INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Halle Tecco is no stranger to conception struggles
The Rock Health founder and former CEO has been public about her journey on social media, including two rounds of IVF, eventually leading to
Now, she wants to help others make babies, too.To get there, Tecco has joined a class of new fertility tech companies that have popped up in
But, as Tecco was quick to point out, not every woman is keen on going into their local CVS, grabbing a pregnancy test and taking it up to
In fact, many women Tecco polled before starting her company mentioned the need in the market for discretion
the minimum for anyone trying to make a baby, Tecco has already raised a cool $5 million to build out products addressing more serious
fertility concerns, like PCOS and endometriosis, which, combined, affect one out of every five women in their child bearing years and can
herself creating something like the app Glow, which both offers information and data through various stages of pregnancy and a community of
women working on becoming pregnant, she does see the value of collaboration with these types of communities on various fertility apps and
would like to reach out to those founders to see if there might be something there they can work on in the future as well.For those
those of you TechCrunch readers interested in the funding details, Natalist took in seed money from Collaborative Fund, Cowboy Ventures,
Fuel Capital, Rock Health and xFund, as well as several well-known angel investors, including Katrina Lake, Julia Cheek, Christine Lemke,
John Doerr, Malay Gandhi, David Vivero and R
