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A Nova Scotia family physician and mother of four who personally could not use hormonal birth control has raised an oversubscribed $1.1M pre-seed, on the back of sheep-validated data and an Organon accelerator stint, to advance a patent-pending copper vaginal ring for monthly, self-removable, non-hormonal contraception.
Elle MD Technologies develops the Livv Ring, a user-insertable and removable silicone-and-copper vaginal ring for once-monthly non-hormonal contraception that interferes locally with sperm fertilization as an alternative to systemic hormones or clinic-inserted IUDs.