{"id":159752,"date":"2023-03-07T17:24:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T23:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/meet-the-woman-who-invented-a-whole-new-subsection-of-tech-set-to-be-worth-1-trillion"},"modified":"2023-03-07T17:24:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T23:24:19","slug":"meet-the-woman-who-invented-a-whole-new-subsection-of-tech-set-to-be-worth-1-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/meet-the-woman-who-invented-a-whole-new-subsection-of-tech-set-to-be-worth-1-trillion","title":{"rendered":"Meet the woman who invented a whole new subsection of tech set to be worth $1 trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-the-woman-who-invented-a-whole-new-subsection-of-tech-set-to-be-worth-1-trillion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The term now covers all types of technology and innovation designed to address health issues that solely, or disproportionately, impact women\u2019s health, from menstrual cycle tracking apps and sexual wellness products to cardiovascular medical devices and mental health therapies.<\/p>\n<p>Giving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/03\/21\/investors-see-growth-opportunity-in-femtech-devoted-to-womens-health-.html\">FemTech its own name<\/a> helped the community of people working in the sector to find each other, but also gave investors reassurance about where they were putting their money, Tin<strong> <\/strong>said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a little easier to say you\u2019re invested in FemTech than, you know, a company that helps women not pee their pants \u2026 It kind of bridged the gap over to men as well, which was important, still is important, because so many investors are men.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term now covers all types of technology and innovation designed to address health issues that solely, or disproportionately, impact women\u2019s health, from menstrual cycle tracking apps and sexual wellness products to cardiovascular medical devices and mental health therapies. Giving FemTech its own name helped the community of people working in the sector to find [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}