Univfy Raises $6 Million

<p><strong><span class&equals;"xn-location">SAN FRANCISCO <&sol;span><&sol;strong>&&num;8212&semi; Univfy&comma; a provider of artificial intelligence &lpar;AI&rpar; and machine learning &lpar;ML&rpar; to personalize counseling and increase access to fertility care&comma; has raised <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;6 million<&sol;span> of its Series B funding round led by a portfolio company of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;c212&period;net&sol;c&sol;link&sol;&quest;t&equals;0&amp&semi;l&equals;en&amp&semi;o&equals;3394801-1&amp&semi;h&equals;2723819414&amp&semi;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;atlanticstreetcapital&period;com&percnt;2F&amp&semi;a&equals;Atlantic&plus;Street&plus;Capital" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Atlantic Street Capital<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Known by fertility specialists and patients for its flagship Univfy PreIVF Report&comma; Univfy has commercialized a suite of AI&sol;ML-assisted platform services that improves patients&&num;8217&semi; experience and access to treatment&comma; while increasing growth for fertility centers&period; With the new funding&comma; Univfy will be able to extend platform services to health plans and employers to bring transparency and predictability to fertility treatment success and costs&period; Univfy is also uniquely able to leverage its AI&sol;ML platform to advance precision medicine to improve prognostics and inform development of therapeutics in the fertility market&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Univfy&&num;8217&semi;s highly scalable AI&sol;ML platform develops and validates clinical live birth outcomes prediction models using each fertility center&&num;8217&semi;s own data&period; Commercialized in the US&comma; <span class&equals;"xn-location">Canada<&sol;span>&comma; and EU&comma; fertility specialists use the Univfy PreIVF Report to counsel patients about their probability of having a baby from IVF and other treatment options&period; This personalized and center-specific approach maximizes relevance to each patient population and efficiency of value-based care&period; Univfy&&num;8217&semi;s personalized prognostics enables fertility centers to offer patients value-based pricing programs that cap financial risk for patients and make multiple IVF cycles more affordable&period; Patients counseled with the Univfy Report are 2-3 times more likely to use their doctor&&num;8217&semi;s recommended treatment&comma; with an expected increase in the number and percentage of patients having singleton live births&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One in eight&comma; or 7 million&comma; reproductive age couples in the US and more than 80 million couples worldwide struggle to conceive on their own&period; IVF is the most effective treatment for most women and couples&comma; but it is vastly underutilized&comma; most likely due to financial risk and physical and emotional stress&period; Based on proprietary technology developed at <span class&equals;"xn-org">Stanford University<&sol;span> and R&amp&semi;D on a global scale&comma; Univfy offers a full-service&comma; validated&comma; data-driven AI platform to meet the medical&comma; emotional&comma; and financial needs of patients&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Univfy uniquely focuses on making fertility counseling easier for providers and more personalized and actionable for patients&period; This is where the most important decisions occur for women and couples&comma; emotionally and financially&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said <span class&equals;"xn-person">Mylene Yao<&sol;span>&comma; CEO and Cofounder of Univfy&period; &&num;8220&semi;We are proud of the impact we have made in improving the fertility care experience for both patients and clinical teams&period; Atlantic Street Capital shares Univfy&&num;8217&semi;s vision to make fertility care personalized and more accessible for women and couples who desire to have a family&period; We believe patients should be able to count on fertility treatments to have a baby&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;