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Our recent FemTech Forum took place on June 4th 2024

in Farmington, CT

Over 40 startups from around the world have participated in Well4Tech's Cohorts. Previous startups have secured funding, gained visibilty, and received essential support.

Well4Tech is interested in early-stage startups who are innovating the health and wellness space with technology.

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Speakers

FemHealth Insights

Dr. Brittany Barreto

Tia

Felicity Yost

Consensus Healthcare Consultants Inc.

Tiffany Starr McKever

Nathalie Bonafe

Dr Nathalie Bonafé

BEHR Health Systems, Inc.

KwameTerra

Leila Daneshmandi

Encapsulate

Webquity

Kianjai Huggan

Deeplook Medical

Marissa Fayer

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Hyivy Health is a Canadian Medical Device company creating the first remote therapeutic and monitoring device for pelvic floor and gynecology. Hyivy was created after the founder’s recent cervical cancer diagnosis where she wanted to change the 85 year old current standard of care for the 1 in 3 women who experience a pelvic health complication in their lifetime. Hyivy’s patented, class 2 therapeutic system includes a multi therapy and biosensor home use vaginal wand, a patient mobile app and a remote monitoring SaaS platform for the prescribing doctor. The company is current in multiple clinical trials, has raised over $5.5M in funding, has 3 global offices and will be commercializing in early 2025.

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Rachel Bartholomew

Co-Founder & CEO

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Beyond diagnosed conditions like autoimmune disorders, cardiovascular or endocrine issues, and reproductive health diseases, conditions like obesity, anxiety, ADHD, and even severe PMS deeply impact quality of life —yet they are rarely framed as chronic illnesses in need of real support.
We think it’s crazy, literal madness, for a woman to be pushing through life feeling regularly unwell with no clear answers as to why and no one to talk to who understands.
Beyond diagnosed conditions like autoimmune disorders and fibromyalgia, things like obesity, anxiety, ADHD and severe PMS deeply impact quality of life — yet are rarely framed as chronic illnesses needing real support.

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Ashleigh Brown

Co-Founder & CXO

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Erin Nance

Co-Founder & CEO

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Prelude Health is a forward-thinking health-tech company dedicated to revolutionizing women’s healthcare during perimenopause, a critical yet often neglected phase of women’s lives. Recognizing the profound impact hormonal changes can have on quality of life andprevention, Prelude Health has launched its inaugural product, Hormony®, a comprehensive solution designed to empower women through personalized care.

Hormony® offers an innovative approach to managing perimenopause through a blend of advanced technology and insightful, user-focused services. At the heart of Hormony® is a pioneering at-home rapid saliva tests pack, paired with an intuitive AI-driven app. This combination allows women to measure, monitor and manage their hormonal health in real time and in the comfort of their homes. By analyzing hormonal data, the Hormony® app provides personalized insights and actionable advice, enabling women to make informed decisions about their health and lifestyle adjustments to manage their symptoms.

Our Perimenocause®: With Hormony®, our mission is to provoke, normalize, and own the conversation around Perimenopause. We are dedicated to supporting women through this transformative phase with a blend of innovation, expert knowledge, and a community rich in personal shared experiences. Our goal is to empower every woman to navigate perimenopause with confidence, clarity, and a sense of well-being.

As a company, Prelude Health stands at the intersection of technology and wellness, embodying a vision to become the leading platform for women seeking to manage their perimenopause years proactively. By focusing on accessibility, scientific rigor, and empathetic support, Prelude Health is not just improving individual lives but is also paving the way for a healthier, more informed society where women’s midlife health is prioritized and celebrated.

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Mayra Hurtado

Co-Founder & CEO

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Vital Start Health is a University of Pennsylvania startup with a vision of revolutionizing the $500b women’s mental health opportunity starting with a reproductive and maternity mental health platform using Virtual Reality for clinically guided care scaling from pre-conception, pregnancy, postpartum to menopause. Our platform empowers moms & their partners and mental health practitioners to prevent and treat Mood and Anxiety Disorders more effectively, equitably, and faster using Virtual and Augmented Reality Framework that measures and personalizes care at every stage of the wellness journey on-site at a clinic, health system or workplace and continuing at home virtually. Our stellar team is led by passionate founders, Kirthika Parmeswaran, Chief Executive Officer and John Chuo, MD, Chief Scientific Advisor. Kirthika is a Wharton alum, DARPA award winner with 22+ years of expertise across business and technology including Sales, Software R&D and Strategy. John is a Professor at Penn Medicine, and Neonatal Quality Officer at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. We have won numerous awards, raised oversubscribed pre-seed funding, completed initial feasibility studies, launched platform, filed IP, and are currently raising our next round.

