EDMOND — Crossing the finish line took entrepreneur Allison Watkins four times longer than she anticipated when she launched her company in 2016, but perseverance and assembling a great team paid off. Her invention – a medical device to manage urine leakage in women 18 years and older – goes on the market this summer after winning clearance from the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration. “This entire journey has just been wild,” said Watkins, who has obtained a patent in 51 countries. “We’re ready to start scaling this company and start making money.
I’m extremely optimistic about the outcomes for all our investors.” Edmond-based Watkins-Conti Products Inc. has raised $10 million to date.
The funds have been used to create a management system, protect intellectual property, run clinical trials, conduct biocompatibility and toxicology testing on the device and build the team of executives and expert advisers. The company is poised to launch Yōni.Fit into the $4 billion U.
S. adult incontinence market on July 1, starting with a soft launch through an obstetrics and gynecology practice in Oklahoma City and expanding nationally in the fourth quarter, Watkins said. Nearly 62% of adult women in the U.
S., about 78.3 million, experience urinary incontinence, according to a 2022 study using four years of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data.
Watkins is one of them. “It’s a huge population,” Watkins said. “They just want something (other than sur.
