Femtech Startups Are Finally Innovating for Menopause

Femtech Startups Are Finally Innovating for Menopause
New companies are leaning into women’s midlife moments
Zara Stone
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8 min read·
Apr 29, 2019
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Illustration by Celia Jacobs
Inside a Walgreens in Pacific Heights, an upscale district of San Francisco, Sydney Larson strolled through the aisles. Her heels clicked on the floor as she circled the cosmetics aisle, looping past colorful tubes of lipstick and fridges filled with two-for-one Vitaminwater. She…
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Written by Zara Stone
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Tech+Culture f/lance journo. www.zarastone.net Bylines: OneZero, Marker, Atlantic, Forbes, etc. Author: The Future of Science Is Female https://bit.ly/stm202
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