THE Operator’s Lens:
What It Actually Takes to Build in a Market the World Keeps Undervaluing
Most people who talk about women's health are commentators. Marissa is someone who has raised capital in rooms where she was told the market was too small, navigated FDA approvals for technology that didn't have a category, and bootstrapped a nonprofit like a startup because that's the only way it was going to survive.
In this keynote, she tells the real stories from 25 years of operating at the intersection of technology, capital, and women's health, including the funding bias she's experienced firsthand, the structural advantages that make this market so compelling, and what it looks like when an engineer decides to stop waiting for someone else to fix the problem.
Best for: Entrepreneurship and innovation events, women's leadership summits, medtech industry conferences, university and executive education programs.
An insider's view of the structural barriers keeping capital out of women's health, and how to navigate them
The case for why "market is too small" is both wrong and expensive
A practical lens for evaluating women's health as a business opportunity, not a philanthropic one