Cofertility

Cofertility operates a tech-enabled fertility platform organized around two consumer-facing offerings. Its "Freeze" side includes the Split program, in which a woman freezes her eggs at no cost to herself in exchange for donating a portion of the retrieved eggs to intended parents who cannot otherwise conceive, and the Keep program, in which she self-funds egg freezing at a discount and retains all eggs retrieved. Its "Family" side is a matching platform for intended parents pursuing family building through egg donation, spanning both fresh and frozen donation programs.

The company positions egg donation as a zero-cash-compensation model: donors are said not to be motivated by cash payment but by access to fertility preservation for their own future use. Each member is assigned a dedicated Member Advocate who coordinates between the donor, the intended parents, and the fertility clinic. Cofertility also publishes an educational content library covering egg freezing, egg donation, IVF, pregnancy loss, and LGBTQ+ family building, supported by a medical advisory board of reproductive endocrinologists, an OBGYN, a fertility psychologist, a genetic counseling advisor, and an embryology advisor.

The company was co-founded by Lauren Makler (CEO) and Halle Tecco (Chair); Arielle Spiegel is listed as a co-founder and advisor. Makler previously founded Uber Health and worked in early operations at Uber; Tecco previously founded Rock Health and Natalist (acquired by Everly Health) and is a Board Director at Resolve and adjunct professor at Columbia Business School. The team also includes a chief operating officer, and heads of product, engineering, business development, finance, and marketing, alongside clinical operations, matchmaking, and member advocate staff.

Founding story

Co-founder and CEO Lauren Makler previously founded Uber Health and worked in Uber's early East Coast operations; her own fertility journey led her to build a company in reproductive health. She co-founded Cofertility with Halle Tecco, who previously founded Rock Health and Natalist and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPH from Johns Hopkins with a concentration in women's and reproductive health. Arielle Spiegel is also listed as a co-founder, serving as an advisor.

Business model

Cofertility intermediates between egg donors/egg freezers and intended parents. Under the Split program, the cost of a donor's egg freezing cycle is covered in connection with her donation of a portion of retrieved eggs to intended parents, who pursue donor egg IVF through Cofertility's matching platform; under Keep, individuals self-fund egg freezing at a discounted rate and retain all eggs. Cycles are performed at a network of partner fertility clinics rather than company-owned facilities, with Cofertility handling donor recruitment, pre-screening, screening coordination, matchmaking, and cycle coordination.

The sources describe donor egg matching services for intended parents and discounted self-funded egg freezing under the Keep program, with donors under Split paying nothing for their cycle; specific pricing is not stated.

Traction

Cofertility reports 225+ partner fertility clinics nationwide, 270+ ethnicities represented among its community, and 10,000+ "lives changed" across egg freezers, donors, intended parents, and donor-conceived children. It states it has hundreds of donors available to match across its fresh and frozen programs. Total funding reached $16 million following its April 2025 Series A.

Latest developments

In April 2025 the company announced a $7.25 million Series A co-led by Next Ventures and Offline Ventures, with participation from Initialized Capital and Gaingels, to be used for expanding operations and development. Also in 2025, Goop named Cofertility among the best egg-freezing services. The company continues to publish program and team updates, with company news posts dated through January 2026.