Emmeline Ventures is a female-founded early-stage fund investing in ambitious female founders building businesses that are helping women, in particular, manage their health, build their wealth, and live in a cleaner, safer world.
We recently shared that we raised $16 million in Series A funding to continue our work transforming menopause care. This investment will help us expand our platform, enhance our offerings for healthcare providers, and deliver more personalized care to women navigating this stage of life.
A huge thank you to our incredible investors—Kairos HQ, PACE Healthcare Capital, Emmeline Ventures, and Amboy Street Ventures—for their trust and belief in our mission.
This is just the beginning! We’re so grateful to be here and are excited about the future of menopause care. Thanks Emma Hinchliffe and Fortune sharing the news and our story!
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🚺 Femtech/ Women's Health News 🚺
🚺 UK start-up Ove Care Ltd has launched an app for girls aged 9-17, offering education and support to help them navigate puberty and their first periods.
🚺 Willow Innovations, Inc. known for its wearable breast pumps, has launched Ema, an AI-powered tool within the Willow App, offering conversational maternal health support tailored to new mothers.
🚺 Insud Pharma has received $2.7 million to fund a Phase II trial for a sublingual oxytocin treatment aimed at preventing postpartum haemorrhage, a leading cause of maternal mortality globally.
🚺 Alloy Women's Health, a menopause platform, has raised $16 million in Series A funding with support from PACE Healthcare Capital, Emmeline Ventures and Amboy Street Ventures.
🚺 Celmatix has announced the nomination of its first lead compound in its oral FSHR agonist drug development program. This breakthrough could revolutionise fertility treatment by potentially replacing traditional hormone injections with oral medications.
This week in FemTech and women's health, innovations across puberty, fertility, maternal health, and menopause are transforming care. Key updates include new apps, AI tools, funding rounds, and promising clinical trials all aimed at advancing women's healthcare.
#womenshealth#femtech#fertility#menopause#postpartum#maternalhealth
After a long and challenging week capping off an equally tough month, I’d typically collapse into bed, completely drained. But tonight, I find myself too inspired to sleep.
Why?
Because today, I felt hope reignite.
This afternoon, Emmeline Ventures hosted a "Meet the Founders" webinar for our Fund I investors, featuring two extraordinary women: Noel Pugh of Lōvu Health and Amanda Ducach, MBA of Ema - The AI for Women.
The session was nothing short of inspiring. Noel and Amanda shared their time, insights, and remarkable brilliance, painting a vivid picture of what’s possible in the women’s health space. Their vision is bold yet focused, built on a foundation of intimate customer understanding, exceptional collaboration, clean data, and cutting-edge AI.
Their work has the power to transform women’s health - benefiting not only their employees, customers, and investors but ultimately delivering meaningful improvements to health outcomes for all women.
One of our LPs perfectly captured the spirit of the conversation: “The brilliant energy of Noel and Amanda restored my hope!”
I couldn’t agree more.
In moments like these, I’m reminded of a simple truth:
"It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars."
Thank you, Noel and Amanda, for lighting the way forward. ✨
Thank you La Keisha Landrum Pierre and Motunrayo Obanubi for your exceptional support behind the scenes. 🫶
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🌟 Alloy Women's Health, a PACE Healthcare Capital portfolio company, announced today in Fortune (Emma Hinchliffe) that they’ve raised $16 million of capital. We’re beyond proud to have supported the company as investors since 2021 and participated in this funding as the company completes its Series A.
💼 Co-founded by Monica Molenaar and Anne Fulenwider, Alloy is redefining menopause care in a $17 billion global market that has long been overlooked. By prioritizing accessibility, transparency, and evidence-based solutions, they are setting a new standard for advancing women's health in midlife and beyond.
💻 Alloy Health combines telehealth, prescriptions, and a supportive community to address the unique needs of women over 40. For decades, menopause has been treated as a "wellness" topic instead of a medical one, leaving millions of women to suffer in silence. Alloy is changing that by empowering women to find personalized solutions that truly work.
🤝 We’re thrilled to partner with Kairos HQ, Emmeline Ventures, Amboy Street Ventures, and many other incredible investors, to champion Alloy in its next phase of growth. At PACE, we’ve also loved the management team’s disciplined approach to growth, which aligns with our values and defies the traditional laws of venture. Cherry on the cake - here, it isn’t just about investing in a company. It’s about driving a movement to destigmatize menopause and create meaningful health solutions for women.
🎉 Congratulations to the Alloy team! Your work is paving the way for better care, better conversations, and better outcomes for women everywhere. 🚀
Strategic advisor to 42 practical SaaS founders | 30-year successful software veteran | Founder, Practical Founders | Host of Practical Founders Podcast | LinkedIn Top Voice
This week I met a founder of a SaaS startup who asked me, "So you can build a software company without big outside funding?" My first thought was, Uh oh. He's going to get in trouble fast.
