Ida Tin Explained

Ida Tin
Birth Date:28 May 1979
Birth Place:Copenhagen, Denmark
Alma Mater:Kaospilot
Occupation:Internet entrepreneur
Known For:Co-founder and CEO of Clue
Website:Clue official website

Ida Tin (born 28 May 1979[1]) is a Danish internet entrepreneur and author who is the co-founder and CEO of the women's menstruation-tracking app, Clue.[2] [3] [4] She is credited with coining the term "femtech".[5] [6]

Early life and education

Tin was born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark. She graduated from the Danish alternative business school, Kaospilot.[4] [7]

Career

Prior to founding Clue, Tin ran a motorcycle tour company based in Denmark with her father.[4] She was with the company for five years and toured locations like Vietnam, the United States, Cuba, Chile, and Mongolia.[3] She later released a book about her experiences called Direktøs which became a Danish bestseller.[8]

In 2013, Tin co-founded the Clue app with Hans Raffauf, Moritz von Buttlar, and Mike LaVigne in Berlin, Germany.[9] Tin began formulating an idea for the app in 2009 as a way to track her own menstrual and fertility cycle.[2] [10] In mid-2015, the app had around 1 million active users.[11] In October 2015, the company raised $7 million in a funding round led by Union Square Ventures and Mosaic Ventures, bringing the total amount of funding up to $10 million.[12]

By November of that year, the number of active users had risen to 2 million representing over 180 countries.[13] In late 2015, Tin worked with Apple to help them develop their own period tracking software for their HealthKit platform.[14] Also in 2015, Tin was named the Female Web Entrepreneur of the Year at the Slush Conference.[15]

In 2016, Tin was credited for coining the term "femtech" to refer to technology designed for women's health.[16] The term to referred to technology that addressed needs related to fertility, period-tracking, pregnancy, menopause and more.

In September 2016, Tin spoke at the TechCrunch Disrupt event in San Francisco on the topic of analytics in women's health.[17] [18] Two months later, Clue raised an additional $20 million in a funding round led by Nokia Growth Partners.[19] [20] In 2016 and 2017, Tin helped introduce new features to the app, including cycle-sharing and pill-tracking.[21] In 2017, Tin announced that Clue was working on adding features to serve app users going through menopause.[22] By 2018, Clue had 10 million users in 190 countries.

Personal life

Tin lives in Berlin. Her ex-partner (and fellow Clue co-founder) is Hans Raffauf whom she has two children with, Elliot and Eleanor.[2] [8]

Notes and References

  1. idatin . Ida Tin . 334487936471027712 . 14 May 2013 . Female #astronaut Karen Nyberg taking off on (my birthday) May 28 to the International Space Station #ISS.
  2. News: Gering. Jeanny. The health app that hopes to empower women . BBC. 18 November 2015 . 28 February 2017.
  3. News: Reynolds. Emily. No pink, no flowers, just science: Clue's Ida Tin on the period-tracking app . . 24 January 2017 . 28 February 2017.
  4. Price. Susan. How This Period Tracking App Is Helping Scientists Fight Disease . Fortune. 14 December 2015 . 28 February 2017.
  5. News: Magistretti. Bérénice. The rise of femtech: women, technology, and Trump . VentureBeat. 5 February 2017 . 28 February 2017.
  6. News: Hinchliffe. Emma. Why 2016 was a huge year for women's health tech . Mashable. 29 December 2016 . 28 February 2017.
  7. News: Li. Charmaine. A close-up of Clue, the startup that aims to help women make sense of their fertility cycle . Tech.eu. 5 September 2014 . 28 February 2017.
  8. News: Krishnan. Sriram. Ida Tin: Adventurer & Entrepreneur . The Huffington Post. 10 May 2016 . 28 February 2017.
  9. News: Rosbrow-Telem. Laura. For women tracking their fertility, only a few apps can help. Geektime. 25 October 2016. 28 February 2017. 3 March 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170303201337/http://www.geektime.com/2016/10/25/for-women-tracking-their-fertility-only-a-few-apps-can-help/. dead.
  10. News: Svane Baltzer . Lisa . CEO i Clue Ida Tin: "Både mænd og kvinder er bedre, når de samarbejder" . da . TrendsOnline . 22 March 2016 . 28 February 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170304040753/http://trendsonline.dk/en/2016/03/22/ceo-i-clue-ida-tin-baade-maend-og-kvinder-er-bedre-nar-de-samarbejder/ . 4 March 2017 . dead .
  11. News: McGoogan. Cara. The period-tracking app helping women and scientists understand cycles . . 11 June 2016 . 28 February 2017.
  12. News: Lomas. Natasha. Period Tracker App Clue Gets $7M To Build A Platform For Female Health . TechCrunch. 9 October 2015 . 28 February 2017.
  13. News: Rabin. Roni Caryn. How Period Trackers Have Changed Girl Culture . The New York Times. 12 November 2015 . 28 February 2017.
  14. Web site: Cook. James. German period tracking app Clue has over 2.5 million active users — but it's still not sure how it's going to make money . Business Insider. 9 January 2016 . 28 February 2017.
  15. Handy statt Hormone: Clue-CEO Ida Tin über Health Tracking & moderne Verhütung. Rank. Elisabeth. 5 January 2016. 28 February 2017. Wired. de. 3 March 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170303204211/https://www.wired.de/collection/tech/ida-tin-von-clue-will-verhuetung-ohne-hormone-mit-dem-handy-ermoeglichen. dead.
  16. Web site: Women Investing in Women's Health: The Rise of Femtech Companies and Investors in Celebration of Women's History Month Lexology. Baker. Gabriel. Hostetler LLP-Jessie M.. www.lexology.com. en. 2019-05-03. Ravi. Tara. 19 March 2019 .
  17. News: Escher. Anna. Ida Tin to speak on bringing analytics to female health at Disrupt SF . TechCrunch. 16 August 2016 . 28 February 2017.
  18. News: Kolodny. Lora. Health tech founders call for high ethical bar for use of women's intimate data . TechCrunch. 13 September 2016 . 28 February 2017.
  19. News: Kharpal. Arjun. Nokia VC arm invests in an app that tracks women's menstrual cycles in $20 million funding raise . CNBC. 30 November 2016 . 28 February 2017.
  20. News: O'Brien. Chris. Female fertility app Clue raises $20 million in round led by Nokia Growth Partners . VentureBeat. 30 November 2016 . 28 February 2017.
  21. Web site: Ida Tin leads the femtech revolution with health app Clue. www.europeanceo.com. en-US. 2019-04-18.
  22. Web site: The menopause is on our roadmap, says Clue's Ida Tin. TechCrunch. en-US. 2019-04-18.

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