Fertility company Kindbody has appointed Dean Morbeck, Ph.D. as its first Chief Scientific Officer. Dr. Morbeck is a leading researcher in the area of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and brings more than 25 years of experience in the field to the company. He will apply his scientific expertise and highly specialized areas of research to support Kindbody’s full-service family-building service offering as the…
Proov, a science-based hormone testing company, has received patent issue notification for its third utility patent, protecting the use of a LH test to identify the opening of the fertile window and the later use of a separate PdG test to identify the closing of the fertile window. The patented method protects uses associated with Proov’s soon to be announced app platform,…
Toronto-based DTC Fertility startup Bird & Be has announced a $1.8M financing round led by BAM Ventures, an early-stage consumer fund founded by Brian Lee, co-founder and former CEO of LegalZoom and the Honest Company. Other investors participating in the round are Elliot Cohen, Co-founder of PillPack, Slow Ventures, JJ Wilson , Judy Brooks, HaloHealth, Backbone Angels, and Fitt Ventures. Bird & Be offers direct-to-consumer, personalized at-home kits designed…
Best Shot, a fertility medication management and small group therapy platform, and The Fertility Tribe, an online fertility community in the U.S., have announced the launch of Rescripted, a merger between the two brands. The new direct-to-consumer business applies the technology-enabled care platform developed by Best Shot to The Fertility Tribe’s existing community and digital publishing platform, delivering seamless tools and resources…
Virtual Fertility Clinic Apricity has appointed gynaecologist and obstetrician Dr. Luca Sabatini as the company’s new Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Sabatini will work alongside the founders to help implement Apricity’s clinical strategy. Apricity wants to address some of the greatest challenges in fertility through technology. The appointment of Dr. Sabatini comes as Apricity experiences rapid growth, with an expansion into Spain planned…
Lady Technologies, the company behind kegg, has announced a $1.5M seed II round to invest in B2B growth. This brings the company’s total funding to $3M. This latest round was led by Crescent Ridge Partners Allison Long-Pettine and Maria Gonzalez-Blanch. Other participants include SOSV, Texas Halo Fund, Althea Capital Fund, Ad Astra Ventures, Viento Ventures, fermata, and the Intent Impact Fund. Lady…
San Francisco-based global fertility benefits provider for employers and health plans Carrot Fertility has announced the closing of a $75M Series C. The round was led by Tiger Global with participation from ObriMed, F-Prime Capital, CRV, U.S. Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Bank. The company has raised a total of $115M in funding to date. Companies use Carrot to customize a fertility…
FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific has announced that it will become the sole worldwide distributor of Life Whisperer, the fertility arm of Presagen, a leader in Artificial Intelligence healthcare. Life Whisperer is a non-invasive and web-based software product that uses image-based analysis and AI to assist the embryologist’s determination of embryo viability. While many factors affect the success rate of in vitro fertilization (IVF), the conventional…