I'm not against VC funding or VCs.
I'm against VCs, ecosystem leaders, tech media, and other founders telling new entrepreneurs that this is the only way to succeed in SaaS.
I'm against founders trying to raise institutional funding from professional investors without knowing how it really works and what is really required for everyone to win.
VC funding isn't bad or evil, it's just overprescribed by funders and misunderstood by most founders.
I asked this founder a few more questions, and it was clear he was just getting started and learning about outside funding.
Here are a few realities he wasn't aware of:
- Most startup and early-stage SaaS companies don't take any outside funding at all in the startup stages. They fund the early product and growth experiments themselves with their time and savings or with resources from their other business.
- Most professional early-stage investors want you to build a product and get some customers before they talk to you. Some angels write friendly checks before you have customers, but VCs rarely do.
- If you play the SAFE note or seed round game with early-stage VC investors, you're expected to grow fast and raise bigger funding rounds. You're on the funding drugs and you can't get off.
- If you raise $1M in a SAFE, $3M in a seed round, and $8M in a Series A, you've already sold half your company, and most of the hard work and risk is still ahead of you.
- Your revenue and growth goals go up, and so do expectations of how much you can sell your company for. A $100M exit might sound good to you, but that's not a win for your latest investor. They probably won't let you sell at that price.
- Your institutional investors just moved in and you'll be working closely with them for 5-10 years. You don't get to make big decisions on your own any more. You might not make it as CEO.
- About 50% of founders who take early-stage funding don't end up with any equity value at all. The company doesn't make it and goes away, or you don't meet your growth goals and can't raise again, or you can't sell the company.
- You might spend half your time as a founder raising money. You probably can raise that much in customer funding (revenue) with the same effort.
- VCs want proven traction and 100% or 200% growth for the next few years. Most founders don't have businesses growing that fast, even with more funding behind them.
- The odds of founder success decrease when you take big VC funding. It's an all-or-nothing game for founders, with a small chance of a blockbuster win.
There's a place for fast-growing software startup rocket ships that can use VC rocket fuel and make it work. These are 10-15% of all software companies.
The first rule of the game is to know what game you are playing.
#practicalfounders
Thanks to all the amazing attendees, superb speakers, generous sponsors and partners who joined us for the 8th annual Recurring Revenue Conference on November 7.
We hope you had a terrific time and were able to learn, make new connections, and have fun!
We are so fortunate to have had all these outstanding speakers this year for our conference:
Tony Smith, CEO and Cofounder, Restaurant365
Brett Queener, Managing Director, Bonfire Ventures
John Tabis, Partner, M13
Daniel Cunningham, Founder/CEO, Leonardo 24/7
Kameale C. Terry, CEO, ChargerHelp!
Peter Cowen, Managing Director, Sutton Capital Partners
Mitesh Gala, CEO, Altametrics
Theresa Robarge, Solution Consulting Manager, Oracle NetSuite
Greg Liberman, CEO, Roaming Hunger
Karan Talati, CEO, First Resonance
Lizzie Francis, Partner, M13
Anuj Bhalla, Founder and CEO, Servicemob
Greg Mochizuki, Partner, CohnReznick
La Keisha Landrum Pierre, Cofounder and Managing Director, Emmeline Ventures
Petra Griffith, Managing Director, Wedbush Ventures
Kashif Hussain, CPA, Office Managing Partner, CohnReznick
Santhosh Devati, Founder, Anamika Ventures
Jennifer Apy, Area Managing Partner and CMO, Chief Outsiders
Dustin Siner, Chief Revenue Officer, Payarc
Tim Arnold, General Partner, Steamwork Ventures
Brittany Crockett, Head of Platform, Slauson & Co
Jonathan Friedman, Partner, Stubbs Alderton & Markiles
Kristen Snyder, Manager, Insperity
Sean O'Neill, Associate, Cooley
Thomas Pedersen, CEO and Founder, Bunny
Kimberly Salzer, Partner and CMO, Chief Outsiders
Scott Fox 🦊, CEO, StartupCouncil.orgMonica D. Higgins, AI Training and Strategy
Mark Wasiljew, Founder, Breakmark Consulting
Rachel Horning, SVP, Cooley
Louis Balla, Partner, Nuage Consulting
Jennifer "JJ" Jank, Chief Brain Hacker/CEO, Desert Diva
And a shoutout to our three finalists in the Future Rockstar Pitch, including our winner Amantha Bagdon, RxPost.
What did I learn? My biggest takeaway was the profound impact of AI on so many levels. We use several different software programs to carry out our work on a daily basis: we can be confident that AI is reshaping how we work so that we can focus on higher-value tasks by reducing repetitive tasks and the number of software tools we deploy.
