How women's-health startups could benefit from digital health's wave of consolidations
Insider spoke with four key players in women's health about how a new era of digital-health consolidation would affect the space.
Patricia Kelly Yeo
Healthcare Fellow
The CEO of Kindbody shares how the $612 million fertility startup branched out beyond direct-to-consumer to work with major employers
Here's how Kindbody, the "SoulCycle" of fertility clinics, has grown from its early direct-to-consumer days.
The US spends at least $225 billion on mental illness each year in a broken system with no clear-cut solutions
Inequity in mental health costs goes beyond loss of productivity in the workplace, contributing to homelessness, poverty, and unemployment.
From birth-control delivery to online pregnancy care, here are the 9 highest-funded women's-health startups
With the exits of Modern Fertility, Progyny, and Hims & Hers, here are the top nine highest-venture-funded women's-health startups as of mid-2021.
Despite limitations, digital health apps are still helping to chip away at the mental health crisis
By combining basic mental health services with digital technology, startups are paving the way for a prevention focused future in healthcare.
We read all 323 pages of 23andMe's SPAC filing. Here are the 5 biggest obstacles it faces after its public debut.
23andMe started trading on Thursday. Insider analyzed the 323-page regulatory filing made public as part of 23andMe's stock-market debut.
How companies like 23andMe and Helix are forging the future of consumer genomics despite a bottomed out market
Genetic tests were once a popular trend. Now, companies like Color have set their sights on less buzzy business models.
How DNA-testing startup Helix became one of the nation's leading coronavirus tracking labs
Inside Helix, the genomics company that helped the CDC track the Alpha variant's spread within the US, and where it plans to go from here.
The fast-growing but shorthanded home-care industry is so desperate for workers it's offering company cars to staff and handing out gas cards
Employers in the fragmented home-care industry are trying almost anything to hire and retain workers in a tight labor market.
Shares of primary care company One Medical have fallen 22%, but analysts think it's posed for a rebound
One Medical's stock dropped after earnings, but an analyst laid out why it's still got potential in the crowded primary care market.
An unprecedented shortage of staff has hit home-care agencies hard —with job applicants ghosting employers for bigger unemployment checks
Home-care employers are struggling to find new staff as prospective applicants look elsewhere for income. Some point to bigger unemployment checks.
Inside the booming home-care industry, where wages are low, turnover high, and Wall Street investors are trickling in
In an industry where no one agency owns more than 6% of market share, franchisees and their near-minimum-wage workers care for the US' elderly.
Morgan Stanley lays out how Amazon could reshape the way companies provide healthcare
A new Morgan Stanley analyst note predicts that the tech giant's employee clinics and generic drug platform could make it a formidable competitor.
The doctor behind 'The Vagina Bible' wrote a new book on menopause, and she says she's skeptical of the startups targeting middle-aged women
In advance of her new book "The Menopause Manifesto," Dr. Jen Gunter spoke to Insider on the most overlooked aspect of women's health.
A Cityblock alum raised $10 million for her app taking a preventive, group therapy approach to mental health
After dropping out of a clinical psychology master's, Ariela Safira founded Real, a consumer mental health app with a preventive approach to illness.
Moderna's mRNA technology could help in the decades-long search for an HIV vaccine
"We had such a spectacular outcome with coronavirus that we absolutely need to embark on this platform and test it," a veteran HIV researcher said.
Biden's infrastructure plan earmarks $400 billion in home-based care for aging Americans — and it could shake up the lucrative home care industry
Biden's jobs plan takes a pro-union stance on the lucrative home healthcare industry and spotlights the US's elderly population and its caregivers.
$50 billion Tiger Global has been on a digital-health funding spree. Here are 15 startups it's backed in the last 5 months.
Tiger Global has gone all in on healthcare, participating in $2.2 billion worth of funding rounds since last fall. Here are the startups it's backed.
Despite 23andMe's declining revenue, CEO Anne Wojcicki said she's committed to consumer-first healthcare 'entirely outside the system'
23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki said its consumer-focused philosophy hasn't wavered since day one. 23andMe is set to go public via SPAC later this year.
A new wave of digital weight loss companies are raking in millions in funding by relying on decades-old psychology principles, experts say
Apps like Noom want to get users to lose weight through their digital health platforms, but experts say they're taking the same diet culture approach.