Women’s Health
Innovation Program

Springboard’s Women’s Health Innovation Program is for women-led companies seeking growth funding and connections to experts and strategic partners for product development and expansion. The program combines high-value events and workshops with an impactful community.

About the Program

Springboard’s Women’s Health Innovation Program serves as a collective voice to drive women’s health innovation, investment and research. The Program gathers key industry leaders to promote greater gender-specific health data transparency and spur investment in women’s health innovation to produce better health outcomes for all.

Our program accelerates the growth of women led companies innovating in women’s health. Our mission is to address unmet needs in diseases, conditions, and indications that solely, predominantly, or differently impact the health of women.

  • Funding for femtech – defined as tech products or services which serve women’s health needs including fertility and sexual health — doubled in 2021 to $1.4 billion. (Source: Business Insider).
  • Only 5% of all digital health funding in 2021 went to women’s health tech companies (Source: Business Insider).
  • The femtech market is projected to exceed $60 billion by 2027 (Source: Emergen Research)

2023 Program Timeline

Application Launch

July 2023

Early Application Deadline

Aug 15, 2023

Final Application Deadline

Sept 22, 2023

Virtual Interviews

Oct 2023

Intensive Bootcamp Week

Tentatively Dec 2023

Advisory Period

Q1 2024

What is Women’s Health?

Springboard’s Women’s Health Innovation Program identified The Framework of Women’s Health, which includes innovative solutions in Cognitive and Brain Health, Cardiovascular Health, Reproductive Health, Gynecological and Sexual Health, Aging and Bone Health, Oncology, and Autoimmune.

2022 Women’s Health Innovation Forum Series

Watch our Springboard hosted discussions from last year:

Women’s Health Forum Event: Autoimmune

March 30, 2022

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Women’s Health Forum Event: Gynecology & Sexual Health

April 27, 2022

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Women’s Health Forum Event: Bone Health & Aging

May 25, 2022

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Women’s Health Forum Event: Cognitive & Brain Health

June 29, 2022

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Women’s Health Forum Event: Reproductive Health

July 27, 2022

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Women’s Health Forum Event: Cardiovascular Health

September 28, 2022

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Women’s Health Forum Event: Oncology

November 15, 2022

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Prior Women’s Health Program Sponsors

If you are interested in sponsoring or learning more about the program, please email:
Ashley Lundy, at [email protected]