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Health in Hyperdrive with Dominic James#8 - Reimagining Women’s Health with Ethical AI for Everyone | Amber VodegelSend us a textIn this episode of Health in Hyperdrive, Dominic James sits down with Amber Vodegel, CEO of 28X and one of the most influential innovators in women’s digital health to explore how menstrual health tracking is being reimagined through ethical design, privacy‑first technology, and scalable models that serve not just the top 1% but the global majority.Menstrual health affects 1.8 billion people, yet 500 million still experience period poverty. This impacts education, employment, and wellbeing worldwide, with nearly two million girls in the UK missing school each year due to their periods. Digi...
2026-01-0751 min
The Start Up Support SurgeryEpisode #43 - Amber Vodegel: A Trailblazer in Health Tech, Creating A Platform That Empowers Women Worldwide In this episode of The Start Up Support Surgery, Jo chats with Amber, a dynamic entrepreneur and app developer, who shares her inspiring journey from finance to the world of mobile applications. Amber takes us back to her roots in a small Dutch village, recounting her transition from a finance career to the advertising industry, where she first encountered the burgeoning mobile app space. She reveals the early days of app development, the challenges she faced, and the lessons learned from her initial ventures, including the importance of not starting a business with friends. The conve...
2025-10-2736 min
Problems Worth SolvingAmber Vodegel: Designing for 150m global usersThe way we design health apps is shaping who stays healthy and who gets left behind.In this conversation, Amber Vodegel, founder of the world’s largest pregnancy app, Pregnancy Plus, and now CEO of 28x, challenges how women’s health technology is built, funded, and trusted.Amber argues that health knowledge shouldn’t sit behind a paywall or be traded for personal data. With around 800 million people menstruating every day, access and trust matter.She’s designing a different path: on-device AI that keeps data on your phone, content at multiple...
2025-09-0552 min
The Difference Engine | B2B Category Design | Private Equity | Venture Capital50. Interview with Amber Vodegel: Designing the new category of Ethical AIWelcome to the fourth in a series of interviews with European tech leaders brought to you in association with Boardwave. The Boardwave network is a powerful community of Founders, CEOs, Chairs, Independent NEDs & their Investors from across Europe, representing companies at every stage of development.This week, we are joined by tech entrepreneur Amber Vodegel. Born in the Netherlands and now based in the UK, Amber has built a career at the cutting edge of healthtech, creating tools that directly improve lives. As the founder of Pregnancy+, the world’s leading pregnancy app with over 150 million users, sh...
2025-06-1152 min
The Responsible Edge PodcastEpisode 89: Reinventing Women’s Health | How 28X is Building a New Model for Ethical TechIn an era where digital health solutions are booming, Amber Vodegel is proving that innovation doesn’t have to come at the cost of ethics. Speaking to The Responsible Edge podcast, Amber shared the remarkable story behind her new venture, 28X—a revolutionary period tracking app aiming to transform women’s health by putting data ownership, accessibility, and integrity at its core.🎙️ “We need to give women the power back over their own data,” Amber explained, detailing a blueprint for business that challenges the profit-first model dominating today’s tech landscape.
2025-04-2151 min
A Beginners Guide To Being A Grown UpE10- “I Had to Unlearn Who I Was Told to Be” – Amber Vodegel on Leading with CourageAmber is a Dutch/British entrepreneur, who founded several healthtech companies. As the founder of Pregnancy+, the world's leading pregnancy app with over 150 million users globally, Amber has revolutionised health tech.Bootstrapped and later acquired by Philips NV, Pregnancy+ stands as a testament to her relentless focus on customer-centricity and scalable impact. Powered by ML and deep analytics, it became the world’s leading pregnancy app globally. Amber is now spearheading 28X, a transformative FemTech initiative addressing systemic inequities in women’s health. By leveraging on-device AI, 28X provides inclusive, priva...
2025-02-1434 min
HealthTech HourEp106: Amber Vodegel, Founder of world's #1 Pregnancy App on her new venture 28X - aiming to disrupt the period tracking space and protect women from commercial exploitationIn this week's show, Steve Roest speaks to Amber Vodegel, who among other things founded the world's #1 Pregnancy App, Pregnancy +. Amber is am incredibly successful digital healthtech entrepreneur, with expertise in scaling health apps using AI and deep analytics, with a proven track record of building impactful digital health solutions. Her latest venture, 28X, focuses on menstrual health education—an AI-powered, free-to-use, privacy-safe platform aiming to revolutionise women's health, especially for the vulnerable in our society. She wants to disrupt the period tracking space that is dominated by major venture capital-backed corporations who sh...
2024-11-0557 min
Startup SensationsTransforming Women's Health: A Fascinating Journey of InnovationS3 Ep12 - Amber Vodegel - For the final episode of Season 3, step into the world of women's health technology with Amber Vodegel, a visionary entrepreneur on a mission to revolutionise global health, particularly in women's wellness. In this captivating episode, Amber shares her inspiring journey in the tech world, driven by her ambition to make a significant impact on women's health worldwide.Discover how Amber's groundbreaking work in integrating technology with women's health has led to the remarkable growth of her Pregnancy Plus app, now guiding 2 million women daily. Gain insights into the importance of cultural...
2024-04-0236 min