About
About The Billion Dollar Blindspot
The Billion Dollar Blindspot is an independent publishing and intellectual platform examining one of healthcare’s most persistent market inefficiencies: the gap between the scale of women’s health needs and the capital allocated to addressing them.
We publish research, analysis and conversations for investors, founders, healthcare leaders and institutions seeking to understand how scientific progress, technological innovation and changing capital flows are reshaping women’s health.
Our work brings an institutional investment lens to a field too often discussed solely as a healthcare problem or social cause. Women’s health deserves the same rigorous analysis applied to every significant area of healthcare opportunity.
The Platform
The book
The Billion Dollar Blindspot: Why Women’s Health Is the Investment Opportunity of Our Time explains how women’s health became largely invisible to capital markets, why that is changing and what investors should understand about the opportunities now emerging.
Investment intelligence
Our articles, briefings and research connect developments in science, healthcare innovation and capital markets with their implications for investors.
The newsletter
The Billion Dollar Blindspot newsletter provides timely analysis of women’s health, Healthcare AI, healthcare investing, funding, transactions and the forces shaping the future of the sector.
Founded by Maryann Selfe
The Billion Dollar Blindspot was founded by Maryann Selfe, an institutional investor and the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Calabar Capital.
After more than two decades working across private banking, portfolio construction, investment risk and capital allocation, Maryann began examining why healthcare needs affecting half the population remained largely absent from mainstream investment frameworks.
That research became The Billion Dollar Blindspot and developed into a broader body of work focused on the investment infrastructure needed to connect long-term capital with opportunities in women’s health.
Maryann is also the Founder and President of FemmeHealth Alliance, an independent Swiss non-profit ecosystem and convening platform working to catalyse capital into women’s-health innovation.