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Women’s Health Access Matters (WHAM) has produced financial data on investment trends in women’s health start-ups, with the aim of highlighting the field’s huge business opportunity.
Women’s health can be a lucrative business, with above average ROIs, according to emerging data, but the opportunity still represents a sliver of the total available capital, even as women represent 51% of the US population and the differentiation between men’s and women’s health needs becomes clearer.
That was the message Carolee Lee, CEO and founder of Women’s Health Access Matters (WHAM), conveyed during a keynote speech at the recent two-day CURE Power of X-Summit. CURE, a healthcare innovation ecosystem founded by the private equity firm Deerfield Management, organized the meeting to bring together diverse stakeholders to examine opportunities and challenges posed by directing dollars specifically to women’s health innovation.