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Kirthika Parmeswaran

Founder & CEO

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HeartSnug is the first of its kind- a patented, x-ray safe disposable chest coverage garment designed to provide women privacy both mentally and physically during medical procedures and appointments. Our main mission is accessibility and equity for all women and patients who want more chest coverage. HeartSnug is a female founded, mission driven company who is changing the landscape for patient privacy within women’s healthcare. It is giving women the confidence to go to the doctor, to not be afraid of appointments, take preventative care more seriously, and to help ease anxiety.

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Lauren Orlick

Co-Founder

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Sara Dorband

Co-Founder

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Lisa Humiston

Co-Founder

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Villie, a tech platform, serves as a vital bridge for expecting and new parents, connecting them with essential community support systems. This connection is crucial as numerous studies affirm the profound positive impact of social support on maternal health outcomes. Research indicates that robust social networks not only enhance birth outcomes but also expedite postpartum recovery while significantly diminishing the prevalence of postpartum depression and anxiety.

At the heart of Villie’s mission is the activation of a supportive community network, aptly named “the Village,” which plays a pivotal role in bolstering maternal health and overall wellbeing. By fostering open communication channels and facilitating meaningful exchanges, Villie addresses the pervasive sense of isolation often experienced by expectant and new mothers.

Moreover, Villie’s innovative platform doesn’t stop at communication; it extends to practical assistance and thoughtful gifting. Seamlessly integrating these elements, Villie creates an immersive and celebratory environment where the mom’s community actively participates in supporting the family’s journey into parenthood.

Through Villie, users can easily coordinate assistance with daily tasks, manage gift registries, and receive guidance on how best to support new parents. Whether it’s financial aid, childcare, or meal preparation, Villie streamlines the process, ensuring that support is both practical and heartfelt.

In essence, Villie transcends the conventional boundaries of a tech platform by cultivating a dynamic and compassionate ecosystem that uplifts and empowers expecting and new parents every step of the way.

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Kimberly Jolasun

Founder & CEO

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Luna Leaf is pioneering a new approach to women’s health by focusing on the menstrual cycle. Our goal is simple: to help women better understand their bodies and improve their overall well-being by aligning lifestyle choices with their natural cycles.

Our innovative app goes beyond simply tracking menstrual cycles. It uses this information to offer personalized recommendations on exercise, diet, and stress management that sync with the hormonal changes throughout the cycle. This helps women optimize their energy, stabilize their moods, and boost their health every month.

Luna Leaf is also creating a supportive community where women can access educational materials, share their experiences, and find products specifically designed for different phases of their menstrual cycle, like our phase-specific supplements. These efforts are all part of building a holistic ecosystem that supports women in every aspect of menstrual health.

The idea for Luna Leaf came from our founder, a military spouse whose personal journey of syncing her lifestyle with her menstrual cycle led to profound improvements in her physical and mental health. Her experiences and the resilience she developed as a military spouse have shaped Luna Leaf’s mission.

At Luna Leaf, we believe that understanding and embracing the menstrual cycle can powerfully impact a woman’s health and quality of life. We’re here not just to provide tools, but to be a lifelong companion for women everywhere who want to harness the power of their natural rhythms.

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Peighton Woodard

Founder & CEO

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Welcome to YON E Global, a trailblazer in the FemTech industry dedicated to transforming women’s vaginal health through innovative technology. Founded with a commitment to excellence, our flagship product, a Dutch-designed medical e-health device, tracks overall vaginal health, providing real-time, actionable insights right from the comfort of home.

Our expertise spans over 75 years in healthcare and med-tech, merging innovation with female intuition. Positioned at the forefront of becoming Europe’s largest femcare webshop as a strategic platform for launching our medical device, YON E Global connects women across the continent with top femcare brands from the US, India, Australia, and beyond. We pride ourselves on our powerful partnerships with hospitals, award-winning manufacturers, and pharmaceutical wholesalers, ensuring the highest quality and effectiveness in our offerings.

YON E Global is more than just a company; it’s a movement towards empowering women with knowledge and tools to take charge of their vaginal health independently and confidently. Discover the difference with YON E Global – where we stand for education, empowerment, and excellence in women’s health. Welcome to a new era of FemTech. Welcome to the world of YON E Global!

