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Listen: Startup founders discuss opportunities to increase investment in women's health

Written by Caitlin | Jun 3, 2021 5:00:00 AM

Women control 80 percent of healthcare decisions in the U.S. and spend 29 percent more per capita on healthcare compared to men — yet solutions focused on women’s health received only 3.3 percent of total digital health funding in 2019 and 1.5 percent in the first half of 2020.

In a virtual conversation led by investor and serial entrepreneur Pamela York, co-founder and managing partner of Capita3, three MATTER startup members — Embr Labs CEO Elizabeth Gazda, Marani Health Founder and CEO Ann Holder and Univfy Co-founder and CEO Mylene Yao — discuss unmet needs in women’s health, investment trends and how we can increase investment in women-led startups.

Listen to the full conversation here:

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