Shardi Nahavandi
Shardi Nahavandi is the Co-Founder and CEO of TUUNE, a startup focusing on personalized birth control. She was inspired to start the company after being misdiagnosed with bowel cancer, eventually focusing on her own research on hormone imbalances.
Priya Oberoi
Priya Oberoi is the Founding Partner at Goddess Gaia Ventures, which is building a £100 million pre-series A venture fund to invest in companies innovating in women’s health and wellness. She is also the Founder and Managing Partner at Oberoi Capital Partners Limited. She is an avid angel investor and has over 20 years’ experience in the legal and financial industry and has a degree from Oxford University.
Melis Guvensoy
Melis is a strategic consultant, entrepreneur and a business developer in life sciences. After finishing her bachelor in biochemistry at University of Leicester and her masters in cancer therapeutics at Queen Mary University of London, she has gathered experience in supply chain, sales and business analysis in the UK and Cyprus to understand the world of entrepreneurship and innovation from different industry perspectives. Later, she took on a business development role at Whale Bay & Co (Deloitte spin-off), a life sciences and health consultancy company in the Netherlands. Afterwards, she joined a contract research organisation called OcellO BV, as a business manager, that does 3D in vitro compound screening in a physiologically relevant patient disease environment using organoids. She is also a board member in the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Women community, and an active member in Cyprus Women's Health Research Society. In 2021, Melis founded Bold Innovates. In her role at Bold Innovates, next to managing the company, she leads the innovation development and growth strategy of client projects.
Lynae Brayboy
Lynae is the Chief Medical Officer at Clue, the company founded by Ida Tin who coined the term ‘femtech’. Clue’s mission is for women and people with cycles to make good choices for themselves, and live full lives not in spite of their biology, but in tune with it and was launched helloclue.com in February 2018 to help close the knowledge gap about the menstrual cycle—with information that’s accessible, serious, scientific, and empathetic.
Lucanus Polagnoli
Lucanus is one of Europe’s emerging managers: He is a founder and managing partner at Calm/Storm, an early-stage venture capital fund focused on digital-health and wellbeing. Before founding Calm/Storm in 2020, he was a startup operator, a CFO and a general partner of an early-stage fund (Speedinvest) – a combination not often found in venture capital.
Lucanus is passionate about helping others – especially founders – and will assist in every aspect of building your company. Investors and founders trust him, his hands-on approach and his knowledge around numbers. With more than 35 investments, he and the Calm/Storm team have demonstrated the ability to find and pick those rare cases where entrepreneurs are able to build both outstanding products and big businesses. Lucanus also has a real passion for digital solutions that improve our lives, and has most likely hit the limit of the number of apps "installable" on a phone.
In his free time, you’ll find him spending time with his wife and three children in the most liveable city in the world, Vienna, Austria, or sometimes racing sailing boats in his home turf, Lake Attersee in beautiful Salzkammergut – or as he calls it, “The Sound Of Music Land”.
Leon-Ariel Boston
Consummate CEO and entrepreneurial business leader with consistent track-record of success in the start-up, growth and leadership of high-performance MedTech companies.
In the last years, Leon has focused on women's health, creating new innovative products leveraging the latest digital technologies and artificial intelligence .
He is a regular contributor at different FemTech forums worldwide.
As a CEO of MobileODT, Leon has been transforming the company into a fully encompassing digital health solution, built on the foundations of AI for cervical cancer screening. With further applications in women’s wellness and fertility under development, MobileODT is evolving as a leading Femtech company transforming lives and changing outcomes for women world-wide.
Lea von Bidder
Lea von Bidder is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ava Women, which leverages big data and artificial intelligence in women’s health. he company's initial product consists of a sophisticated sensor bracelet, an app and a powerful backend with self-learning algorithms for interpretation of hormonal changes, accurate ovulation tracking and screening of women's health issues.
Kathrin Folkendt
Kathrin Folkendt is the Founder & CEO at Femtech Insider, the number 1 source for all things femtech. The newsletter briefs people on deals, company and startup launches, as well as femtech and Healthtech industry insights. Alongside this, Kathrin is also the Co-Founder of PERLA Health, an evidence-based integrative approach towards changing the way that PCOS education and care are delivered.
Karina Vazirova
Karina is the co-founder of FemTech Lab, a global platform for startups in women's health and wellness. Prior to FemTech Lab, Karina founded KV LABS, a product development agency focusing on UX Design, AI & Robotic Automation, led high-growth product teams, and launched digital products in the US, Australia, UK and Europe. Karina is also an International Chess Master.