Gaia raises $14M led by Valar

We just announced that Valar, the New York VC firm backed by Peter Thiel, led a $14m investment round in Gaia, the family-building brand, to accelerate the creation of millions of families through Gaia’s value-based care model. 

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Every year, 10 million people worldwide face challenges to conceive, yet only 13% will access the care they need due to barriers like cost, stigma, and complexity. The demand is clear-cut: reducing the cost of treatment by 1% increases access by 3.2%. Globally, the fertility market represents a huge opportunity for radical innovation across financing and care delivery. 

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Gaia is establishing the go-to family-building brand, delivering comprehensive paths to parenthood – from egg & embryo freezing to IUI, IVF, shared motherhood, donor eggs/sperm, and in the future surrogacy and adoption – through a unique value-based care model. 

Value-based family building flips the script by taking the financial risk away from individuals. Today, Gaia promises the best treatment outcomes through handpicked clinic partnerships and wrap-around care and puts its money where its mouth is with financial solutions that charge members for results, not treatments. This is achieved through an AI model optimizing and predicting one’s chances of success with 90% accuracy. Gaia’s model was built with millions of data points from patients ranging from 155 nationalities across 4 continents and is continuously improved as more members build their families.  

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Today, a Gaia baby is born every 2.6 days. With Valar joining its stellar bench of investors, Gaia is gearing up its ultimate goal of 100 babies per day in the US.

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