What was your biggest takeaway? Would love to hear from you.
#RecurringRevenueConference#SaaS#Subscriptions#ScalableBusiness
Highlight Reel from 2024 Recurring Revenue Conference
Thrilled to see the launch of VC Include’s newest program, Fund Fundamentals!
This program is designed to provide timely tools, resources, and an ecosystem of support that future fund managers need to begin their journey toward firm building and fundraising. This is about more than just technical knowledge—it’s about creating a nurturing environment where they can connect with mentors, experts, and peers who will walk alongside them as they take this transformative leap.
Special thanks to Jailan Griffiths of Nasdaq Foundation, Julia Monfrini Peev, La Keisha Landrum Pierre and the VC Include team of Nina Sharma, Ivy Binns, Alia Einstein-Diez , Niysha Anderson, and Joy Jing for setting the right tone and providing the inspiration needed as they embark on their journeys.
Congratulations to the inaugural class!!!
This is how we build the future—together.
Yesterday we kicked off VC Include’s newest program, Fund Fundamentals! 🎉
The inaugural Fund Fundamentals class is comprised of twenty-five women from historically underrepresented populations who are interested in launching a fund in the next one to two years. 🚀
They hail from 13 states and Washington DC, range in age from 25-54, and identify as Black, African American, Middle Eastern, Indigenous, Asian, and Latina. The program will provide them with timely and supportive tools and resources that they will need to create an onramp to begin their firm building and fundraising efforts.
In partnership with the Nasdaq Foundation and with support from Heading for Change, we created the Fund Fundamentals program to reach the growing number of investors who are at the very beginning of their journey and are seeking support as they get started. Beyond the technical knowledge, this program is designed to connect the class to an ecosystem of mentors, experts, and emerging fund managers who can support them on their path to fund formation. 💫
Thank you to Jailan Griffiths, Julia Monfrini Peev, and La Keisha Landrum Pierre for sharing your support, guidance, encouragement and advice during this first session! You are critical to building the nurturing community that this inaugural class needs to feel safe and inspired to make the leap of building a fund. Together we rise! 🙌🏽
#womeninfinance#womeninvestors#genderequality#vc#pe#diversityandinclusion#impactinvesting#fundmanagers#venturecapital#DiversityInVC#ImpactinAction#emergingmanagers#alternateinvestments
Yesterday we kicked off VC Include’s newest program, Fund Fundamentals! 🎉
The inaugural Fund Fundamentals class is comprised of twenty-five women from historically underrepresented populations who are interested in launching a fund in the next one to two years. 🚀
They hail from 13 states and Washington DC, range in age from 25-54, and identify as Black, African American, Middle Eastern, Indigenous, Asian, and Latina. The program will provide them with timely and supportive tools and resources that they will need to create an onramp to begin their firm building and fundraising efforts.
In partnership with the Nasdaq Foundation and with support from Heading for Change, we created the Fund Fundamentals program to reach the growing number of investors who are at the very beginning of their journey and are seeking support as they get started. Beyond the technical knowledge, this program is designed to connect the class to an ecosystem of mentors, experts, and emerging fund managers who can support them on their path to fund formation. 💫
Thank you to Jailan Griffiths, Julia Monfrini Peev, and La Keisha Landrum Pierre for sharing your support, guidance, encouragement and advice during this first session! You are critical to building the nurturing community that this inaugural class needs to feel safe and inspired to make the leap of building a fund. Together we rise! 🙌🏽
#womeninfinance#womeninvestors#genderequality#vc#pe#diversityandinclusion#impactinvesting#fundmanagers#venturecapital#DiversityInVC#ImpactinAction#emergingmanagers#alternateinvestments
🌟 Speaker Spotlight: Azin Radsan van Alebeek
Meet Azin Radsan van Alebeek, the Co-Founder of Emmeline Ventures, at our insightful Ask an Investor event. With over three decades of strategic executive leadership, Azin has dedicated herself to empowering female entrepreneurs to turn visionary ideas into reality. Her expertise in financial literacy and angel investing has been instrumental in fostering the growth of scalable, impactful businesses.
🚀 About Emmeline Ventures: Emmeline Ventures is more than a fund; it's a movement. By focusing on tech-enabled sectors such as FemTech, FinTech, and Sustainability, Emmeline Ventures seeks to propel female-led startups to the forefront of innovation and market success. Their commitment extends beyond financial support to nurturing a culture of strategic development and positive social impacts, making them a beacon for ambitious women ready to challenge the status quo and lead transformative businesses.
Join us to learn expert insights from Azin at our "Ask Me Anything" style event: Ask an Investor with Azin Radsan van Alebeek
📅 November 21
⏰ 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
📍Online
🎟️ RSVP for free: https://lnkd.in/expNCF8s#womenintech#entrepreneurship#investing#venture
