Christina Farr

1 week ago | secondopinion.media | Christina Farr

Health-tech companies used to turn to a tried-and-tested solution to grow: Google and Facebook. Paid marketing was the fuel to stoke the proverbial fire to demonstrate the rapid scaling that all VCs love to see on pitch decks. That all has changed with how expensive it’s become to advertise on these social media platforms, and investors are no longer willing to back companies that are highly reliant on this form of ad-based, paid acquisition.

1 week ago | secondopinion.media | Christina Farr

I’m frantically reading as I just spotted Omada’s S1! Happy Friday, digital health nerds. This would mark Omada as the second major digital health company to file for an IPO this year after Hinge Health. Some highlights before I follow up with more detail and a takeaway: — Revenue is strong and growing, particularly in the last couple of years as the company has moved from selling pre-diabetes to pre-diabetes and diabetes to employers and health plans (diabetes has a higher ARPU).

1 week ago | secondopinion.media | Leah Rosenbaum |Christina Farr

As women entering our late thirties (Chrissy) and early forties (Leslie), one of the big questions we’ve been grappling with lately is how menopause should be categorized. It’s a hectic life stage for most women due to family, work and caregiving responsibilities. And for some lucky women, light in terms of menopause symptoms. For others, it represents something closer to an experience of a disease, given the physiological changes that women experience and the fluctuations in hormones.

2 weeks ago | mondaq.com | Christina Farr

Manatt Health Managing Director Christina Farr was featured in MicrosoftResearch's podcast, "The AI Revolution in Medicine,Revisited: Empowering patients and healthcare consumers in the ageof generative AI," where she discussed how artificialintelligence is reshaping health care in terms of patientempowerment, the evolution of digital health-startup ecosystems,and consumer trends, including the rise of cash-pay healthcare. Learn more and listen to the full episode here.

2 weeks ago | secondopinion.media | Christina Farr |Leslie Ziegler Schrock

This post is Part III of a three-part series by Carolyn Witte (Founder of Tia Health) and Leslie Schrock co-published on Second Opinion and The XX Factor to help women’s health founders raise money in the rapidly growing but still nascent women’s health category. Our goal is to offer a practical, founder-first framework to help you decide if, when, and how to raise venture—and what to do if that’s not the best path for you.