Women in Innovation has been central to Health Innovation Exchange (HIEx) since its inception, placing women entrepreneurs at the heart of its mission to advance inclusive innovation and global health impact. Through its Women in Innovation (WiN) work, HIEx has championed female entrepreneurship across multiple dimensions: driving advocacy and thought leadership on women-led innovation; providing one-to-one mentoring and tailored growth support to entrepreneurs within its portfolio; designing and delivering accelerators that help women innovators scale; facilitating access to public procurement and market opportunities; and creating innovative funding and investment pathways for women transforming health systems.

As a first milestone in this journey, HIEx co-founded, together with Reckitt and the Kofi Annan Foundation, the WiNFUND — a pioneering accelerator platform combining training, catalytic investment, and growth support for female founders. Building on the success of WiNFUND, HIEx continued expanding its commitment through strategic partnerships, including the design and delivery of Reckitt Catalyst in collaboration with YSI, and innovation sandbox initiatives with Bayer Foundation supporting women entrepreneurs in Indonesia. Both programmes are currently active and scaling impact.

HIEx has expanded its Women in Innovation (WiN) platform through the launch of WiN INDIA and WiN USA, strengthening regional ecosystems while opening new pathways for women innovators to access global markets, investors and strategic partners.

WiN India connects curated women innovators from India with international opportunities, building on the country’s strengths in traditional medicine, AYUSH, climate-health innovation, cleantech and scalable entrepreneurship.

Building on this momentum, WiN USA was launched during a HIEx side session at UNGA81, creating a new gateway within the WiN platform and a practical India–US corridor that connects locally rooted women-led solutions with global partners, markets and opportunities for growth and scale.