On the VatorNews innovation podcast, Steven Loeb and Bambi Francisco Roizen speak to Dany Papineau, founder and CEO of WeChalet, an online platform for travelers to find and book vacation rentals in nature offered by peers.

Dany Papineau, founder and CEO of WeChalet, on the VatorNews innovation podcast

On the VatorNews innovation podcast, Steven Loeb speaks with Alex Paquet, President and ‍co-founder at LeadFox, an all-in-one, marketing software designed to boost digital marketing performance.

Alex Paquet, President and ‍co-founder of LeadFox, on the VatorNews innovation podcast

On the VatorNews innovation podcast, Steven Loeb and Bambi Francisco Roizen talk with Stephan Elliott, CEO of Noovelia, a company on a mission to automate the entire engineering process for the manufacturing industry to help overcome the labor shortage.

Stephan Elliott, CEO of Noovelia, on the VatorNews innovation podcast

On the VatorNews podcast, Steven Loeb and Bambi Francisco talk to Dr Jean Gekas, Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder at Genoscience, and Claire Bascunana, certified genetic counselor at Genolife. Genocience is a group of private clinics offering genetic screening and patient support services for fertility, creating a package of testing around pregnancy and follow-up services.

Genoscience co-founder Jean Gekas, and genetic counselor Claire Bascunana, on the VatorNews podcast

On the VatorNews podcast, Bambi Francisco talks to Mark Aurousseau, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at eNuvio, and Geoff Schwartz, Chief Operating Officer at Mirus Bio

eNuvio co-founder Mark Aurousseau and Mirus Bio COO Geoff Schwartz on the VatorNews podcast

Steven Loeb and Bambi Francisco Roizen talk to Emi Gal, founder and CEO of Ezra, a company pioneering the use of full-body MRI to detect cancer and over 500 other conditions in up to 13 organs in the body

Emi Gal, founder and CEO of Ezra, on the VatorNews podcast

Invent Health is a salon-styled tech talk and mixer where valuable lessons and insights are shared by investors, tech pioneers and adopters. Invent Health is designed to take a 360-degree view of one particular topic. We conduct events in-person and online. 

For this event, we looked at women’s health, specifically fertility and menopause. 

Infertility is defined as being unable to get pregnant after one year of unprotected sex if women under 35 years of age, or 6 months in women 35 years and older. About 11% of women and 9% of men of childbearing age having infertility issues in the United States and the total fertility rate worldwide has dropped by nearly 1% per year from 1960 to 2018, which is more than 10% per decade and more than 50% over 50 years. There are a number of reasons why this might be happening, chief among them is that women are having children later, with the median age at which women gave birth in the United States increasing from 27 in 1990 to 30 in 2019.  

Fertility has become big business, with the market size in the U.S. alone expected to grow to $8.69 billion by 2033, up from $5.34 billion in 2023. Meanwhile, the global menopause market is even larger, hitting $15.4 billion in 2021 with projections to climb to $24.4 billion by 2030, according to Grand View Research.

What are health plans covering? How are companies innovating? 

Speakers: Bambi Francisco Roizen (Founder and CEO, Vator); Dr. Archana Dubey (Chief Medical Officer, United Healthcare); Dr. Jean Gekas (CEO, Genoscience); La Keisha Landrum Pierre (Partner, Emmeline Ventures); Dr. Tammy Mahaney (Venture Partner, Suncoast Ventures); Dr. Jillian Lopiano, Chief Health Officer (Wisp, part of Well Health Technologies); Dr. Tendai Chiware (Director of Third Party Reproductive Programs, GENESIS Fertility and Reproductive Medicine); Dr. Gabrielle Gaspar (Chief Medical Officer, Hill Physicians)

Invent Health: Fertility and Menopause

On the VatorNews Innovation podcast, Bambi Francisco Roizen speaks with George Kellerman, Founding Managing Director of Woven Capital, Toyota’s $800 million dollar growth fund seeking to invest in the future of mobility - that’s everything from cars, to the energy that fuels them to the communications and smart devices inside of them, to basically anything that has to do with mobility, including redesigning the flow and structure of cities to well… there’s a lot more.

George Kellerman, Founding Managing Director of Toyota's Woven Capital, on the VatorNews podcast

Steven Loeb speaks with Meri Beckwith, co-founder of Lindus Health, a company that calls itself an “an anti-CRO” running faster and more reliable trials for life science companies

Meri Beckwith, co-founder of Lindus Health, on the VatorNews podcast

Steven Loeb speaks Dr. Tim Garnett, former Chief Medical Officer at Eli Lilly. Dr. Garnett has more than 30 years of experience pioneering clinical development, medical affairs, and regulatory operations worldwide, predominantly during his tenure at Eli Lilly, with a focus on women’s health, metabolic diseases, and CNS conditions.

Invent Health: Fertility and Menopause

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