Natural Cycles is a natural fertility tracking app and the first and only digital contraception app to receive regulatory approval (certified in Europe and FDA-cleared in the US). It’s disrupting big pharma birth control by replacing “the pill” and has raised $38.5M in venture capital so far.
Healthcare and Wellness
Tonal: Your Entire Gym On The Wall
Ditch the old dumbbells at gym and embrace intelligent workout system at home.
Fitbit Care: Making Health a Platform
When a consumer electronics company needed to pivot, it turned into a platform healthcare company.
ClassPass: doomed to be the next Blockbuster?
When the disruptor becomes the disruptee: with the rapid rise of at-home streaming services like Peloton, will ClassPass be able to pivot and survive or will it go the route of Blockbuster post-Netflix?
Glow: Where Data Meets Baby-Making
You use your phone to hail rides, to order food, to fact-check the outlandish claims your friends make during dinner conversations… can your phone also help you get pregnant?
Sephora: Staying Ahead of the Amazon Threat
Sephora should consider monetizing its personalization features, powered by consumer data on beauty preferences, to maintain its competitive edge.
Flatiron Health – solving cancer through data analytics
Flatiron Health is using data and analytics to tackle cancer, which it believes cannot be “solved” by just the healthcare community – it needs the technology industry as well. Therefore, since Flatiron started in 2012, it has grown to nearly […]
MedAware – Using AI to eliminate prescription errors
MedAware’s machine-learning algorithms mine data gathered from millions of electronic medical records to detect outliers in prescription behavior and flag them in real-time to healthcare providers
Vitality: A data-driven approach to better health
If you were rewarded to engage in healthy behaviors, would you take better care of yourself? Vitality, founded in South Africa, is the world’s first health insurer to use behavioral economics and data analytics to incentivize customers to live healthier. […]
DeepMind : between fine-tuning and disruption in the Healthcare industry
Imagine a world where doctors and nurses can have tasks taken off their day-to-day through data analytics and automation. A scenario where scans, tests results, follow-ups and notes are not only automatized but also given something the healthcare world desperately lacks today: structure.