Beats

The category, by beat.

Eight beats organize everything The Index covers — signals, research, market maps, organizations. Pick a beat to enter its dedicated intelligence hub.

Hormonal

Hormonal

The diagnostics, therapeutics, clinics, and data forming around hormonal health across the female lifespan — from adolescence to menopause.

7 signals
  • JAHA: Perimenopausal women 2x more likely to have poor cardiovascular health scores
  • Midi Health raises $100M Series D, hits unicorn status for virtual peri/menopause care
  • Hims & Hers launches menopause and perimenopause specialty on Hers, targeting $1B Hers revenue in 2026
Fertility

Fertility

At-home diagnostics, vertically integrated clinics, employer benefits, and the capital reshaping how people build families.

8 signals
  • Daré Bioscience receives FDA clearance of IND for Phase 2 DARE-HPV trial
  • Gameto licenses Harvard meiosis-induction IP, advances human ovary-in-a-dish platform
  • F&S Reports: Only 29% of Gen Z women correctly estimate IVF success rates at 35
Maternal

Maternal

Pregnancy, postpartum, and the care infrastructure being rebuilt around the most under-resourced transition in healthcare.

14 signals
  • Cayaba Care rebrands to Nadia Care, raises $12M to scale Medicaid maternal care in DC, MD, TN
  • CDC NCHS: U.S. maternal mortality rate 17.9 per 100,000 live births in 2024 (down from 18.6)
  • Withings and Babyscripts partner for real-time RPM of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
Cardio

Cardio

Cardiometabolic health, GLP-1 companion services, and the female-specific risk biology long missing from cardiac care.

10 signals
  • WeightWatchers integrates Zepbound vials via LillyDirect pharmacy for member access
  • AHA Circulation 2025 Go Red issue calls for mandatory sex-disaggregated cardiovascular data
  • Calibrate's 4th annual results report: members achieve 19% avg weight loss over 3 years via GLP-1 + ILI
Diagnostics

Diagnostics

The on-ramp to the rest of the stack — at-home, in-clinic, and longitudinal diagnostics rewiring how women enter the system.

5 signals
  • BrightHeart raises €11M Series A to scale AI prenatal ultrasound
  • AOA Dx reports 94.8% sensitivity for early-stage ovarian cancer in peer-reviewed publication
  • Evvy surpasses 75,000 patients and 2,000 providers; launches at-home clinical care program
Mental health

Mental health

Mood, hormonal-cognitive interplay, and the clinical infrastructure forming around women's mental and behavioral health.

11 signals
  • Spring Health to acquire Alma, expanding precision mental-health access to 23,000+ therapists
  • FamilyWell Health closes $8M Series A for integrated women's mental health care
  • Seven Starling raises $8M led by Rethink Impact to expand maternal MH to 30+ states by 2026
Longevity

Longevity

Female aging biology, biomarkers, and the clinics, research centers, and capital rebuilding longevity around female physiology.

11 signals
  • Oura launches hormonal birth-control support & menopause insights, closing wearable data gap for women
  • ŌURA raises over $900M at ~$11B valuation, led by Fidelity
  • TruDiagnostic awarded NIH SBIR grant to build W-Function Epigenomic Roadmap
Care infra

Care infra

Clinics, employer benefits, data layers, and operator infrastructure connecting the women's health stack end-to-end.

8 signals
  • Origin secures Series B led by SJF Ventures to scale 19-clinic pelvic-floor PT network nationally
  • Transcarent adds Maven, Midi, Progyny to its Experience Store for employer women's health
  • BCBS Global Solutions partners with Carrot Fertility to deliver international fertility benefits