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Your first real VC assignment: map your campus and win $500

Map your campus innovation scene! Top entries get cash, investor exposure, and automatic fellowship access :)

October 08, 2025

Hey everyone,

The Girls Into VC leadership team gathered for a retreat this weekend, where we focused on year-ahead strategy and planning for our future events. We’re excited for what’s ahead and can’t wait to share more soon!

We are incredibly excited to launch our first competition in partnership with Underscore!

🚀 Map the Future: $500 Campus Innovation Challenge

We’re launching our first-ever Campus Mapping Competition in partnership with Underscore VC… and we’re putting $850 in cash prizes + automatic VC fellowship access on the line.

Your mission?

  • Build a visual + narrative map of your school’s startup and innovation ecosystem

  • Spotlight the professors who act like stealth advisors, the founders building from dorm rooms, the clubs and labs where energy gathers

You can work solo or in a team of up to 3 (must include at least one woman), and submit a 6–8 slide deck by October 18th.

🏆 Prizes:
• 1st Place — $500 + automatic acceptance into Girls Into VC Fellowship (<10% acceptance rate)
• 2nd Place — $250 + Fellowship Acceptance
• 3rd Place — $100 + Fellowship Acceptance

Top reports will be featured publicly and shared with real investors.

No VC background required — just curiosity, observation, and a fresh student perspective.

DUE October 18th at 11:59pm EST so get started soon!!

As we roll into fall, it’s clear that biotech and digital health are having a moment. From billion-dollar acquisitions to female founders pushing into underexplored spaces like hormones and microbiome health, this week is full of signals that innovation in health isn’t slowing down.

This issue brings you the latest deals, opportunities, and inspiration from the world of health and bio innovation.

🌟Job Postings

Full Time Roles:

Internships:

💡 Founder Spotlight

Hormones are the body’s control center, but measuring and managing them has historically been expensive, invasive, and inaccessible. Level Zero Health, co-founded by Ula Rustamova and Irene Jia, is changing that. Their tech enables continuous hormone tracking through DNA-based sensors, with applications from fertility to performance monitoring.

Earlier this year, Level Zero Health raised $5.5M in pre-seed, one of Europe’s largest pre-seed rounds ever for female founders.

Why it matters: Hormonal health affects everything from productivity to longevity, yet is often overlooked. Level Zero’s founders are building a new category of consumer health, one that could empower millions to understand their bodies in real time.

💸 Fund Highlight

Founded by Dr. Marta G. Zanchi, Barcelona-based Nina Capital is a venture firm dedicated to early-stage health innovation. Earlier this year, Nina Capital closed its third fund at €50M, doubling down on digital health, data-driven medicine, and biotech at the seed and Series A stages.

Why it matters: Nina Capital is proof that female-founded funds are not just participating in health innovation, they’re leading it, and shaping which founders and technologies get backed at the earliest, riskiest stages.

🔬 Recent Health / Bio VC Deals

Dualitas Therapeutics — $65M Series A to develop bispecific antibody therapies for immune-related diseases, including asthma and rheumatoid arthritis.

AllRock Bio — $50M Series A to advance its pulmonary arterial hypertension drug (ROC-101) into Phase 2a trials, and push its cardiopulmonary and fibrotic disease pipeline.

Reveal HealthTech — $7.2M Series A led by Leo Capital to grow its AI-driven healthcare & life-sciences transformation platform.

🎧 Podcast Feature

Podcast: The Healthtech Podcast
Hosted by: Dr. James Somauroo
What it’s about: Interviews with founders, investors, and leaders across healthtech, exploring how tech transforms care delivery, operations, AI diagnostics, and more.

Episode to check out:
“First Look: Open AI cuts diagnostic errors by 16%”, a recent episode that dives into how AI is reducing errors in diagnostics, exploring both opportunity and challenges in applying AI in health settings

✨ Closing Note

Health and biotech innovation are not abstract trends, they’re about solving the most human challenges of our time. Whether you’re exploring VC, building a startup, or simply curious about where the future of medicine is headed, now is the moment to lean in.

We hope this issue inspires you to think bigger about the role you can play in shaping the future of health.

Until next time,
The GIVC Content Team 💗