In recent years, focusing on career and late marriage age has led some women to consider maintaining their fertility through egg freezing.
But the sharp cost of the process, Estimated in 10,000 to $ 15,000 By attempt, it means that many women cannot afford in the most fertile years: 20 and in the early 1930s.
Cofertility, a launch founded by former Uber Executive Executive Lauren Makler and Health Technology Investor Halle Tecco, offers women who have not frozen egg in return for the donation of half of eggs to those who are unable to capture.
The three -year launch has just set a round of $ 7.25 million, led by subsequent businesses and off -connection businesses, with the participation of initialized, Gaingels and many other investors. This funding tour brings Coferth’s total funding to $ 16 million.
The idea for normalization comes from the fertility and health of Makler. The diagnosis of rare abdominal disease of 2018 has led to multiple surgeries that threatened the loss of its ovaries.
In such situations, doctors sometimes suggest egg freezing for young women who want to have children, but this was not an option for Makler.
So he started learning as much as possible about donating eggs.
He knew that the donors were offset for their eggs, but it was shocked to find out how expensive the eggs could be. If she wanted an egg from a Jewish donor to match her background, she would cost more. The price was further increased if she asked for an egg from an educated woman.
“I felt like pricing of the egg donors who felt icky for me,” he said, referring to Uber’s approach to charge for walks during the years of demand.
Fortunately, Makler ended up arresting a child of course, but this experience led her to want to build a business that fits young women who want to maintain their fertility with people who need an egg donor.
While the concept of egg distribution is not new, Makler claims that Cofertility is the only company that offers eggs on a scale through the “Split” program.
“At any given time, we have hundreds of donors available for the predicted parents,” Makler said, adding that most clinics will only have one handful of donors, which is unlikely to lead to a race.
Makler says Cofertility’s egg donors come from a different background and that about 55% of them have a degree.
The predicted parents cover the cost of recovering eggs and the coordination fee of Cofertility, similar to the standard egg donation. However, they do not need to offset the donor by reducing expenses out of pocket.
While Makler does not want to call the market a market, she agrees that she works as one and that her company is solving a major structural problem.
“The big vision and the goal is to remove the egg donation taboo,” he said, “there is zero shame, however, you become a parent.
