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The Small Opening That Changed the Operating Room
Meditrina built a hysteroscope around a deceptively simple question: what if a smaller instrument could still carry the tool a surgeon needs? Its answer, Aveta, turns the crowded choreography of uterine surgery into one connected system.
The Device That Put Heavy Periods on Ice - and Survived the Meltdown
Cerene freezes the uterine lining in 150 seconds. The stranger achievement is that its maker endured an embezzlement, a collapsed $275 million sale and a second life as an independent company.
Diana Health
Diana Health is a women's healthcare company that partners with hospitals to redesign their OB-GYN and labor-and-delivery programs around a midwifery-centered, team-based care model. Certified nurse-midwives work alongside OB-GYNs, therapists, dietitians, and health coaches to deliver longer appointments, integrated mental health, and holistic support across pregnancy, gynecology, menopause, and everyday well-woman care - backed by a digital platform for education and virtual visits. Founded in 2020 and based in New York, the company operates clinics co-located with mid-sized hospitals and serves more than 80,000 women a year.
Manisha Shah-Bugaj
Manisha Shah-Bugaj is the CEO of Activ Surgical, a Boston-based medical technology company building hardware-agnostic surgical software and its ActivSight Intelligent Light imaging module. A medtech executive with more than two decades of experience, she previously built Olympus's U.S. gynecology business from the ground up, rising to General Manager and Global Vice President, before joining Activ Surgical as COO in January 2022 and becoming CEO that December.
Materna Medical
Materna Medical is a Mountain View, California women's health company building FDA-cleared medical devices for pelvic health across a woman's life. Its consumer product, Milli, is the first vaginal dilator that expands one millimeter at a time to treat vaginismus and painful intercourse; its clinical-stage Ellora obstetrical system is designed to pre-stretch pelvic floor muscles during labor to reduce childbirth injury. Led by CEO Tracy MacNeal, the company has raised roughly $82.6M to date.
Millie
Millie is a San Francisco Bay Area maternity and women's health clinic built around a midwifery-led, tech-enabled model. Founded in 2022 by Anu Sharma after her own near-fatal birth experience, it pairs Certified Nurse Midwives and OB-GYN backup with a dedicated doula (a 'Millie Guide'), a proprietary app, remote monitoring, and virtual visits to cover pregnancy, postpartum, gynecology, and menopause. The company accepts most major insurance and has raised roughly $19 million to date, including a $12M Series A in February 2025 from an all-female roster of investors.
Almond ObGyn
Almond ObGyn is a Los Angeles-based, tech-enabled obstetrics and gynecology practice that set out to be the 'One Medical for women's health.' Founded in 2021 by Tara Raffi and Carly Allen and backed by a $7M seed round out of Y Combinator's S22 batch, Almond blended in-person clinic visits with telehealth, 24/7 text access to clinicians, and membership pricing to cover the full arc of reproductive care - from birth control and annual exams to PCOS, fertility, group pregnancy care, and menopause.
Oula
Oula is a modern maternity and gynecology clinic that blends midwifery with obstetrics in a single, collaborative care model. Founded in New York in 2019 and opening its first Brooklyn clinic in 2021, Oula pairs in-person visits with virtual check-ins and care navigators to deliver personalized, evidence-based pregnancy, postpartum, and women's health care. The company reports outcomes that beat NYC benchmarks across race and payer type, accepts insurance and Medicaid, and is expanding beyond New York City after raising a $28M Series B in 2024.