Fresh news, dude - women have bodies! And, get this, they're different from men's. I know, shocker. LIGA.net writes about this "revolution" called femtech. Diagnostics from menstrual blood, cancer tests without radiation... Sounds like sci-fi from the future, but in reality, it's just the basic level of self-care that should have appeared 50 years ago. What the hell took so long?
230 Million Reasons to Shut Up and Listen
They're proud in the article that the Flo app has been downloaded 230 million times. Just think about that number. 230 million! It's not because "oh, how cool, a pink calendar." It's because 230 million women, damn it, are tired of hearing from doctors "it's normal," "drink some chamomile," and "you just need to be less stressed." When the system ignores you, you grab your phone and start figuring it out yourself. These apps aren't a cute toy. They're a cry for help that has finally turned into a tool.
Saving the Drowning is the Business of Their Husbands?
And right away, they tell us a touching story about the Ukrainian startup Ovul. A man created a home hormone analysis system for his wife, investing $300,000 out of his own pocket. Sweet? Absolutely. But let's face it. It's absurd. For a woman to get an adequate tool for fertility monitoring, a loving guy with three hundred thousand dollars was needed. And where was the multi-billion dollar healthcare industry all this time? Developing another baldness cure? Thanks, of course, to this guy, he's great. But the very fact that such things appear as "garage startups" is a damn shame for the entire medical system.