Fertility startup American Baby Company secures US$4m

A fertility startup has raised US$4m and will open its first lower-cost IVF clinic in West Palm Beach later this year.

It will offer a full IVF cycle, including medications, for US$8,995.

Around 12 per cent of American couples struggle with infertility, according to the company, but only 14 per cent of them receive IVF because of the cost.

A single IVF cycle costs an average of US$23,500, it said, with the cost nearly doubling if further cycles are needed.

Co-founder and chief executive Van Spina said: “We’re building ABC around a straightforward premise: IVF has become unnecessarily expensive, and many patients are priced out before they ever have a real chance to start a family.”

“This is personal for me. My fiancée and I went through IVF ourselves, including multiple failed cycles,” Spina continued, citing Jamie Rapp.

“That experience pushed me to build the kind of fertility company we wished had existed when we began treatment.”

The US$4m seed round was led by Wormhole Capital and Tower Research Ventures.

In a blog post, New York-based Tower Research described ABC as a new model for fertility care, praising its “evidence-based protocols, AI-assisted intake, and modern lab workflows.”

“When we met the team at The American Baby Company (ABC), we saw an opportunity to rethink how fertility care is delivered in the US from the ground up,” the post said.

Co-founder and chief medical officer Dr Paul Magarelli is a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist and one of the most prominent voices in the US on expanding access to fertility care, according to Tower.

Reproductive endocrinology is a branch of medicine concerned with hormones and fertility.

Magarelli developed the Clinical Fertility Physician certification programme, which trains generalist clinicians to deliver routine fertility procedures under specialist oversight.

Spina spent his early career as a technology investor at Warburg Pincus before founding an institutionally backed data business in private credit.

“We’re on a mission to become the place Americans go to start their families,” Spina said.

“Our 10-year goal is to help make 250,000 babies per year.”