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Roswitha Verwer

Founder & CEO

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Ricquelle Jeffrey

Chief Strategy Officer

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EmGenisys is a biotechnology / digital health company which has developed patented software solutions to evaluate embryo health in real-time and improve pregnancy outcomes of in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment.

EmGenisys’ flagship product is a Machine Learning (ML) enabled, SaaS solution offering a noninvasive analysis of embryo development and cellular activity in real-time, which reveals critical embryonic characteristics such as embryo health, viability, stress, miscarriage risk, freeze-ability, and sex. To use the system, embryologists simply record 30 second videos of embryos with their smartphone camera. To the human eye, these embryos look like static groups of cells, but the videos can capture hidden cellular activity. Once the videos are uploaded to our web-based platform, our analysis begins. Results are displayed on our web-based platform in less than a minute. Embryologists can use this information to make data-driven embryo management decisions and select the healthiest embryos for transfer into the patient with a high likelihood of surviving to term, saving IVF patients billions of dollars, and adding value to the IVF industry. EmGenisys technology surpasses the industry gold standard for embryo assessment and requires a fraction of the time and cost.

EmGenisys owns all intellectual property for use in both human and animal applications granting the company broad protection on the fastest and only real-time analysis of mammalian embryos in the marketplace.

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Cara Wells, PhD

Founder & CEO

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Grain Fertility, founded by an IVF dad inspired by his family’s fertility experience, is a transformative application that empowers the 1 in 6 individuals who will experience infertility and helps address some of the main burdens that cause nearly 40,000 people to quit treatment before having a baby. This causes fertility clinics and patients to lose tens of millions of dollars every year and patients to abandon their dream of having a child.

Grain Fertility lets patients securely access, organize, and use their fertility information so they are more empowered to make informed decisions about their care. Grain Fertility is not just a digital organization solution but also connects patients to the essential fertility services they use during treatment and provides personalized support, education, and coaching to promote proactive care management. Our mission is to revolutionize the fertility experience by seamlessly integrating patients and their care teams into the broader fertility ecosystem, facilitating improved communication, streamlining information exchange, and equipping both patients and doctors with a more holistic understanding of their fertility journey.

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Joseph Cody

Founder

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At Veera, we believe postpartum mothers deserve a level of care and assistance that has become scarce in the modern age. The Veera mission is to provide mothers with ease and peace of mind during the early stages of motherhood and breastfeeding. We are regrowing a community of postpartum and breastfeeding support by providing mothers with the technology, information, and resources that are best for them and their infants.

Vital Start Health is a University of Pennsylvania startup with a vision of revolutionizing the $500b women’s mental health opportunity starting with a reproductive and maternity mental health platform using Virtual Reality for clinically guided care scaling from pre-conception, pregnancy, postpartum to menopause. Our platform empowers moms & their partners and mental health practitioners to prevent and treat Mood and Anxiety Disorders more effectively, equitably, and faster using Virtual and Augmented Reality Framework that measures and personalizes care at every stage of the wellness journey on-site at a clinic, health system or workplace and continuing at home virtually. Our stellar team is led by passionate founders, Kirthika Parmeswaran, Chief Executive Officer and John Chuo, MD, Chief Scientific Advisor. Kirthika is a Wharton alum, DARPA award winner with 22+ years of expertise across business and technology including Sales, Software R&D and Strategy. John is a Professor at Penn Medicine, and Neonatal Quality Officer at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. We have won numerous awards, raised oversubscribed pre-seed funding, completed initial feasibility studies, launched platform, filed IP, and are currently raising our next round.

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Tina John

Founder & CEO

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Bionirs develops diagnostic tools based on light with the aim of revolutionizing diagnostic methods, offering a new complementary tool to improve early detection of breast cancer. MamoRef has the potential to cover the complementary assessment and classification space of lesions in a simple, efficient, and non-invasive manner, providing metabolic information associated with the type of lesion. It is designed with women’s comfort in mind, as it avoids breast compression, making the diagnostic experience more emotionally bearable. MamoRef is an accessible, portable, and autonomous device, allowing its use in any setting, thus democratizing access to breast health.

