Women's Health Isn't a Charity. It's a $400B Market.

Women’s health does not have an awareness problem. It has an infrastructure and capital problem. Takin’ Care of Lady Business Episode 174 Anna Samuelsson knows exactly what happens when a market is treated like a niche instead of an investment opportunity. As Managing Director and Partner at Factory Capital, she is working to make women’s health an investible category by building the infrastructure needed to move real capital into it.  In this episode of Takin’ Care of Lady Business, Jennifer Justice sits down with Anna to unpack the business mechanics behind the women’s health gap and how Anna’s own experience being dismissed by doctors exposed a much larger problem in research, care, and investment. That realization led Factory Capital to fund the Institute Advancing Women’s Health, a nonprofit designed to bring global medical expertise together, translate research into treatment pathways, and make the category strong enough for more capital to follow. Anna also explains why a private investment firm would put its own money behind that infrastructure, why doing good and doing well are not competing ideas, and why building an entirely new system sometimes starts with one question: what can we move forward this week? What You'll Learn Why women’s health needs investment infrastructure, not just more awareness How research and evidence can make an overlooked category more investible Why Factory Capital chose to fund a nonprofit alongside its for-profit investments What Anna’s approach reveals about turning an enormous systemic problem into something investors can act on Highlights: (00:00) Meet Anna Samuelsson (01:31) Building Factory Capital around overlooked investment categories (04:23) Being dismissed by doctors exposed a larger system failure (06:57) The infrastructure women’s health is still missing (09:09) Building the evidence that makes women’s health investable (13:25) Closing the research gaps holding women’s health back (15:24) Putting Factory Capital’s own money behind the mission (17:25) Bringing global experts together around women’s health (18:51) Building better care pathways across fragmented specialties (22:01) Building the team behind the Institute Advancing Women’s Health (26:22) Why more capital needs to enter women’s health (33:17) Why the institute needed to be nonprofit About Our Guest:Anna Samuelsson is Managing Director and Partner at Factory Capital, a private investment firm spanning health, education, lifestyle, and technology. A former Goldman Sachs executive, she now focuses on women’s health and expanding institutional investment in the category. She also helped establish the Institute Advancing Women’s Health, a nonprofit bringing together medical, research, and business leaders to improve women’s health research, training, and care globally. Anna Samuelsson’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaburton/ Explore Factory Capital: https://factorycapital.net/  Explore The Institute Advancing Women's Health: https://www.inawh.org/  About Jennifer Justice and The Justice Dept. JJ’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-justice-354a0b99 The Justice Dept: https://www.thejusticedept.com/ JJ’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jenniferjusticel/  Newsletter: https://tkolb-newsletter-a50814.beehiiv.com/ JJ’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TakinCareOfLadyBusiness  The Justice Dept. is a female-focused advisory, consulting, and law firm advocating for female founders, talent, execs, and brands. We represent bo$$ ladies to make them 💰💰. If you love what you hear, please subscribe and share with a friend. This is a Lady Business LLC Production.