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November 27, 2025

Building femtech with customer buy-in: Inside Daya's contrarian playbook

Founded two years ago, this venture studio aims to build femtech startups that solve real issues in women’s health


Mimi Billing

4 min read

Daya Ventures' leadership team.

Gothenburg-based venture studio Daya has raised more than €600k through a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs to build a cohort of deeptech startups focused on women's health.

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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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