
Emerger, She Wrote
In this blog, I follow emerging brands and their founders’ stories and call out the qualities which stand a company in good stead in today’s turbulent times
“You have to come out of the NHS to put it back together”, says Dr Hannah Allen
“Covid-19 is the best thing that could have happened to fast forward innovation of the healthcare system”, Hannah tells me, due to its ability to cut through legacy process and provide an unarguable incentive for change. Covid has undoubtedly brought about decades of innovation in the NHS in the short 6 months since lockdown began…
Alice Pelton, Co-Founder of the world’s first contraception review platform, The Lowdown
Next up in my Healthtech lockdown series, I caught up with Alice Pelton, Co-Founder of The Lowdown, the world’s first contraception review platform. Within just 14 months, the platform has skyrocketed, partly due to Alice being accepted onto the prestigious Entrepreneur First accelerator programme where she met her co-founder David, and partly because, as Alice…
“Women around the world are all the same. They are going to take care of their children and their community and often die doing so”, says Marissa Fayer, CEO of HERHealthEQ.
One of the joys of lockdown is that I’ve managed to get hold of some incredible women all around the world that I would never have got to otherwise, one of whom is Marissa Fayer. Marissa is the Founder and CEO of HERHealthEQ, a not-for-profit that provides medical devices and equipment for women’s health issues…