Our Funding Approach

Powering the next wave
in women’s health through ideas, funding, and partnerships.

Capital—from philanthropy to market-rate investment—can address gaps, drive
innovation, and generate both social impact and competitive return.
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Where ideas, capital, and collaboration converge to move women’s health forward.

Our Funding Opportunities marketplace will streamline
engagement amongst organizations and investors.

Opportunity Ripe for Investment and Impact

Historically, health systems have not prioritized research, funding, and innovation for women; therefore, many promising advances fail to scale and reach broader markets — we need different funding pathways to scale innovations and improve market access.

85%

of US women live in a county with low access to mammograms

6%

of private healthcare investment funds women’s health.

$100 Billion +

in tracked women’s health exit value since 2020. An increasing opportunity, no longer a niche category.

Flexible, low-cost capital that accelerates innovation and scales market access

Target Program

$50M Evergreen Fund

Sector Focus

Women’s Health (Across the Spectrum)

Type of Capital

Grants, No- & Low- Cost Loans, Low-cost equity.

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Mobilizing $1 Billion in New Capital for Women’s Health

Expanding investor access to women-led health funds and catalyzing new funds to enter the space.

Target Program

Leveraging the Milken Institute’s convening platform to connect capital with funds and innovations.

Sector Focus

Women's Health (across the spectrum)

Type of Capital

Commercial capital across investors from retail to institutional.

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How We Work

Collaboration from the public and private sectors is necessary for optimal and equitable change.

The Network provides companies with business, operational, and financial resources to magnify impact—creating new funding opportunities and enabling smoother integration of innovations into health systems.

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Capital to support researchers, community organizations, industry partners, and innovators.

Member access into investment trends insights, market projections, opportunities, and political and regulatory landscape.

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Catalyze innovation to accelerate the path to scale and impact.

An ecosystem to - share ideas, create new or accelerate diagnostics, treatments, increase capacity to reach underserved populations-maximizing impact for women to lead healthier lives.

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