MedCity News August 2, 2022
Digital health startup Lisa Health recently launched Midday, an app it co-developed with Mayo Clinic to help women navigate menopause. The Oakland-based company also announced the close of its $2.5 million oversubscribed seed round led by Radical Ventures.
Each day in the U.S., about 6,000 women reach menopause. More than 75% of these women experience uncomfortable symptoms like hot flashes, which usually last between seven and nine years.
Oftentimes, women feel like there are no treatments for the physical and emotional changes they experience during this life stage, so they opt to silently tough it out, according to Ann Garnier, CEO of Lisa Health. To address this problem, she co-founded the Oakland-based company with chief scientific officer Massimiliano de Zambotti....