From menopause to fertility, meet the 14 startups of STATION F’s FemTech Program batch 1

After months of development, the FemTech Program’s first batch just kicked off! 14 new companies joined STATION F for six months starting this week to benefit from the program and all the resources of the campus. Created with the support of 50 FemTech experts, the FemTech Program is dedicated to entrepreneurs working on solutions to improve women’s health will provide exclusive tools and resources as well as resources from the campus, to its members.

All the applications received for this first batch show the current trends of the FemTech industry. Menopause which was seen as the next emerging topic in the industry few months ago is now the most represented segment in the applications. Two companies focussing on this challenge are actually joining the program:

Oména: Oména is building a digital guide to help women go through menopause. This "guide" is a mobile app on which they can find short articles written by healthcare practitioners, and personalized lifestyle advice and content to help them reduce their specific symptoms.

The Menopause App: The Menopause App is inspiring people to be active during the perimenopause & menopause transition. The Menopause App creates personalized fitness, health and wellness plans and programs, based on individual data (AI & ML), for people entering perimenopause and menopause.

Fertility app and innovations, as the second most represented topic in the applications, are also part of the first batch of the program with three selected companies:

Bumpy: Bumpy is a digital platform that helps women going through fertility treatments easily, review and find treatments, doctors and clinics. Women can then proceed to make a booking with their preferred clinic/doctor directly in the app. Bumpy is also a social network for women navigating fertility.

Freya: Freya is empowering women to take better control of and be proactive in their reproductive health. Freya is building a full service to answer women's interrogation on their fertility status and the actions they can take to understand, protect and improve their fertility.

Selectivity: Selectivity helps to build families bringing reproductive treatments to patients' homes. With Selectivity’s patented technology, a biomimetic membrane, the company developed a sperm selection device which allows it to perform a selection anywhere and for everyone.

Other companies joining the program are focussing on global health, mental health, chronic disease and cervical cancer. They include the following companies:

Baûbo: Baûbo is a brand of feminist and eco-designed cosmetic care. Baûbo’s best-seller is a 100% natural & 100% organic vulva care to be applied after sex and every day.

Butterfly XR Studio: Butterfly XR Studio empowers women in important periods of their life and helps them to overcome their psychological traumas and limits. Butterfly XR Studio will create apps treating mental health and taboo subjects dedicated to women.

e.GYN: Egyn will assist doctors assess women's risk to get cervical cancer with AI algorithm and help them decide what's the best care for every woman.

Gapianne: Gapianne is the one-stop-shop for female intimacy. It curates the best of clean and safe intimate wellness essentials on its eshop and provides experts advice with a holistic approach of female body and intimate life.

Gynica: The company is developing clinically validated, cannabinoid-based products for different gynecological disorders.

Imana Care: Imana Care provides digital and holistic support for women suffering from hormonal imbalances on a daily basis. Imana Care does that with an app providing personalized programs, a trusted community, and quality content validated by medical experts.

Ma Joie: Ma Joie reinvents strap-ons to let every woman explore new roles in their sexuality comfortably and take pleasure out of it.

Moonai: Moonai is a femtech start-up developing a mobile app that uses customized and science-based sounds, resources, and pain-tracking insights to help reduce period-related pain.

Sacrées Femmes: Sacrées Femmes, the modern medical home for women, offers integrative and personalized care, accessible, connected and collaborative. Sacrées Femmes is a network of integrative health clinics and virtual services to offer all women a go-to front door to high-quality healthcare in France.