Meet Natalie Spira, FemTech Collective Ambassador in San Diego
Interested in joining or supporting our new San Diego chapter? Connect with Natalie on our dedicated Slack Channel and learn more.
Natalie Spira is the Marketing Director of Tempdrop, a smart thermometer that takes the stress and guesswork out of fertility awareness. Natalie joined Tempdrop in 2016 and oversaw its growth from a hotly anticipated crowdfunded concept to a fertility awareness favorite. Before Tempdrop, Natalie worked at venture builder sFBI overseeing the growth of multiple B2C startups and graduated from Tel Aviv University with an MBA in marketing and entrepreneurship.
Natalie, we’re so excited to welcome you to the FemTech Collective team of Global Ambassadors, especially given your expertise in the FemTech industry. Can you share with us some of the current projects you’re working on at Tempdrop?
We’re in the process of launching on Amazon and FSAstore.com! We’re also about to release our first 40-page guide: “Intro to Fertility Awareness with Tempdrop.”
That’s really exciting, and it sounds like that will be a really useful guide for many. What are some of your other big achievements to date?
We launched in July 2017 and since then have shipped thousands of units, been featured in WIRED and other major pubs, and won Best of BabyTech at CES 2019. Best of all, we have a Facebook Group of 5000+ users that’s regularly sharing posts and stories with us around fertility awareness, body literacy, and pregnancy and we’ve become the preferred FemTech of educators and instructors in the space.
It sounds like you’ve found a lot of success with innovating in FemTech around the world, why is it important for you to support your FemTech community locally?
I am in love with FemTech and am crazy about all the new technologies coming out that serve women in unprecedented ways. Supporting the local FemTech community would give us the opportunity to uncover them and give them resources that they might not have known existed.
What are some of the challenges you see for FemTech entrepreneurs in San Diego?
I don’t know that FemTech challenges in San Diego are unique from anywhere else. All over the world, technology that serves the needs of women tends to get less attention than those that serve men. In San Diego, there are fewer resources than in the other US tech hubs, but it’s also continuously growing. I’m excited about the entrepreneurial scene in San Diego in general and what can be done specifically in FemTech.
Are there any unique opportunities for FemTech where you’re based?
In San Diego, there’s a big emphasis on biomedical and biotechnology and a large infrastructure to support companies in that space. I’m curious to understand how many of those companies could fall under the category of FemTech and how we can leverage that infrastructure.
What are your goals for the San Diego FemTech Collective chapter?
My first goal is to start connecting the dots and creating the foundation of a community. After that, it will be all about generating awareness in the startup space that FemTech in San Diego exists.
In your opinion, what does it mean to be for women in your local community?
It means tapping into those qualities that are considered feminine and using them for good to elevate each other: collaboration, cooperation, and kindness.
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