with Hans Gangeskar and Dr. Edvard Engesaeth, Cofounders of Nurx | We put together a list of the top YC companies by valuation as of October 2018. You can see that list at https://ycombinator.com/topcompanies.
Here’s a Q&A with Hans Gangeskar (CEO and co-founder) and Dr. Edvard Engesaeth (co-founder) ... |
| 29.09.2018 | Audio Of The Week: The Changing Nature Of Women's Healthcare | One of the themes we are deeply bought into at USV in our approach to healthcare investing is the opportunity in women’s health care, particularly providing care to young and healthy women. Our portfolio companies Nurx, Clue, and Modern Fer... |
| 11.09.2018 | Unbundling Healthcare | USV has been investing in health-related technologies for about five years. Our approach can be characterized by the notion that digital processes, made more accessible by the internet and mobile access, could over time transform the cost a... |
| 19.08.2018 | Nurx Raises $36M and Adds Chelsea Clinton to its Board of Directors | - |
| 01.04.2018 | USV Thesis 3.0 | The commitment to a thesis is part of the fiber of USV–a shared set of ideas creates a framework that allows us to operate with focus and work on what matters most to our team. But what that thesis is has evolved over time and will continue... |
| 08.03.2018 | Frost & Sullivan: Femtech could become a $50 billion market by 2025 | 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!
2017 was a breakthrough year for women around the... |
| 08.03.2018 | Frost & Sullivan: Femtech could become a $50 billion market by 2025 | 2017 was a breakthrough year for women around the world, fueled by movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp, the Women’s March, and Wonder Woman‘s blockbuster success. In tech, a sector known as femtech (female technology) has been on the rise, s... |
| 26.11.2017 | Predicting success in startup consumer brands | Matt Heiman Contributor
Matt Heiman is a partner at CRV.
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| 11.11.2017 | Video Of The Week: Nurx | Our portfolio company Nurx provides prescriptions via an app on your mobile phone.
The initial offerings are birth control and HIV prevention medications, but they will add other prescriptions in the future.
This news report talks about the... |
| 05.06.2017 | Birth control app Nurx now delivers to the ‘contraceptive deserts’ of Texas | About half the counties in Texas don’t have the number of public clinics required to meet the contraceptive needs of the population. So Nurx, an at-home birth control delivery app, decided to give women in the state the option to get birth ... |
| 19.05.2017 | What would it mean if Amazon expanded into pharma | The effect it would have on Amazon, pharmaceuticals and other companies in the space
Some of the biggest tech companies have been staking their claims in the healthcare space in the last few years. Companies like Google and Apple have been ... |
| - | TikTokers are touting beef tallow treatments for clearer skin, but ‘you don’t know what you’re getting,’ dermatologist warns | Most people are willing to try just about anything for better skin, and that includes the newest unconventional skin care trend that is taking over TikTok.
Users on the app are using beef tallow as a moisturizer for clearer skin and sharing... |
| - | America’s provider shortage: Can digital health resuscitate our broken care delivery system? | America’s Provider Shortage: Can Digital Health Resuscitate Our Broken Care Delivery System?
Have you ever wondered why it takes so long to schedule an appointment with your primary care provider? Or why wait times for specialists — from OB... |
