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Elvie
Pioneering smarter technology for women
- 201-500 employees
- B2C
- Manufacturing
- Femtech
- Wellbeing
- London, GB (HQ), 63-66 Hatton Garden, Holborn
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Company mission
To improve women's lives through smarter technology. In their own words: 'Women shouldn’t have to make do with shoddy design or pink spin-offs when there are self-driving cars in the world.'
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
63% female employees
-23% employee growth in 12 months
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
It's now being recognised that women's health has been underinvested in for too long. That is changing, with the Femtech market (including fertility apps, maternal health and sexual wellbeing products) projected to be worth $50bn by 2025 (according to research by Frost & Sullivan).
Elvie are one of the only companies out there dedicating world class industrial engineering resources to making great products for women.
The company has made great hires, and the team is full of super experienced people with varied backgrounds (Dyson, Bosch, McKinsey, PepsiCo, Pernod Ricard).
Elvie has explored new markets and now targets other key areas of women's lives, further diversifying its product portfolio and drive growth via geographical expansion.
Benefits
- Lots of flexibility: whether it’s working from home, doing the school run, or life admin, we understand that flexibility is essential, and we trust you to do the right thing for you and us
- Share options: we want everyone to have a stake in our success
- An annual discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays
- 3 additional Elvie “in it together” bank holidays for 2022
- 8 extra life leave days; getting married, moving house, menopause or just things that you can’t put a label on that matter to you
- 5=10 leave: 10 days’ additional leave on your 5th and 10th years of service!
- £100 contribution to your home working set up to spend as you see fit
- An annual personal development allowance of £200 and unlimited access to our learning and development platform, Learnerbly
- Generous parental leave policies; maternity, paternity/partner, shared & adoption
- Healthcare plans, life insurance, and an employee assistance program for you and your family
- A tax-efficient group pension scheme
- Group income protection; protect your salary if you get sick
- A free Elvie trainer for you to keep or give away when you join
- Generous employee and friends & family discounts on Elvie products
- Wellbeing support from YuLife and access to SmartHealth app with unlimited GP appointments for you and your family, plus various well-being initiatives throughout the year
- Lovely offices in great locations, with drinks and snacks provided, along with fun social events
Company values
- We make an impact
- We’re fearless innovators
- We're in it together
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$15.9m
SERIES C
Jul 2021
$72.6m
SERIES C
$138m
Total funding
This company has top investors
Founders
Tania Boler
(Co-Founder & President)Initially served as the company's CEO. 12 years experience working for NGOs and the UN before founding Elvie in 2013. Internationally recognised women's health expert with a PhD in sexual health.
Alexander Asseily
(Co-Founder)Previously served as the company's Chairman. Founded Jawbone in 1998 (tech company that produced bluetooth earpieces). Also runs VC firm Zulu, which has made investments in companies like Improbable and Juul.
Diversity & Inclusion at Elvie
- At Elvie, our team and our culture champions diversity, equity, and inclusion. We want to build a workplace where everyone can be their authentic selves, and be respected, trusted and empowered. This is the key to our success, and our commitment is to keep it this way while we are growing fast
- We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply for our jobs; and we don’t discriminate based on race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, marital status, disability or age. We are also a member of UK Tech Talent Charter and proudly work in partnership with myGwork and Women’s tech hub to help encourage applications from a wider talent pool
- We are working on making our offices wheelchair friendly and breastfeeding friendly. We do our best to accommodate part-time requests and flexible requests as much as possible
- As a company, we hold ourselves accountable based on data to ‘attract, grow and retain’, and reinforce Elvie culture of inclusion through initiatives like training on unconscious bias for all managers. Within Elvie, we will reinforce our actions with widespread education around race and equality - empowering our employees to educate, listen and learn, while encouraging open dialogue and discussions, so we can develop as a collective
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Meaningful work (1)
Intelligent people (1)
Supportive management (1)
Diversity is a priority (1)
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The energy at Elvie is like no where I have ever worked before - great people who are passionate their jobs. Everyone is super friendly and helpful. When you find something new or something that can be improved, the team is extremely supportive in how that can be incorporated into the product.
Product
Team energy
Dec 2020
My manager is extremely supportive and cares about my career development. He helps me to align my career goals with company related projects and helps get me involved in projects he knows will interest me.
Product
Supportive management
Dec 2020
Every project I'm put on is an opportunity to work with a different team within the company and improve my skills in a different area. Elvie constantly throws you in the deep end, which allows you to thrive and improve.
Product
Opportunities to learn
Dec 2020
Elvie got a clear mission, a great mission everyone in the company signup for. Not only your work is helping a lot of women life, but it is also about making meaningful design, and useful product that design around user needs.
Design
Meaningful work
Dec 2020
Autonomy is key to everyone in Elvie. It is a very collaborative process from a concept, to develop as a product and all the way to sell globally. Everyone brings in their own expertise to contribute to every single part of the process.
Design
Autonomy
Dec 2020
I work four days a week, but that doesn't affect the way I work with everyone in the company or the work I deliver. During Covid, we all work from home. And to make sure I am not sitting at my living room the whole day, sometimes I start work earlier, sometimes I work later to make sure I have time to exercise! Wellbeing is super important as well.
Design
Flexible working
Dec 2020
The projects and challenges set out to us in the product team are often really engaging because nobody has set out to solve them before. Elvie is trailblazing in it's approach to design, empowering and improving women's lives.
Design
Challenging work
Dec 2020
I don't think I've ever been surrounded by so many people on top of their game. My colleagues are always there to support and challenge ideas on the table, not for the sake of it, but to get to the best solution we can.
Design
Intelligent people
Dec 2020
By it's nature Elvie is a very diverse company. I feel honoured to work in such a welcoming environment where there is not just zero judgment, but diversity is actively encouraged and promoted. It's part of our daily routines and there are no questions that cannot be asked in open forums.
Design
Diversity is a priority
Dec 2020
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