Ida Tin

Ida Tin 2016 at re: publica

Ida Tin (* 1979 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish entrepreneur and writer. She is co-founder and managing director of the menstrual app Clue and subsequently coined the term Femtech . In 2015 she was named Internet Entrepreneur of the Year at the Slush Conference.

Life

Ida Tin was born in 1979 in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen. With her parents Nina Rasmussen and Hjalte Tin and her older brother Emil Tin, she has toured several countries on a motorcycle. She has a degree in project and process management from the renowned and creative business school Kaospilot in Aarhus.

Ida Tin lives in Berlin with her partner and Clue co-founder Hans Raffauf and their children Elliot and Eleanor.

Career

Together with her father, Ida Tin worked for Moto Mundo, a tour operator for motorcycle trips. In the years 2000 to 2009 she organized tours in Vietnam , the USA , Cuba , Chile and Mongolia, among others . In her book Direktøs , published by Rosinante Verlag in 2009 , she told of her travel experiences. The book became a bestseller in Denmark.

In 2013, Tin founded the menstrual app Clue in Berlin together with Hans Raffauf, Moritz von Buttlar and Mike LaVigne . The idea for the app came up in 2009 when Tin was looking for a way to follow her own cycle. In mid-2015, around one million people were using the app. In October 2015, Clue received $ 7 million in funding from Union Square Ventures and Mosaic Ventures.

In November 2015, two million people from 180 countries used the Clue app. At the end of the year, Ida Tin is also working with Apple on the development of a tracking app for Apple's own health app Health . In September 2016, Ida Tin spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco on the subject of data analysis in the field of women-specific health issues. Two months later, Clue received an additional $ 20 million in funding from Nokia Growth Partners.

The term Femtech is attributed to Ida Tin - a technology that takes into account the biological needs of women. It is expected to be worth $ 50 billion by 2025.

Works

• Direktøs (2009)

Web links

• Literature by and about Ida Tin in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Clue app

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bérénice Magistretti: The rise of femtech: women, technology, and Trump. February 5, 2017, accessed April 14, 2018 . 
2. ↑ The Copenhagen Post - Danish News in English. Accessed April 14, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Tin, Ida - Kvindestes Blåbog. (No longer available online.) February 22, 2014, archived from the original on February 22, 2014 ; accessed on April 14, 2018 (Danish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Company. In: helloclue. Retrieved September 27, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Sriram Krishnan: Ida Tin: Adventurer & Entrepreneur. In: Huffington Post. May 10, 2016. Retrieved April 14, 2018 (American English). 
6. ^ Jeanny Gering: The health app that hopes to empower women. November 18, 2015, accessed April 14, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Emily Reynolds: No pink, no flowers, just science: Clue's Ida Tin on the period-tracking app. January 24, 2017, accessed on April 14, 2018 . 
8. ^ For women tracking their fertility, only a few apps can help. Retrieved April 14, 2018 . 
9. ↑ The period-tracking app helping women and scientists understand cycles. Retrieved April 14, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Period Tracker App Clue Gets $ 7M To Build A Platform For Female Health - TechCrunch. Retrieved April 14, 2018 (American English). 
11. ↑ Ida Tin to speak on bringing analytics to female health at Disrupt SF - TechCrunch. Retrieved April 14, 2018 (American English). 
12. ↑ Venla Väkeväinen: CLUE ANNOUNCES $ 20 MILLION FUNDING ROUND LED BY NGP AT SLUSH 2016. Accessed April 14, 2018 . 
13. ^ Bryan Collins: Ida Tin Is Leading The Charge In Femtech, A $ 50B Industry. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .