Exploring the big ideas, trends and investment potential in the future of women's health <br/><br/><a href="https://blog.billiondollarblindspot.com?utm_medium=podcast">blog.billiondollarblindspot.com</a>
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Exploring the big ideas, trends and investment potential in the future of women's health <br/><br/><a href="https://blog.billiondollarblindspot.com?utm_medium=podcast">blog.billiondollarblindspot.com</a>
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April 16, 2026
The Menopause Information Crisis
<p>Some markets follow a familiar script: a need emerges, founders respond, capital flows, and eventually, the sector matures. But women’s health doesn’t work like that.</p><p>In a recent episode of Blindspot Capital, I sat down with <a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/hotflashinc">Hotflash inc menopause + midlife by Ann Marie McQueen</a> to explore what happens when a market begins not with products or funding but with missing information.</p><p>When Ann-Marie launched her newsletter in 2020, she wasn’t trying to build a company. She was trying to make sense of her own body. What she found instead was something far bigger: a fragmented, contradictory, and often commercialized information landscape where women were left to navigate perimenopause largely on their own. So she started writing.</p><p>What began as a weekly research letter has since grown into a global community spanning more than 20,000 women across 40 countries—an ecosystem built not on products, but on trust, nuance, and lived experience.</p><p>But this conversation is not about content creation. It’s about what has to exist before markets can function at all.</p><p>We talk about:</p><p>* <strong>Information as infrastructure: </strong>why women’s health markets are being built on community-led knowledge systems and what happens when reliable information doesn’t exist</p><p>* <strong>Trust vs. scale: </strong>why credibility in women’s health is earned through lived experience and nuance not reach, virality, or clinical authority alone</p><p>* <strong>The danger of certainty: </strong>how overly simplified narratives (especially around hormone therapy) can signal bias rather than truth</p><p>* <strong>The education burden on women: </strong>why midlife women are forced to become their own researchers, clinicians, and decision-makers in the absence of clear guidance</p><p>* <strong>Fear as a business model: </strong>who benefits when women are confused, overwhelmed, or anxious and how that shapes the entire category</p><p>🎧 Watch the full episode on YouTube</p><p>📄 Learn more about Hot Flash Inc. and share this episode</p><p>Join 19,000+ readers of <a target="_blank" href="https://femmehealthventures.substack.com/"><strong>The Billion Dollar Blindspot</strong></a> newsletter on Substack.</p><p>📌<a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/6vOCijPVtuM"> Watch the full episode on YouTube</a></p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to The Billion Dollar Blindspot at <a href="https://blog.billiondollarblindspot.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">blog.billiondollarblindspot.com/subscribe</a>
April 2, 2026
Building FemTech Infrastructure in Asia
<p>Some markets follow this script: A need appears. Entrepreneurs respond. Capital flows in. Eventually, the sector matures and innovation accelerates. But some markets don’t follow that script.</p><p>In a recent episode of Blindspot Capital, I sat down with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsaydavis99/">Lindsay Davis</a>, founder of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.femtechassociation.com/">FemTech Association Asia</a>, to talk about what it actually takes to build women’s health markets in Southeast Asia.</p><p>When Lindsay moved to Singapore in 2020, she wasn’t planning to work in women’s health. But what she noticed was difficult to ignore: founders, policymakers, and investors were all present, but disconnected. There was no shared infrastructure, no unified ecosystem, and no clear pathway for innovation to scale. So she started building.</p><p>What began as a simple act of connecting people has evolved into one of the largest specialist networks for women’s health innovation across Asia spanning research, partnerships, founder support, and ecosystem development.</p><p>But this conversation is not about startup growth. It’s about what has to exist before growth is even possible.</p><p>We talk about:</p><p>* <strong>Ecosystem building before capital:</strong> why markets don’t emerge fully formed and why infrastructure matters long before funding arrives</p><p>* <strong>The education burden on founders:</strong> how stigma and low awareness shape how companies are built in Asia</p><p>* <strong>Regional complexity:</strong> why Southeast Asia is not a single market, but a matrix of cultures, systems, and behaviors</p><p>* <strong>The visibility gap:</strong> how lack of data and precedent keeps women’s health overlooked by investors</p><p>* <strong>Capital flows in Asia:</strong> where femtech funding is actually coming from and how that is beginning to shift</p><p>What emerges from this conversation is a different understanding of women’s health.</p><p>🎧 <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/Sluw9srcUaA"><strong>Watch the full episode on YouTube</strong></a></p><p>📄 Learn more about <a target="_blank" href="https://www.femtechassociation.com/">FemTech Association Asia</a> and share this episode.</p><p>Join 19,000+ readers of <a target="_blank" href="https://femmehealthventures.substack.com/"><strong>The Billion Dollar Blindspot</strong></a> newsletter on Substack.</p><p>📌<a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/6vOCijPVtuM"> Watch the full episode on YouTube</a></p><p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to The Billion Dollar Blindspot at <a href="https://blog.billiondollarblindspot.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">blog.billiondollarblindspot.com/subscribe</a>
March 12, 2026
Before Venture Shows Up | How Catalytic Capital Creates Women’s Health Markets
<p>In this episode of Blindspot Capital, Maryann sits down with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristinaljungberg/">Cristina Ljungberg</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-anderson-tcfh/">Wendy Anderson</a>, co-founders of <a target="_blank" href="https://thecaseforher.com/">The Case for Her</a>, to unpack what happens before venture capital shows up.</p><p>For 15 years, The Case for Her has deployed catalytic capital across menstruation, sexual wellness, and reproductive health to make markets legible enough for venture to follow.</p><p>What started with two women putting $5,000 each on a credit card to distribute menstrual cups evolved into one of the most catalytic platforms in global women’s health spanning grants, debt, equity, SAFE notes, research funding, product standards, and systems-level advocacy.</p><p>This conversation is not about philanthropy versus venture. It’s about how markets form, what it takes to fund the stigmatized. and it’s about why women’s health wasn’t “uninvestable” — it was structurally invisible.</p><p>This episode is a must-listen for investors looking upstream, founders building in taboo categories, and anyone trying to understand how capital shapes what becomes visible.</p><p><strong>We talk about:</strong></p><p>* Catalytic capital: why philanthropy, impact capital, and early-stage risk capital are often required before venture capital can enter a market</p><p>* The hidden infrastructure problem: how missing standards, regulations, and research can quietly block entire industries from forming</p><p>* Taboo as a market barrier: why menstruation, sexual health, and reproductive care have historically struggled to attract capital</p><p>* The pattern recognition gap: why investors often avoid women’s health simply because they have never invested in it before</p><p>This conversation offers a rare look at the earliest stage of market creation; the phase that happens long before venture capital arrives and long before headlines start calling a sector “the next big opportunity.”</p><p>If you want to understand where the next wave of women’s health innovation will come from, this episode is a powerful reminder: Markets don’t appear fully formed. They are built.</p><p>🎧 <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/Sluw9srcUaA"><strong>Watch the full episode on YouTube</strong></a></p><p>Learn more about <a target="_blank" href="https://thecaseforher.com/reports/"><strong>The Case for Her</strong></a> and catalytic capital in women’s health</p><p>🔎 Explore the <a target="_blank" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GGeOb0lnoyZStoxowqx8NN-5GtXCeL-r/view"><strong>SHIO study</strong></a> on menstrual product choice and market insights</p><p>And share this episode with founders, operators, and investors building in women’s health — because commercialization blind spots don’t fix themselves.</p><p>Join 19,000+ readers of <a target="_blank" href="https://femmehealthventures.substack.com/"><strong>The Billion Dollar Blindspot</strong></a> newsletter on Substack.</p><p>📌 <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/oVOyJQ-PwA4">Watch the full episode on YouTube</a></p><p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to The Billion Dollar Blindspot at <a href="https://www.billiondollarblindspot.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">www.billiondollarblindspot.com/subscribe</a>
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