00:00That's what I wanted to ask you. What was the inspiration behind this? It's such an important
00:04topic to so many people and I feel like so many founders in this space have a personal
00:07connection or experience in it that made them want to innovate on it. So can you tell me a
00:11little bit about what inspired you? Absolutely. So I got myself diagnosed with severe endometriosis
00:17about two and a half years ago. That was something quite shocking at that point of time because the
00:23doctor told me your reproductive age is at least 10 years older than your actual biological age.
00:29And I was like, okay, that's interesting. And he suggested that if I ever want to build a family,
00:34I should start to look into that right away. For me back then, I was 26, I think. I was not ready,
00:43right? I mean, I want to build a career. I want to build a company. I want to build something that
00:47changes the world. So I'm not ready for that. Also from a partner perspective. So I started
00:53looking into what my pathway would look like in building a family down the line. What are my
00:57options? You know, what can I expect? Is it impossible? Is there some chances for me? What
01:02is the right thing to do? So I started looking into fertility clinics and fertility solutions
01:06and got quite disappointed because it felt like one size fits all. It's like you have a standard
01:13package of care with, you know, stimulation, hormonal injections and everything. And that is thrown at
01:19you. And then you just go with it and you do a trial run of an IVF cycle or in my case, like freezing
01:23cycle. And the lack of personalization, the lack of also personal touch and all of that, not feeling
01:30like a number, but feeling like a unique individual that is, you know, not like everyone else because,
01:35you know, every one of us has their own story. I didn't feel that. So I turned around and said,
01:40okay, if there's nothing out there that I feel really comfortable with and moving forward with,
01:44I'm going to be turning around and building what I would like to experience as a patient myself.
01:49And to be fair, most of that was also driven. And that one was probably the most shocking aspect
01:53for me. Success rates in IVF care are so low. They are so incredibly low for the whole trouble,
02:00for the cost, for all the pain that you have to go through for one cycle of IVF stimulation.
02:06It's not high enough. So, you know, I'm more a curious kind of person. So I started looking into,
02:13okay, why is that so low? Obviously, it's biology. So obviously, it's a lot also in our bodies,
02:17but other ways to improve that. So I came to the point of precision medicine. In the end,
02:25personalizing fertility care to each individual human that seeks to build a family and really
02:30optimizing the care for each person by that actually boosting the success rates.
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