Global benefits provider Carrot Fertility has recently announced the expansion of its leadership team with three new hires: Julie Chavez joins as Vice President of Strategy and Alliances from global consulting firm Willis Towers Watson, where she spent 10 years in leadership roles on the national health and benefits team. Brooke Bartholomay Quinn joins as Senior Vice President of Customer Success from…
Kindbody today announced the launch of Kindbody360, a dynamic and integrative solution focused on holistic care. Kindbody360 deftly augments Kindbody’s fertility and family-building offering with mental, physical, and emotional support from pre to postpartum, in-clinic, online and via its telehealth platform. Leveraging proprietary technology, the offering expands the reach of the company’s brick-and-mortar locations, mobile pop-ups, and 300+ partner clinics, furthering its…
Tulip, the world’s largest egg donor database and trusted resource for intended parents to find their ideal donor, has recently announced the closing of a $1.7M seed round. Launched in November of 2020, Tulip has quickly amassed donors from 90% of the agencies in the U.S. with nearly 20,000 egg donors within its database. The user-friendly, online search platform today helps intended…
JunoDx, a company focused on improving access to vital genetic health information, announced today the closing of an expanded Series A financing round of $25M led by the Perceptive Xontogeny Venture (PXV) Fund. The capital will be used to support clinical validation studies, product development, and commercial launch of JunoDx’s product offerings for noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT). “We are excited to partner…
Contraline, a venture-backed medical device company devoted to providing men and couples with long-lasting, safe, and effective male contraception, has appointed medical device industry executive Martin Emerson to its Board of Directors. “Marty joins our Board at an exciting time as we transition to a clinical-stage organization and plan to initiate our first-in-human clinical trial of ADAM, the world’s first injectable hydrogel…
Israel-based startup AiVF has received the European CE Mark which now allows the company to market throughout the European Union. The company has developed technology based on AI, computer vision and big data analytics to help improve iVF outcomes. Professor Daniel Seidman, MD, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer at AiVF, noted: “Traditional embryo evaluation technique is performed manually and is not AI…
Twentyeight Health, a telehealth company increasing access to sexual and reproductive healthcare for women from underserved communities, today announced that it is continuing its national expansion with launches across seven states — Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Nebraska, Tennessee, and Virginia. Twentyeight Health is now available to women across 20 states, serving over 70% of U.S. women of reproductive age. “Telehealth had a…
1 in 8 families now struggle with infertility. Studies show that the average healthy couple has a 20 percent natural fertility rate per cycle, and miscarriages in women are increasing by about 1 percent each year. Additionally, Black and Latinx women are less likely to access fertility care and have a successful IVF pregnancy. As fertility continues to be in crisis, new artificial…
