Legally Femtech
The Legally Femtech podcast, sponsored by Nixon Gwilt Law, empowers femtech companies, creators, investors, and users to revolutionize women's health by providing practical, legal, and ethical insights into the healthcare startup community. Your host, Bethany Corbin, is a healthcare innovation and femtech attorney with almost a decade of experience. She is on a mission to help thought-leading companies disrupt and transform the global women's health sector. In each episode, Bethany discusses critical issues that impact women's health and offers invaluable tips for entrepreneurs looking to launch their own femtech products. With an exciting lineup of international guest speakers, Legally Femtech delves into the lifecycle of digital health startups - from idea conception to product design to fundraising, scaling, and exiting (and all of the legal considerations in between!). Tune in every other Wednesday for new episodes!
Episodes
In this episode, Bethany Corbin and Virginia Franco discuss:
- Why it is important to be humble and ask for help
- Why you should follow quality standards from the beginning
- How to inspire people to push back against stigma
- How to manage the push and pull between regulation and innovation
Key Takeaways:
- You must allow yourself to ask for help. It’s important to be humble and to trust people. Treat each member as a part...
In this episode, Bethany Corbin and Sylvia Kang discuss:
- Why launching a startup is more difficult than you expect
- Why a product has to have a market fit
- How to create a brand message that resonates with consumers
- How organizational structure helps companies scale and grow
Key Takeaways:
- Launching a startup will always be harder than you think, so be prepared to plan and go through a process of trial and error. Be p...
In this episode, Bethany Corbin and Dallas Barnes discuss:
- Why birth control shouldn’t be a one-size-fits-all solution
- What misconceptions people have about birth control
- Why it is important to get feedback from your users
- How to manage the uphill battle of pitching in FemTech
Key Takeaways:
- Birth control is an individualized journey and not a one-size-fits-all solution. The solution for each person has to be persona...
In this episode, Bethany Corbin and Kate Batz discuss:
- Why women’s health companies don’t get the attention they deserve
- Creating progress in FemTech
- Addressing women’s health span
- Bringing attention to your health
Key Takeaways:
- Women’s health companies don’t get the attention they deserve because only 4% of tech investment goes into life sciences and part of the reason why is that femtech is relatively young and ...
In this episode, Bethany Corbin and Brittany Barreto discuss:
- How to Empower your position in a founder-investor relationship
- How a convertible note and a safe are different
- What five terms you need to get familiar with in regard to convertible notes
- How to push back and set your own terms
Key Takeaways:
- As a founder, you have power in the founder-investor relationship. Usually, you’ll know more than investors do, so...
In this episode, Bethany Corbin and Jessica Platt discuss:
- What it means to design for inclusivity
- What role regulation and innovation play in FemTech
- Why companies need to be intentional in data privacy
- Whether regulations should be decreased in favor of emerging industries
Key Takeaways:
- Designing for inclusivity is all about moving beyond the male standard approach and designing something that improves the user e...
In this episode, Bethany Corbin and Christina Miller discuss:
- What data governance is
- What the consequences are for irresponsible data governance
- How to maintain data equity
- Why data governance is a front-end investment
Key Takeaways:
- Data governance is how the culture in an organization makes decisions on how to organize and categorize data, who has ownership over it, who has access to it, and how decisions are ma...
In this episode, Bethany Corbin and Keren Leshem discuss:
- Why you need to know your investor audience
- Why investment is a two-way street
- How to develop your story and pitch
- How to Communicate with investors and your team
Key Takeaways:
- Know your audience. Know exactly who to go to, when you need to raise your funds, how much you're raising, how much you're going to raise now and in the future, and what you...
In this episode, Bethany Corbin and Dr. Brittany Barreto discuss:
- How to choose between C Corp vs LLC for your FemTech startup
- When you should start forming your company
- How much to budget for legal fees
- What six documents you should have when starting your FemTech company
- What to expect in Part Two of our discussion
Key Takeaways:
- While startup companies can form as either LLCs or C-Corps, the preferred corporate vehi...