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Pamela Pardini

Founder & CEO

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IMMA, a women-led company, allows women to perform their own transvaginal scans by themselves, from anywhere, anytime. The IMMA solution combines a physical ultrasound ultraportable and SW-AI-based image analysis system. IVF is their first vertical, aimed at increasing IVF access and IVF success.

Vital Start Health is a University of Pennsylvania startup with a vision of revolutionizing the $500b women’s mental health opportunity starting with a reproductive and maternity mental health platform using Virtual Reality for clinically guided care scaling from pre-conception, pregnancy, postpartum to menopause. Our platform empowers moms & their partners and mental health practitioners to prevent and treat Mood and Anxiety Disorders more effectively, equitably, and faster using Virtual and Augmented Reality Framework that measures and personalizes care at every stage of the wellness journey on-site at a clinic, health system or workplace and continuing at home virtually. Our stellar team is led by passionate founders, Kirthika Parmeswaran, Chief Executive Officer and John Chuo, MD, Chief Scientific Advisor. Kirthika is a Wharton alum, DARPA award winner with 22+ years of expertise across business and technology including Sales, Software R&D and Strategy. John is a Professor at Penn Medicine, and Neonatal Quality Officer at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. We have won numerous awards, raised oversubscribed pre-seed funding, completed initial feasibility studies, launched platform, filed IP, and are currently raising our next round.

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Beatrice CHEMLA

Co-Founder & CEO

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Dr. Brittany Barreto

CEO

Every day Dr. Barreto dedicates her work to advancing women’s health innovation by equipping key stakeholders with data-driven insights and strategic advice on the femhealth market. She received a doctorate from Baylor College of Medicine in Molecular and Human Genetics where she discovered a small RNA that regulates genomic mutation rate. She founded several businesses including Pheramor, the world’s first DNA-based dating app, and is a US patent holder on predicting personality from DNA. Additionally, she worked in venture capital and launched the Gulf Coast Branch for Capital Factory, the most active venture fund in Texas. Dr. Barreto noticed how underserved the women’s health (femtech) industry was and set out to bring awareness, resources, and capital to it. She hosts the #1 femtech podcast, FemTech Focus, co-founded an early-stage femtech investment firm, Coyote Ventures, and founded FemHealth Insights, a boutique consulting firm with a market research software tool specializing in women’s health innovation.

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Felicity Yost

Co-Founder & President

In her role as President, Felicity is the master executor of Tia’s vision — overseeing our product, marketing, finance and operations organizations. A data enthusiast with a deep passion for health and wellness, Felicity is the chief “systems designer” who enables every part of Tia to work — for our patients, providers and employees. Felicity’s expertise in data-driven decision-making and managing teams that move a mile a minute are a byproduct of her time at Owler & Bridgewater Associates. She’s obsessed with analyzing user behavior and rapid, iterative product development.

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Tiffany Starr McKever

Founder and CEO

Tiffany S McKever is currently the Founder of Consensus Healthcare Consultants Inc. which provides strategic advisory and innovations in the healthcare industry. As an entrepreneur focusing on population health, equity and women’s health Tiffany’s innovation has been acknowledged by HIMSS with an appointment as one of the Future Top 50 Class of 2021-2022 Innovators in the Patient Leader category and Top 200 FemTech Personalities globally. Prior to founding CHC, Inc. Tiffany gained extensive expertise in strategy and technical operation with experience over 20 years in Big Pharma. Tiffany earned her Global MBA at Fairleigh Dickinson’s Silberman College of Business and an Master of Science at the highly competitive and globally recognized Rutgers Business School- Supply Chain Division: Healthcare Service Deliver Management graduate program. Tiffany currently serves as Strategic Advisor to a number of startups to further strengthen her focus and impact in Women’s Health and participates as a visiting presenter and board member at universities across the region to support emerging innovators. Tiffany is passionate about startups in Israel and serves as President -Philadelphia Israel Chamber of Commerce supporting collaboration between regional US partners and Israeli companies.

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Dr Nathalie Bonafé

Founder and CEO

Dr Bonafé earned her MS and PhD in “Biology and Health” from Montpellier University School of Medicine, in the South of France. She spent the first part of her career in biomedical research that included a postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health, and several research positions at the Yale University Medical School and in the biotech industry. Today Nathalie supports women during difficult transitions that happen around midlife and in the second half of life. Her support is holistic, science-based, but non-medical. We are talking not only about support during the Menopause years which are crucial years for aging well and empowered, but also support during intense losses or periods of grief, including during a serious illness like a cancer treatment, or when a person or a loved one is dying. Sometimes, these transitions happen concomitantly, and people need a professional who can accompany them safely through it, without judgement or an agenda. That’s the role of a Doula. In a style that is soft but strong, Nathalie offers customized, evidence-based education, coaching, and holistic support, always advocating for personal choices and autonomy, while exploring meaning, courage and joy.

