{"id":662166,"date":"2025-04-11T09:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cofertility-raises-a-7m-series-a-to-make-egg-freezing-free\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T09:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:15:17","slug":"cofertility-raises-a-7m-series-a-to-make-egg-freezing-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cofertility-raises-a-7m-series-a-to-make-egg-freezing-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Cofertility raises a $7M Series A to make egg freezing free"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In recent years, focus on career and delayed marriage age is driving some women to consider preserving their fertility through egg freezing.<\/p>\n

But the steep cost of the procedure, estimated at $10,000 to $15,000<\/a> per attempt, means many women can\u2019t afford it during their most fertile years: 20s and early 30s.<\/p>\n

Cofertility<\/a>, a startup founded by former Uber executive Lauren Makler and health tech angel investor Halle Tecco, offers women no-cost egg freezing in exchange for donating half the retrieved eggs to those unable to conceive.<\/p>\n

The three-year-old startup just raised a $7.25 million Series<\/a> A round led by Next Ventures and Offline Ventures, with participation from Initialized, Gaingels, and several other investors. This financing round brings Cofertility\u2019s total funding to $16 million.<\/p>\n

The idea for Cofertility stems from Makler\u2019s fertility and health scare. A 2018 diagnosis of a rare abdominal disease led to multiple surgeries that threatened the loss of her ovaries.<\/p>\n

In such situations, doctors sometimes suggest egg freezing for young women who want to have children, but that was not an option for Makler.<\/p>\n

So, she started to learn as much as possible about egg donation.<\/p>\n

She knew donors were compensated for their eggs, but she was shocked to learn how expensive the eggs could be. If she wanted an egg from a Jewish donor to match her background, it would cost more. The price increased further if she sought an egg from an educated woman.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt sort of like surge pricing for egg donors, which felt icky to me,\u201d she said, referring to Uber\u2019s app<\/a>roach for charging for rides during peak-demand times.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Luckily, Makler ended up conceiving a child naturally, but that experience led her to want to build a business that matches young women who wish to preserve their fertility with people who need a donor egg.<\/p>\n

While the concept of egg sharing is not new, Makler claims that Cofertility is the only company that offers eggs at scale through its \u201cSplit\u201d program.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt any given time, we have hundreds of donors that are available for intended parents,\u201d Makler said, adding that most clinics will have only a handful of donors, which is unlikely to result in a match.<\/p>\n

Makler says that Cofertility\u2019s egg donors come from diverse backgrounds and that about 55% of them have graduate degrees.<\/p>\n

Intended parents cover the egg retrieval costs and Cofertility\u2019s coordination fee, similar to standard egg donation. However, they don\u2019t have to compensate the donor, lowering their out-of-pocket expenses.<\/p>\n

While Makler doesn\u2019t want to call Cofertility a marketplace, she agrees that it works like one and that her company is solving a big structural problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big vision and the goal is removing the taboo of egg donation,\u201d she said, \u201cThere is zero shame in however you become a parent. Doing that with the help of a donor who\u2019s also interested in freezing her own eggs is a really exciting option.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In recent years, focus on career and delayed marriage age is driving some women to consider preserving their fertility through egg freezing. But the steep cost of the procedure, estimated at $10,000 to $15,000 per attempt, means many women can\u2019t afford it during their most fertile years: 20s and early 30s. Cofertility, a startup founded…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":662167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Cofertility-LH-Headshot-NEW03.2.jpg?resize=1200,675","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[151516,155533,155534,155535,70917,151477],"class_list":["post-662166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-biotech-health","tag-fertility-tech","tag-next-ventures","tag-offline-ventures","tag-startups","tag-venture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}