Fertility

Fertility Companies Legacy and Carrot Team Up to Release “The Sperm Report”

Fertility benefits provider Carrot and digital male fertility clinic Legacy have recently teamed up to better understand what Americans know about sperm. The result is “The 2023 Sperm Report” based on data from nearly 3.000 respondents that reveals knowledge levels and misconceptions around sperm, its role in conception, and how it is impacting fertility. Some highlights:

Kindbody Announces $100M in New Funding to Further Accelerate Growth

Kindbody is a technology-driven fertility clinic network and family-building benefits provider for employers offering virtual and in-person care. To support future company growth, the company has raised $100M in capital from Perceptive Advisors, a leading life sciences investment firm, to support future company growth. The latest financing brings Kindbody’s total equity and debt funding to more than $290M, and its valuation to $1.8B, solidifying its…

Danish Startup Wawa Fertility Launches in the UK

Wawa Fertility, a start-up founded in Denmark in late 2020, has expanded into the UK to support women undergoing fertility treatment. The Wawa app is a support system for fertility patients, designed as a personal assistant, that works to provide the most comprehensive treatment, including medical and mental health support. Goal is to provide healthcare that is personalized to each fertility patient’s…

Wingwomen Pivots from Peer Support to Coaching Platform for Women with Preexisting Conditions Trying to Conceive

Wingwomen, a California-based fertility company, that started out as a peer support platform, is now adding health literacy programs, 1:1 health coaching, and group education to its offering. The new programs feature a curriculum for preconception and postnatal health for women including those with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), Endometriosis, Hashimoto’s, Diabetes, Preeclampsia, Advanced Maternal Age, Sickle Cell Disease, in addition to a…

Fertility Startup Doveras Launches a New Digital Lifestyle Change Program for Individuals and Couples Trying to Conceive

Doveras, a New York-based fertility startup, is launching Pre-Pregnancy Clean Up, its first digital product today. The new program is focused on evidence-based lifestyle interventions to enhance male and female fertility potential, reduce time to pregnancy, and improve assisted reproductive outcomes.  The new program may be Doveras’ first digital product on the market, Founder & CEO Nara Lee, however, is no stranger…

Posterity Health Raises $7.5M to Invest in Further Development and Growth of Its Male Fertility Platform

Posterity Health, a virtual clinic and platform dedicated to male fertility has raised $7.5M led by Distributed Ventures. Other participants in the round include FCA Venture Partners and WVV Capital. The company plans to use the fresh funds to invest in further development of its digital health platform, and to scale throughout the US. “This funding allows us to move one step…

Oma Fertility Announces Its New “Shared Egg Freezing Program”

Oma Fertility, a US-based chain of fertility clinics that combines AI and robotics in the lab and human-centered care in the clinic is launching a new Shared Egg Freezing Program. Patients who freeze their eggs with Oma and donate a portion to the Oma Egg Donor Program will receive the entire procedure at no cost. Oma’s program is being introduced at a time…

Apricity Launches Its Virtual Fertility Clinic Model in Spain

After acquiring Spain-based femtech app Woom back in May 2022, virtual fertility clinic Apricity has now expanded beyond France and the UK, and is launching its service in the Spanish market. The company shared that “Spain is one of its priority markets, given maturity (the number of treatments per million inhabitants is triple that of the UK, and it has more than twice as many…