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KwameTerra

Founder & CEO

Kwame is the founder and CEO of bEHR Systems, Inc., a community-based, patient-centered care platform that utilizes a comprehensive health scoring algorithm to educate and provide personalized health solutions to the Black community. Kwame is an alumnus of Xavier University of Louisiana, where he studied Biology and Public Health with a concentration in Health Equity.

His mission at bEHR is to maximize health in the Black community, using health equity best practices and the latest innovations in human longevity. His ultimate vision is to integrate health into Black culture— placing health at the core of how we live, learn, work, play and celebrate in the Black community. In addition to his work at bEHR, Kwame serves as the adjunct director of the Kirchner Food Fellowship. This program is training and empowering a diverse next generation of investors to allocate equity investments into early-stage companies addressing food insecurity in the US and abroad. He participated as a fellow in 2021 where he and his team looked to invest in an early stage company improving nutritional health in predominantly Black communities.

Kwame’s life’s mission revolves around founding and supporting enterprises dedicated to alleviating global suffering by dismantling obstacles to fundamental human needs. He firmly upholds the moral duty of every individual to pursue the highest ideals for society and assume responsibility for manifesting them within our lives and communities.

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Leila Daneshmandi

Founder & COO

Leila Daneshmandi, Ph.D., is the co-founder and COO of Encapsulate Inc, a MedTech startup in cancer precision diagnostics. She holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and a Master’s in Global Entrepreneurship from the University of Connecticut. Leila is a TEDx speaker, twice honored as a CT Women of Innovation Finalist, recognized as one of the Top 25 Women in Business by the Hartford Business Journal, and serves as a board member at the Connecticut Invention Convention. She was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Scalable Venture in 2020. Encapsulate develops automated tumor-on-a-chip systems that screen the clinical response profile of cancer patients to chemotherapy drugs to determine effective personalized treatment regimens. The company has raised over $1.8 million in funding and was featured in Hartford Business Journal’s annual Tech 25 issue of startups to watch. Encapsulate has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Technology-in-Space Prize from The International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory and Boeing for $653k, an NSF SBIR phase I, and first place in the Deeptech category at ICT Spring’s Mastermind Summit and Competition hosted by the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise Europe Network.

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Kianjai Huggan

Founder & CEO

Kianjai (Kia) Huggan, an engineer and educator, embarked on an inspiring journey amid the COVID-19 pandemic’s sudden shift to online education. As an educator herself, Kia was deeply moved by the accessibility gaps that emerged, prompting her to dedicate tireless hours to meet her students’ needs This personal commitment arose from her own experiences grappling with double vision and online content consumption during her graduate studies. Leveraging her engineering background, Kia envisioned a solution – the birth of Webquity. Rooted in the belief that accessibility and inclusion are fundamental – Webquity aimed to automate and integrate accessibility tools across the digital landscape. Kia’s story stands as a testament to innovation fueled by empathy, with her academic achievements from Harvard University and the University of Connecticut underscoring her dedication.

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Marissa Fayer

CEO

Marissa Fayer is a 20+ medtech executive, innovator, entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. She is the CEO and founder of non-profit HERhealthEQ, CEO of DeepLook Medical, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Graybella Capital, and Co-Chair of the US AI for Good Innovation Factory. Her mission is to move innovation and the health of women forward throughout the world.

Marissa is a TEDx Speaker (2019 at TEDxLugano), a UCSC Miller Center Social Entrepreneur Fellow, and has been listed as one of the Top 100 Women in Medtech, a 2024 MedTech Voice to Watch, a First in FemTech award winner in 2022, awarded the Africa Development Award, a Wonder Women in Medtech, and has delivered keynote discussions at some of the leading global healthcare conferences around the world.

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Sigalit Mutzafi

Co-Founder & CEO

Mrs. Sigalit Mutzafi is the CEO & co-founder of RadGreen, She is a seasoned product manager with vast experience in bringing digital products to serve customer needs and in enterprise sales.


Sigalit is a mother, a city climate evangelist, who loves hiking and a bar of dark chocolate.

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