Deep-tech firm ImVitro has introduced a $2.5M seed spherical led by LDV Capital, with co-investors together with MMC Ventures, Tiny VC, Fly Ventures, and Compound VC. The corporate consists of a dozen consultants concerned with AI, medtech, and regulatory affairs. The staff is led by Dr. Alexandra Boussommier, a biomedical engineer educated in Switzerland, the UK and the US.
EMBRYOLY Platform for IVF Course of
ImVitro developed the B2B SaaS platform EMBRYOLY, which applies pc imaginative and prescient and synthetic intelligence (AI) to the IVF fertility imaging course of. The corporate works to attenuate failed transfers within the IVF course of, in addition to enhance high quality management and transparency for sufferers.
Over a dozen clinics in Europe depend on EMBRYOLY, with greater than 1,500 IVF cycles being processed by the platform.
ImVitro developed an working system that mixes cell tradition and AI to deal with infertility. The method entails AI-powered automation within the embryo analysis course of with EMBRYOLY analyzing movies from microscopes to save lots of time for clinicians whereas growing transparency. This course of additionally eliminates human errors and delivers dependable predictions. Clinics can even use the platform to supply entry to a affected person portal that delivers simplified lab outcomes.
The platform is CE marked and has benchmarked its efficiency in opposition to 13 embryologists in a retrospective medical trial.
Whereas different options are restricted to visible data or the affected person’s age, ImVitro can analyze greater than 30 medical information factors to create a hybrid rating. These information factors embrace the affected person’s BMI, uterus receptivity, spermatozoa mobility, and extra. All of this results in improved accuracy and personalised and standardized outcomes.
Dr. Alexandra Boussommier can be Founder and CEO of ImVitro.
“By making an allowance for information in regards to the sufferers and their therapy, EMBRYOLY predicts extra precisely the probabilities an embryo has to result in a being pregnant and gives extra clear and personalised suggestions,” Dr. Boussommier stated.
The brand new funding will go in the direction of including new hires within the technical and gross sales staff. It’s going to additionally assist the corporate broaden to the U.S. market and develop new options for the software program.
“We’re very excited to be getting into this new chapter that may consolidate our AI-driven software program not solely as a device that minimizes failed IVF remedies, but additionally one which will increase workflow effectivity within the IVF lab and gives a bridge between docs and sufferers so as to add transparency to the advanced multi-step course of that’s IVF,” Dr. Boussommier continued.
Dr. Xavier Pollet-Villard is Director of the Nataliance IVF and Andrology laboratory.
“ImVitro helps embryologists and sufferers at our clinic to navigate the advanced means of IVF,” he says. “It not solely will increase the effectivity of the work that we do but additionally gives much-needed transparency. Their AI-powered platform EMBRYOLY seamlessly connects to our know-how stack and helps us make data-driven choices about embryos that we observe in our lab which then result in profitable pregnancies.”
Phrases From Traders
Evan Nisselson is Founder and Normal Accomplice at LDV Capital.
“We at LDV Capital are thrilled to associate with Dr. Alexandra Boussommier and the good staff at ImVitro to carry EMBRYOLY to market throughout the globe so thousands and thousands of individuals can enhance their probability of getting a profitable being pregnant by way of the IVF Fertility course of,” stated Nisselson. “ImVitro will ship a leapfrog technical resolution to the IVF fertility imaging course of by leveraging pc imaginative and prescient and synthetic intelligence which has been a core experience of our LDV Capital agency since being based in 2012.”
Charlotte Barttelot is Principal at MMC Ventures.
“We’ve been researching the fertility panorama, and the IVF course of has not improved for the reason that first IVF child over 40 years in the past,” Barttelot stated. “ImVitro’s staff combines deep-tech experience and entrepreneurship, leveraging pc imaginative and prescient and AI to extend the proportion of profitable pregnancies. We’re proud to be a part of their journey.”
