Women experience higher rates of chronic diseases, autoimmune disorders and mental health conditions, and issues related to reproduction and menopause add to the greater healthcare needs of women. The field of women’s health is predicted to grow sharply, with a focus on startups catering to aging women with chronic high-cost conditions like cardiovascular disease (women have a 20% higher chance than men of dying within five years of a heart attack), neurological disease (two-thirds of Alzheimer’s patients are women) and bone disease (women have more osteoporosis and fracture risk than men).