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Extend Fertility and the price of “not yet”
A clinic built around egg freezing made waiting a medical service. Its prices, laboratory details and eight years of patient data reveal what preserving an option really means.
Roohi Jeelani Is Building the Clinic She Wishes the System Had Designed
The physician-scientist spent years studying the gaps between research, clinics and patients. At Onto Health, she is turning those observations into an operating model - one deliberate fix at a time.
Conceivable Life Sciences
Conceivable Life Sciences is a New York-based reproductive-medicine company building AURA, described as the world's first AI-powered, automation-assisted IVF laboratory. Using robotics, machine vision, advanced optics and proprietary software, AURA standardizes the 200-plus intricate microscopic steps of in vitro fertilization - from sperm and egg preparation through robotic ICSI, embryo culture and vitrification - to reduce human variability, lower cost, and widen access to fertility care. Founded in 2022 by Joshua Abram, Alan Murray and Dr. Alejandro Chavez-Badiola, the company reported the first live birth from a digitally controlled, remotely operated ICSI system and raised a $50M Series A in 2025 to bring its lab to the U.S.
Univfy
Univfy is a California-based health-AI company that uses machine learning to give IVF patients personalized, center-specific predictions of their probability of a live birth. Founded by Stanford researchers Dr. Mylene Yao and Prof. Wing H. Wong, its platform analyzes thousands of real IVF cycles to move beyond age-only estimates, powering patient counseling, fertility benefits for employers and health plans, and IVF refund/warranty programs that make treatment more affordable and predictable.
Mylene Yao
Mylene Yao is co-founder, director, and CEO of Univfy, a Los Altos-based healthcare AI company that builds personalized IVF success prediction models. A board-certified OB/GYN trained at the University of Toronto, McGill, and Harvard, she was a Stanford faculty member running an NIH-funded embryo development lab before spinning her prediction research out with statistician Wing H. Wong. Univfy's models tell patients their individual odds of having a baby with IVF, and pair the prediction with financing so more people can actually pursue treatment.