Interactive world map of femtech & women's health innovation — 339 cited initiatives across 154 countries, deep on Africa & the Global South. Community-sourced, open to contributors.
# Global Femtech Map
An interactive world map of **femtech and women's health innovation** — the startups, apps, clinics, NGOs, funds and communities building better care for women, everywhere.
It began as a response to women's-health maps that leave most of the world blank. This one aims for the opposite: **339 cited initiatives across 154 countries**, with deep, deliberate coverage of Africa and the Global South that most maps overlook, and every continent represented.
Founders featured on the Blush & Bloom podcast carry a 🎙 badge linking their episode.
> Built by Gigi Kenneth — founder of Asele and host of Blush & Bloom.
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## What's on the map
- **339 initiatives · 154 countries · 6 continents**
- Six categories: **menstrual & cycle**, **maternal & fertility**, **sexual & reproductive health**, **diagnostics & devices**, **telehealth**, and **funding & community**
- Real startups where they exist; where a country has no verifiable femtech company, its national **UNFPA women's-health programme** stands in, so no country with active work sits empty
- Every single pin cites a **source URL**
## Features
- **Explore by country** — click any country to focus the map to it and list every initiative mapped there; the stat cards recalculate to that country
- **Click a pin** for a detail panel: description, category, location, link, source, and (for podcast guests) the episode
- **Filter** by category, search initiatives/countries, or isolate the 🎙 Blush & Bloom founders
- **Zoom** spreads out dense city clusters so individual dots stay legible
- Editorial landing hero, accessible colour/typography, responsive down to mobile (detail panel becomes a bottom sheet)
## Tech stack
Plain **Vanilla JS + Vite + d3-geo**. No backend, no database — an art-directed SVG world map with data in editable JSON files.
```bash
npm install
npm run dev # local dev server
npm run build # production build → dist/ (also prerenders reports + SEO files)
npm run preview # pre …