Estia Ryan is a VC and head of research at Eka Ventures.
The intersection of this role as well as Eka’s investment into Cyclana Bio, Ditto Daily and Hesta Health make her incredibly well placed to cover the common challenges women’s health founders faced when moving from ideation to raising pre-seed
Last year Estia partnered with Yougov to survey over 1000 women, which they used to create an incredible women’s health landscape report which I highly recommend you check out here - The Future Of Women's Health
Estia has kindly spoken on 2 of our panels and I always love her perspectives so I’m really excited to bring you this conversation today without needing to join us for a panel.
As always please feel free to let me know your questions and feedback
We discuss:
How Estia see's the current women's health, tech and fundraising landscape, what's changed in the 4 months since her report was published?
Why do women's health founders struggle to raise venture capital?
Consumer wellness vs regulated medical device - speed of implementation and GTM vs regulation in the age of fundraising being tough
When a problem is truly meaningful to solve but doesn’t have a huge TAM - What should founders do? Have a narrative on future expansion and / or alternative funding sources?
What role does community play in women's health and / or supporting female founders? How do we get more money into ‘grass roots’ community, advocacy, support networks, and events? Also see this report from Estia on community and consumer
Who Owns Women’s Health Data? As women’s health becomes a high-value data frontier, who should own, govern and benefit from that data, and what must remain a public good rather than a private moat?
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