Mother of Fact
Techstars '23Sunapee, US · Founded 2020 · 5 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors
Mother of Fact provides dietitian-led nutrition care for women through a HIPAA-secure telehealth platform, offering 1:1 support for fertility, pregnancy, gestational diabetes, weight management, and menopause. It works with healthcare providers via a referral portal and bills through existing Medicaid and private insurance pathways, serving patients and care teams.
Also known as Mother of Fact
Investors · 2
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Mother of Fact is a maternal health company that delivers dietitian-led nutrition care to pregnant and postpartum patients through a digital-first, telehealth-based platform. Founded by Emily Sylvester, MS, RD, a registered dietitian and board-certified lactation consultant who serves as CEO, the company focuses on the "first thousand days" — from family planning through a child's second birthday — a period it identifies as most critical for long-term health outcomes.
Patients enter the service through a referral from a clinic or hospital, issued for indications such as obesity, high blood pressure, or gestational diabetes. After downloading the app, patients can begin texting with a registered dietitian immediately and receive a telehealth visit within roughly two weeks, with support continuing through pregnancy and the postpartum period. Alongside clinical guidance for high-risk conditions such as gestational diabetes and preeclampsia, dietitians address food access, WIC benefits, and culturally familiar meal planning. The company emphasizes cultural congruence in care delivery, including building diverse clinical teams and training AI models on demographically representative datasets. It has also released a Maternal Nutrition Impact Estimator, a tool allowing health system leaders to enter patient volumes and insurance mix to estimate the revenue and outcome impact of digital-first nutrition care.
Founding story
Founder Emily Sylvester was working as a registered dietitian and lactation consultant at a large Boston hospital when an infant on her caseload died from nutrition-related pregnancy and postpartum complications. Concluding that there would never be enough dietitians to prevent such outcomes through in-person care alone, she began developing a telehealth approach in 2019 to extend registered dietitians' reach to more patients. After the birth of her third child that year, she was accepted into EforAll, a business accelerator program on Cape Cod, which she described as her "six-month MBA" and where she validated the commercial viability of the model.
Business model
Mother of Fact partners with health clinics, hospitals, and OB/GYN and women's health practices, embedding its dietitians into existing clinical workflows rather than operating as a one-time referral service. Patients pay nothing out of pocket; partner clinics bill for the reimbursable nutrition services. The company positions the arrangement as cost neutral at minimum for clinics, with the potential for a 2x return by capturing nutrition reimbursement streams that health systems often do not pursue.
Revenue is tied to clinical reimbursement for nutrition services billed by partner health systems, with no out-of-pocket cost to patients. The company has also pursued contracting with Medicaid, which covers roughly half of births nationally.
Traction
Reported outcomes include 70% of births uncomplicated, 86% of at-risk patients avoiding gestational diabetes, a 30% reduction in nutrition-related complications, and a 90% increase in registered dietitian referrals without additional burden on clinical staff. The company reports clinics can realize $3 in value for every $1 invested. As of mid-2024 the team numbered six and served clinics and hospitals in three states; as of September 2025 it had launched in four states.
Latest developments
In September 2025, the company reported operating in four states with a target of seven by the end of the year, and introduced the Maternal Nutrition Impact Estimator for healthcare leaders. Founder Emily Sylvester was profiled by StartUp Health as a community member advancing women's health, children's health, and food-as-medicine initiatives.
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Market position
The company operates in maternal health and "food as medicine," positioning nutrition as an underused, under-reimbursed intervention within maternal care. It is a member of the StartUp Health community and was profiled as a "Startup Star" by Business NH Magazine. It frames its offering as an alternative to in-house dietitian staffing models and to one-time nutrition referrals, and targets health systems facing OB/GYN shortages and expanding maternal care deserts.
Rather than a single referral, Mother of Fact embeds dietitians continuously into women's health workflows with app-based access and daily monitoring across the first thousand days. It reports a 60% lower cost than in-house dietitian models and a 9-day median time from referral to dietitian session compared with 22 days in standard care, and it emphasizes culturally congruent care matched to patient backgrounds.
Technology
A digital-first telehealth platform accessible via a mobile app that supports asynchronous texting with registered dietitians, scheduled telehealth visits, and daily monitoring. The company states it trains AI models on datasets reflecting changing US demographics and designs for digital health equity.
Go-to-market
Sales are directed at hospital systems and clinics, with the pitch centered on unrecognized nutrition reimbursement revenue and improved maternal outcomes. The Maternal Nutrition Impact Estimator lets prospective health system partners model revenue and outcome impact from their own patient volumes and payer mix. The company has also worked toward Medicaid contracting and is gathering outcomes data in its active states to demonstrate cost savings.
Health clinics, hospitals, and women's health and OB/GYN practices that refer at-risk pregnant and postpartum patients; end users are pregnant and postpartum people, with a stated focus on vulnerable populations including people of color, low-income individuals, and rural residents.
Geography
Headquartered in Sunapee, New Hampshire. As of July 2024, operations spanned health clinics and hospitals in Maine, Mississippi, and California; as of September 2025, the company reported having launched in four states with plans to reach seven by year end.
History
The concept originated in 2019, prior to the pandemic-driven expansion of telehealth. Sylvester subsequently relocated her family to Sunapee, New Hampshire, in part because a lower cost of living allowed her to work on the business full time. The company raised outside capital and later received ongoing funding from the National Institutes of Health. By mid-2024 it was working with health clinics and hospitals in Maine, Mississippi, and California with a team of six, and by September 2025 it reported operating in four states.
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Competitors · 1
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Timeline · 6
launches, deals, and filingsThe company reported having launched in four states and being on track to reach seven by the end of the year.
A newly introduced tool allowing healthcare leaders to input patient volumes and insurance breakdowns to estimate the revenue and outcome value of digital-first nutrition care.
The company attracted outside capital investments and later funding from the National Institutes of Health, described as ongoing as of July 2024. No amounts were disclosed.
Mother of Fact was working with health clinics and hospitals in three states — Maine, Mississippi and California — with a team of six, and was pursuing Medicaid insurance contracting.
Emily Sylvester was accepted into EforAll, a business accelerator program on Cape Cod, which she credited with validating the business model.
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primary sources listed
- Startup Star: Mother of Fact Helps Moms and Babies Get Better Nutritional Care: Business NH Magazinebusinessnhmagazine.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Mother of Fact do?
- Digital-first maternal health company delivering reimbursable, dietitian-led nutrition care through clinic and hospital referrals.
- Who are Mother of Fact's investors?
- Mother of Fact's investors include CEI Ventures, Techstars.
- Where is Mother of Fact headquartered?
- Mother of Fact is headquartered in Sunapee, US.