Femtech

As well as companies selling menstrual protection, the femtech sector includes fertility apps, maternal health and sexual wellbeing products.

The current major players in the femtech industry - period apps - have demonstrated that it is profitable to target women and gather their data.

With $800m of funding going to the femtech startups in 2019 alone, there couldn’t be a better time for ohne to enter the market.

The scientific study of perimenopause has been going on for decades, and the cultural discussion of this mind and body shift has reached something of a new fever pitch, with several books on the subject coming out this spring and a gaggle of “femtech” companies vowing to disrupt perimenopause.

Mr. Thiel, who once suggested women’s suffrage was bad for America, did not seem like a natural investor in femtech.