In this episode, Bethany Corbin and Oriana discuss:
- How to bridge the gap between academia and the market
- Where to find a partner for your startup
- How to handle rejection (3 tips!)
Key Takeaways:
- There is a lot of medical innovation being done in academia, but most of these stay in academia. Your company could be the bridge that could bring innovation out of academia and into the market.
- Finding the perfect academic par...
In this episode, Bethany Corbin, Alice Zheng, and Stasia Obremskey discuss:
- The impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision on femtech investment and funding
- Areas of women’s health that are particularly suited for investment in a post-Roe v. Wade world
- The role of private capital in femtech and investment opportunities
- Tips for femtech startups trying to raise capital
Key Takeaways:
- Women’s health has long been ...
In this episode, Bethany Corbin and Jessica Karr discuss:
- Creating the greatest positive impact with your product
- Collaboration in the Fem Tech industry
- Advice for early start ups
- How to get better at pitching
Key Takeaways:
- Companies that are now focusing on sustainability need to realize that they have to put more attention on the side of positive social impact too.
- Having more women in the industry brings a uni...
In this episode, Bethany Corbin and Jingjin Liu discuss:
- How to build inner confidence in order to ask for more
- Why there needs to be more conversations on sex and tech
- How broad the range of sex tech is
- How we can promote education on sexual wellness
Key Takeaways:
- If women are not even able to ask for pleasure in the bedroom, how will they be able to ask for a promotion or a salary increase? If we are able to hel...
- Astrid’s founder journey with LEIA
- Where to start with your own femtech company
- How to scale and when to push for growth
- How to remain resilient by surrounding yourself with people
- If you want to start your own femtech company, you need to start with data. Data drives value, which is nec...
In this episode, Bethany Corbin and Ari Krzyzek discuss:
- Creating a brand purpose statement
- Finding out who your ideal audience is
- Deciding when you should create your brand
- Marketing strategies for reproductive health products
Key Takeaways:
- If you truly embrace design and even branding at the earlier stage, you're gonna save a lot of time and even money down the road, simply because you already have all of your foun...
In this special episode of Legally Femtech, join host Bethany Corbin for a continued exploration of incorporating diversity and inclusivity into femtech products. Bethany speaks with Belen Copetti, a creative director working at Mira Fertility, who is in charge of establishing the brand's creative and marketing strategies. Belen has worked in the marketing and creative fields for over 8 years and is in charge of executing Mira...
In this episode of Legally Femtech, join host Bethany Corbin as she explores how femtech companies can design their products and platforms for maximum inclusivity and diversity. Bethany speaks with guest Elizabeth Gordon, a femtech and sextech marketing strategist and conversion copywriter who produced The Inclusive Language Guide for Femtech and Sextech Leaders (https://elizabethagordon.com/inclusivelanguageguide). Join us for an ...
In this special episode of Legally Femtech, host Bethany Corbin discusses the landscape of reproductive health rights and justice (RHRJ) following the leaked U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Joining Bethany is special guest Natalie Birnbaum, a healthcare innovation attorney at Nixon Gwilt Law. Natalie is co-chair of the abortion access committee at the NYC Bar Association's Sex...
On this episode of Legally Femtech, join your host Bethany Corbin for an exciting exploration of the lifecycle of an early stage femtech startup! Bethany is joined on this episode by Alice Mattsson, founder of Pharmista Technologies in Sweden, which seeks to create breakthroughs in diagnostic device development using reusable technology. Alice and Bethany discuss how female entrepreneurs can take their company from idea to reality,...
The abortion landscape in the United States is on the precipice of change. Following the leaked Supreme Court decision, femtech consumers are concerned that their sensitive health data is not adequately secured or protected by femtech companies. News articles have advocated for women to delete their health data from menstrual and fertility tracking apps. This lack of trust in femtech privacy and security practices could undermine a...
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