In recent years, focusing on a profession and delayed marriage age implies that some women to think about the behavior of their fertility by freezing eggs.
But the high cost of the procedure, estimated at 10,000 to USD 15,000 To the test implies that many women cannot afford it during the most fertile years: 20 and early 30 years.
FactorThe startup founded by the former executive director of Uber Lauren Broker and investor of the Angel for Health, Halle TECCO, offers women to assume eggs in exchange for donating half of recovered eggs to people unable to conceive.
The three -year startup has just collected a round of $ 7.25 million and conducted by the next projects and offline projects, with the participation of initialized, Gaingels and several other investors. This funding round increases the total couple funds to $ 16 million.
The idea for a factor results from the fear of a broker and health fear. The diagnosis of rare abdominal disease in 2018 led to many operations that threatened the loss of its ovaries.
In such situations, doctors sometimes suggest freezing eggs for young women who need to have children, but it was not an option for a broker.
So she began to learn as much as possible about the donation of eggs.
The broker knew that the donors received compensation for their eggs, but she was shocked when she discovered how expensive eggs might be. If she wanted eggs from a Jewish donor, which suits her origin, it will cost more. The price increased further if she was looking for an egg from an educated woman.
“It was a bit like the price of egg donors, which seemed disgusting to me,” she said, referring to Uber’s approach to charging for rides at the time of peak.
Fortunately, the broker naturally made a child, but this experience led her to building a company that suits young women who need to remain fertility with individuals who need a donor.
Although the concept of sharing eggs is not recent, the broker claims that coupler is the only company that provides large -scale eggs through its “divided” program.
“At the moment we have hundreds of donors who are available to intended parents,” said the broker, adding that the majority clinics will only have a handful of donors, which is able to not cause a match.
The broker says that the donors of the couples’ eggs come from various environments and that about 55% of them have scientific degrees.
Planning parents cover the costs of collecting eggs and coordination fee of the Coffee, in addition to the standard egg donation. However, they do not have to compensate for the donor, reducing expenses from their very own pocket.
Although the broker does not need to call the coupler on the market, she agrees that it really works like one and that its company is solving a large structural problem.
“A great vision and goal is to remove a taboo donation from eggs,” she said, “in the way you change into a parent.