New Technologies for Infertility
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
The infertility market has historically been dominated by drugs. There have been few product opportunities on the medtech side, which has consisted of commodity products like syringes, petri dishes and microscopes. But that is changing; recently several new companies have been founded with technologies to improve the success rates of in vitro fertilization. VCs have also come to realize that infertility represents a premium, self-pay market for elective procedures.