Period tracking app Flo released its previously announced anonymous mode, which the company said will allow users to access the app without associating their name, email address and technical identifiers with their health data.
Flo partnered with security firm Cloudflare to build the new feature and released a white paper detailing its technical specifications. Anonymous mode has been localized...
UPDATE JUNE 30
Less than a week after Flo tweeted about its plans to launch an "anonymous mode" to its period-tracking app, the company revealed the new feature will be available in the coming weeks.
Flo said users will be able to enter anonymous mode through the iOS and Android app settings, allowing them to use it without personal email, name and technical identifiers. If the company receives "...
Period-tracking app Flo closed a $50 million Series B financing round, bringing the company’s valuation to $800 million.
The round was led by VNV Global and Target Global. London-based Flo said the latest round brings its total raise to $65 million.
Flo said it will use the capital to improve personalization and give users more advanced insights into their cycles and symptoms. The company also...
This morning Palta, a London-based startup that helps cofound and build digital health companies, landed $100 million in Series B funding. Per Brilioth at VNV Global led the round with participation from Target Global and other existing and new investors.
WHAT IT DOES
Palta’s portfolio companies include Flo, maker of a women’s health app, Simple, a digital behavioral health and nutrition tool,...
Period and fertility-tracking-app maker Flo Health has settled with the Federal Trade Commission regarding a complaint alleging improper disclosure of sensitive user data to third-party marketing and analytics services from Facebook, Google and others, the agency announced today.
The FTC's complaint listed several ways in which Flo deceived its users. These included messaging from the company...
This morning Flo Health, an AI-enabled women's health platform, announced that it closed a $12 million Series A Extension funding round led by Mangrove Capital Partners, with participation from Flint Capital and Haxus. The company plans to use the new money for the startup’s next growth phase, as well as product improvement.
The Redwood City, California-based startup is focused on women’s health...
AI-driven women’s health platform Flo has raised $5 million in a Series A funding round, led by Flint Capital, which, along with Haxus Fund, tossed in $1 million in seed round funding in December 2016.
Other investors in the Series A round include Natalia Vodianova, a supermodel and social activist who also joined the company’s board of directors, as well as a handful of angel investors.
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While the shift to value-based care has driven digital health innovation overall, the tech-enabled advances haven’t necessarily touched every...
San Francisco-based OW Health, women's health-focused digital health company that makes digital health app Flo, has raised $1 million seed funding in a round led by Flint Capital and Haxus Venture Fund. The funding will allow the company to expand use of the app globally as well as the develop machine learning required for the app to evolve into a personal health and wellness assistant for women...
MobiHealthNews' last crowdfunding roundup wasn't too long ago, but there are already a number of new digital health apps and devices on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Read on below for a smart water bottle and a smart baby bottle, PERS and PHRs, an activity tracker for swimming, an app for anxiety, and more.
Flo
Flo is a smartphone-connected noncontact thermometer. Like Withings’ recently-announced...