Affordable at-home fertility treatment - Tess Cosad of Béa Fertility

<p>Tess Cosad, the co-founder and CEO of Bea Fertility. A company making fertility care more convenient and affordable. The company is leveraging a method called IntraCervical Insemination or ICI, which has proven to actually have a 50% success rate at only a 10th of the cost of IVF.</p><p><b>EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS</b></p><ul><li>[0:30] Tess Cosad’s background.</li><li>[1:56] Fertility &amp; Infertility, who actually has this problem?</li><li>[3:43] How do existing solutions work?</li><li>[6:27] Why was IUI the go-to treatment?</li><li>[9:07] Strategy behind bringing back the treatment into the market </li><li>[12:03] Challenges and barriers in launching the product</li><li>[14:57] Success factors for the business</li><li>[17:48] Experiences during a biassed system during fundraising</li><li>[19:52] Advice for other female founders in that field of work</li><li>[20:55] Challenges or lessons in building a company </li><li>[25:23] Thoughts on learning and same time navigating dysregulated environment</li><li>[27:42] How do you navigate customer feedback vs your perspective</li><li>[30:15] Future challenges that you need to overcome to make a step forward</li><li>[32:42] Tess’s 10-year vision  </li></ul><p><b>KEY LESSONS &amp; QUOTES</b></p><ul><li>“ Fertility is not a women&apos;s health issue, and when we make it that we take away the responsibility from men, for their fertility” [2:32]</li><li>“In the US you&apos;re looking at 3,4, $5,000 for a round of IUI. What we&apos;re trying to do is deliver this treatment straight to people&apos;s homes for a 5th to a 10th of the cost of IVF. ” [4:40]</li><li>”90% of treatments, require heterosexual intercourse, to be used. What that means is people for whom intercourse is not a part of their family building story, cant benefit from the treatment” [10:21]</li></ul><a rel="payment" href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/impacthustlers">Support the show</a>