January Update: Momentum In Women’s Health
January has kicked off strong. We are starting the year with funding in place, new ways to support our work, and a Women’s Health innovation challenge kicking off. January highlights below.
1 million DKK to accelerate women’s health
Earlier this month, we shared some big news that will help us take our work even further in 2026.
We have received 1 million DKK from Industriens Fond to strengthen women’s health as a coordinated innovation and business field.
It gives us both the mandate and the muscle to do what the field has needed for a long time: Build shared infrastructure that connects research, companies, investors and decision-makers - and turns knowledge into action.
Because the challenge in women’s health has never been a lack of ideas or ambition.
It has been fragmentation.
Women’s health represents a billion-dollar market with enormous potential. But until now, that potential has largely lived across silos. With this funding, we can move from fragmented efforts to a shared direction.
Want to do more than just follow the conversation?
We have opened up for our community membership - a way to actively support the work and help push women’s health forward across the Nordics.
It is an annual contribution, and it only costs about the same as a cup of coffee a month.
What it supports is much bigger: Visibility, momentum and real change in a field that has been underprioritised for far too long.
Community members get priority access to selected initiatives, insights, reports and events - and to publicly stand behind women’s health.
👉 Do you want to help move the field forward? Join the community here
Student membership is available at a reduced rate.
Bringing Women’s Health into Open Innovation
We are taking part in Open Innovation with a dedicated Women’s Health challenge.
No spoilers yet - but this is a clear sign that women’s health is finally moving into the spaces where new ideas and future solutions take shape. The programme brings together leading innovation environments and universities across Denmark, including DTU Skylab, Actory, Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship, DTU, University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School.
The challenge is developed in collaboration with partners across health, industry and society, including the Danish Cancer Society’s Prevention Lab, Lidl, Region H and Lundbeck.
The programme runs throughout February and culminates in a final on February 26. Curious? We will share updates on LinkedIn.
Looking back
2025 was the year things really started to move for us. We welcomed our new CEO, watched rooms fill up at our events, and were lucky enough to celebrate our first anniversary along the way.
What’s next
More initiatives, more data and clearer ways to engage are already in motion.
Coming up is a new recurring format spotlighting one important player each month: Investor or Startup of the Month.
Thank you for following the work - more to come.
