Hannah Life Technologies, a startup for {couples} making an attempt to conceive, introduced at the moment it has raised $5.15 million in pre-Sequence A funding led by Monk’s Hill Ventures. Different buyers embody Golden Gate Ventures, Anthro Ventures, and medical know-how entrepreneur Dr. Jack Wang. The funding comes about 18 months after the corporate raised seed funding from Y Combinator.
Benjamin Tee, who co-founded Hannah Life with Prusothman Raja, informed TechCrunch that he and his spouse skilled unexplained fertility, a bodily and emotionally irritating time. “Though my spouse and I lastly conceived by IVF, I felt that there may very well be non-invasive house based mostly applied sciences to assist {couples} conceive earlier.”
Tee, who met Raja by the Stanford Biodesign program, additionally discovered that the “usually the burden of being pregnant falls on the feminine gender’s shoulders, throughout many cultures. As males, we wished additionally to assist stability the notion that infertility is commonly brought on by feminine components. Roughly half of fertility points come from males, equivalent to low sperm rely and high quality.”
The corporate provides three principal direct-to-consumer merchandise, created to provide {couples} home-based non-invasive providers as a complement to clinic-based procedures like intra-uterine insemination (IUI).
The twoplus Sperm Information is a patented machine made out of medical-grade silicone that concentrates sperm close to the cervical opening to extend probabilities of fertilization. The twoplus Applicator was created for {couples} making an attempt to conceive with out penetrative intercourse and deposits sperm immediately onto the cervical opening. The twoplus Hormone Check supplies detailed experiences on hormones, serving to {couples} decide their ranges of fertility and probably recognizing well being points.
The corporate says that because it launched in August 2021, it has supplied merchandise to over a thousand households in Singapore and the UK, with income development of over 300% quarter-over-quarter.
