Scaling Growth For Women’s Health
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Being a start-up in the women's health and menstrual hygiene sector is like surviving a system stacked against you.
You face a multitude of barriers— fragmented supply chains, high go-to-market costs, and a lack of credible distribution and market advisory. Without the right infrastructure and partnerships, there is a struggle to meet daily operations, let alone grow efficiently and reach full potentia
Costs are particularly daunting for early-stage companies with limited resources and funding
Next, managing financials, marketing, legal, and regulatory compliance often requires multiple, disconnected platforms—draining time and resources.
Startups must assess and engage with experts across critical areas, but without prior experience, choosing the right partners can be overwhelming.
Introducing NEST
Your Partner in Success
NEST (Nuture, Enclose & Secure, Trade) is 149 Technologies’ shared services and distribution methodology designed to help start-ups in women's health and menstrual hygiene scale efficiently.
By providing structured support, strategic partnerships, playbooks and cost-saving solutions we reduce administrative burdens, foster essential partnerships, and provide structured access to technology platforms.
Whether it’s helping you navigate legal requirements, secure distribution channels, or reduce operational costs, NEST is here to accelerate your growth.
HOW NEST SOLVES THE PROBLEM
Nurture
We enable women's health start-ups to enter markets faster through shared services, access to curated experts, and playbooks that drop the cost for interacting with the ecosystem of players.
Enclose & Secure
We offer women's health start-ups distribution, licensing, and pathways to new markets. We also facilitate the delivery of covenants to impact funders by helping the start-up fulfil those commitments into low-to-middle income markets.
Trade
Funding remains a major challenge for women's health innovators. Our low-cost GENAI tool streamlines funding identification, helping start-ups find the right investors, collaborators, and markets faster.
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Legal Advisory
Market Playbooks
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Distribution Networks
Marketing & Strategy
Certifications
Tax Advisory
Competitive Analysis
Product Engineering
Data & Analytics
Market Access
Your Mission Deserves Momentum
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Empowering The Changemakers
We have aggregated best-in-class partners, providing effective coordination, and lowering cost of execution through playbooks
- Start-up operational Low-cost Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software and configuration (e.g. Customer Resource Management, Invoicing, Order-to-Cash, Project planning, website development, ecommerce development, manufacturing planning, payroll management, etc.)
- Distribution and Logistics
- Regulatory / product registration support including FDA registration (name countries - US, Canada, ….)
- Contract Manufacturing
- Product and Marketing Strategy
- Digital marketing
- Financial Services (incl. U.S. Tax management, transfer pricing services)
- We are addressing a women's health journey from menstruation to menopause and beyond. We are most interested in:
- low cost solutions or solutions appropriate for low-resource cost settings; or
- Solutions that provide increased quality for the same or lower cost as current competing solutions.
- United States, Singapore, India and we will expand shortly into other markets in SE Asia and Africa
- Some of our partners operate beyond these markets, so reach out to us for a quick chat.