Maternova: Tools and Ideas That Improve Maternal and Neonatal Health
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Meg Wirth, CEOhttp://[email protected]
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Maternova is the first online global marketplace for tools equipping frontline childbirth providers
http://maternova.net
2 million mothers and infants die in childbirth each year
14 million nurses and midwives need rapid access to innovative
life-saving tools
• Progress is in reducing maternal/newborn death is too slow yet simple tools exist, more every month
• Why? Lack of awareness; Market is highly fragmented; Barriers of price and volume
• Needed: an accelerator to quickly move innovation to end users
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Problem Statement
We make it easy for doctors, nurses & midwives to track innovation and to buy pre-bundled tools to save maternal/newborn lives overseas
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Our Mission
Business focus: Maternova is building the first aggregator that accelerates innovation in the global maternal/newborn health industry We find and test new and existing technologies We market and sell life-saving products for developing world and emerging markets
Target Customers: Globetrotting clinicians International Organizations Governments
Online Social Network: 30,000 unique visitors 170 countries
Founded: May 2009Headquarters: Providence, RI
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Company Snapshot
We are about moving global maternal and newborn care into the 21st century.
New groups-- industrial designers, entrepreneurs, engineers-- are increasingly interested in the power of simple innovations to change lives.
Maternova seeks to build on these seismic changes, to amplify their positive effect on women and their families.
Two very basic questions guide our work. What effective, low-cost tools (in development or on the market) can
save mothers' and newborns' lives in low-resource settings? How can these tools be accessed and distributed?
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What do we do?
Life Saving Technologies for Mothers
Life Saving Technologies for Infants
Newly trained midwives in Haiti using a Maternova kit
Priority: Get innovations to cliniciansPack & Bundle Innovations
Rapidly sell, distribute & reiterate
Strategic PartnershipsStrategy is to partner with groups already
distributing in 80+ countries
A sustainable business 22 early customers, repeat customers Cash flow positive in 2013
Thank you to for your inspired commitment to simple technologies. We will be buying more from you! –customer
Maternova momentum:
Meg Wirth CEO, global health technology expert, Harvard BA, Princeton MPA Karin Kroh COO, prior startup experienceRob Panoff VP Sales & Marketing, RPM Associates, Excel Switching, Harvard MBA
Business Advisors:
Alec Karys TechStars mentor, CEO at Genesis, formerly Amazon.com Michael Putnam TripAdvisor mobile, Zeer, Harvard MBACasey Santiago Emerging Markets Group; formerly with kiva.org, Columbia MBA Elizabeth Bailey Principal, Commons Capital, Harvard Kennedy SchoolPhil Holberton Speaking of Leadership
Global Health Advisors:
Eli Adashi, MD Ob/Gyn; former Dean of Brown Medical School Hilary Mason Computer Scientist with bit.lyCarolyn Hart Logistics, JSI Julian Atim, MD, MPH Uganda Health Marketing GroupJorge Tolosa, MD Director, Global Network for Perinatal and Reproductive Health (GNPRH). Dorcas Kamanda MSN Catholic Relief Services, Founder, NarSarah Clinic in Sierra LeoneMary Jo Terrill, RN Midwife, Network4Africa Steve Lutterbeck Director, PSI in India, Benin, Mali, Burkina Faso
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Building a strong team in business and global health
Meg Wirth, [email protected]: @maternovahttp://maternova.net