Funding Details
- Awarder
- YCombinator
- Date Award
- April 24, 2019
- Vertical
- Healthcare,Consumer Health and Wellness
- Funding URL
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- Valuation
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$0
Company Info
- Founding Year
- 2019
- Company Description
- **TL;DR:**
Legacy (YC S19) is a startup focused on the fast-growing field of fertility and family planning. Founded at Harvard, the company has now raised almost $50M from leading investors like FirstMark Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Section 32, Tribe Capital, and even celebrities like Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, and others. For context, we've closed 4 venture rounds in 2.5 years, in addition to our celebrity round of funding.
**What we're doing**
We are building a complete digital health hub for future fathers/parents. We aim to change the outdated view that fertility is a "women's issue" by creating an accessible, affordable product for men & people with sperm. This includes everything from a mail-in kit for sperm testing & sperm freezing, personalized sperm improvement products, tele-health, DNA fragmentation analysis, supplements, and more.
**Why are we the leader?**
The company was founded at Harvard by a team of healthcare and fertility experts. We obsess about talent density and have out-executed our competitors over the past few years. Beyond our D2C channel, we've also unlocked:
1. Insurance (We cover over 10M individuals through insurance in NY and CA)
2. Military (We serve the Navy SEALs & other SpecOps through exclusive programs)
3. Employers (We work with the top fertility benefit providers like Progyny, Carrot, and Maven)
**Tell me about the team**
We're a team of under 50, extremely diverse (majority female, majority immigrants, strong LGBQTIA+ representation, age range of 25-65), and very values driven. Our 5 values are customer centricity, reliability, kindness, openness, and winning.
Learn more about our values here:
https://khaled-legacy.medium.com/legacys-values-and-why-they-matter-db116539d3da
Learn more about our workplace here:
https://khaled-legacy.medium.com/how-and-why-legacy-is-reinventing-workplace-benefits-9e5fda6cb863
Read about our mission to humanize the path to parenthood:
https://khaled-legacy.medium.com/how-and-why-legacy-is-reinventing-workplace-benefits-9e5fda6cb863
Learn more about sperm and why it matters here:
docsend.com/view/zkgk7ws
- Market
- Healthcare
- Coinvestors
- YCombinator
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