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Episode: 200 - Ridhi Tariyal on Bridging the Data Gap in Women’s Health
46 minutes Posted Oct 21, 2025 at 12:00 pm.
Meet Ridge Tariel & Origin Story
From Engineering to Biomed Entrepreneurship
The Women’s Health Data Gap
Why a Startup, Not Academia
Designing At‑Home Menstrual Collection
Fundraising Reality and Seed Thesis
Business Models: Cash Pay vs Reimbursement
Pharma’s DTC Shift and Diagnostics
The Data Stack: RNA, DNA, Microbiome
Female‑Specific Labels Unlock Signal
From Diagnosis to Drug Development
Menstruation as an Inflammation Model
Capital Constraints and Timeline Tradeoffs
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The data gap in women’s health has always been a major issue and challenge. Ridhi Tariyal, CEO and co-founder of NextGen Jane, is on a mission to de-risk the women’s health field and fill in the blanks with critical information and research. Host Swaril Mathur speaks with Tariyal on how NextGen Jane is collecting data through menstrual blood to make diagnoses and treatments easier. Tariyal also shares advice on the pros and cons of going the cash-pay consumer route and pitching the right busi...