How Black tech entrepreneurs are tackling health care's race gap

Inspired by their own experiences, plus those of their parents and grandparents, Black entrepreneurs are launching startups that aim to close the cultural gap in health care with technology — and create profitable businesses at the same time.

 Meet the Entrepreneurs Innovating in the Women’s Health Moonshot

we’ve compiled a list of the innovative entrepreneurs in our portfolio who are making women’s health a priority and revolutionizing the space with new solutions,

 These women entrepreneurs are making medical and healthcare facilities available to all

From a medical tourism platform, a medical equipment e-marketplace to a portal helping the elderly with doctor’s appointments, these women-led medtech startups are doing their bit to keep you in the pink of health.

 Women Entrepreneurs: Changemakers in Healthcare

Entrepreneurs create new business and jobs, drive innovation, influence change on many levels, and positively impact industry. As patients, caregivers, and healthcare consumers, women are leading decision-makers. And women entrepreneurs are essential to healthcare.

Lisa Suennen: The gatekeeper...

In an industry in which hype can often overtake reality, Suennen (pronounced SOON-en) is quicker than most to call out silliness. She has a reputation as an irreverent straight-talker and, as the lead health care investor for General Electric’s corporate venture arm, she has a knack for deflating doomed business models and bad ideas for improving health care.

Melinda Gates: Here's Why I'm Committing $1 Billion to Promote Gender Equality

Too many people—women and men—have worked too hard to get us this far. And there are too many possible solutions we haven’t tried yet. That’s why, over the next ten years, I am committing $1 billion to expanding women’s power and influence in the United States.

The Top 25 Women Leaders in Medical Devices of 2021

Across orthopedics, surgery, wound care, drug delivery, monitoring, and other areas, this year’s awardees have produced some of the most innovative and pervasive medical device technologies worldwide.

10 Women Changing the Landscape of Leadership

In critical fields like agriculture, science, finance and technology, they have staked a claim with their pioneering work and are building a path for the next generation.

Black women are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs. So where are the investors?

Black women may be leading the overall charge among new small-business owners, but a new report says that for black women in tech, it's not with the help of big investors.

Do women-focused capital funds actually help women, or are they just ‘pinkwashing?

Our study suggests that an increasing number of investment funds described as “women-focused” fall short of this standard in practice. In light of these findings, due diligence on the part of both investors and entrepreneurs is essential.

FemHealth Ventures Seeks $50 Million for Women’s Health Investments

Venture funding for the industry is rising as startups develop a range of new technologies.

Is ‘Femtech’ the Next Big Thing in Health Care?

Start-ups and tech companies are creating products to address women’s health care needs. It’s still a small segment of the market, but growing.

The Next Generation of Female Founders and Entrepreneurs Is Ready to Disrupt The BioHealth Industry

As we continue to cover the diversity gap issue, and the progress being made, we want to highlight the next wave of female founders and entrepreneurs who are disrupting the biohealth industry and its norms.

Theranos Didn’t Stop the Search for the Next Healthcare Star

Investors still hold entrepreneurs to higher standards, but the taint has faded. ‘It’s a short half-life.’

They Still Live in the Shadow of Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes

Female entrepreneurs said they were constantly compared to Ms. Holmes, the disgraced founder of Theranos, who faces trial soon.

Women-Run Health Care Startups Finally Break Through With Venture Investors

The realization that women are an underserved market within health care--and that women are often exactly the ones who can fix that situation--has been surprisingly recent. Women control 80 percent of the health care spending in a household, taking charge of their own care, that of their children, and, in heterosexual couples, that of their partner.