Exclusive: Home reproductive clinic Turtle Health raises $5M seed
Summary
The trial concluded its technology was as good as an in-clinic TVS when it came to clinical-quality images and estimating a womans supply of eggs. Other virtual-first companies in the reproductive ring include: Maven Clinic, a virtual maternal and family health unicorn, in November raised $90 million in Series E funds. Future Family, a startup combining fertility financing and care support, in April collected $25 million in Series B funding at an $80 million dollar valuation.What theyre saying: Alessandra Ainsworth, a Mayo Clinic OB-GYN involved in Turtles current clinical trial, commends the companys thoughtful and far-reaching approach, as does Turtle investor and Switch Ventures partner Paul Arnold. "I think their efforts, which are tremendous, to do this in a data-driven way while still designing a product thats beautiful and comprehensive...the level of thoughtfulness has a lot of potential," Ainsworth says.Yes, but: Provider buy-in will be the companys next challenge. "I wanted to take all the building blocks of that fertility process and make it possible to do all of it at home," Zwanziger says.\U0001f422 One fun thing: To lay their eggs, loggerhead turtles undertake epic migrations guided by magnetic fields to return to the beaches where they were born.