Meet Future Fertility

They built AI that reads a single egg and tells you something age and egg count never could.

If you've looked into freezing your eggs or starting IVF, you've met the two numbers everyone leans on: your age, and how many eggs you got. Those numbers are useful, but they're averages. Two people the same age with the same egg count can have very different odds, and until recently there was no way to see that difference before the eggs went in the freezer.

Future Fertility is a Toronto company built around that gap, and it started with a personal one. Co-founder Rene Bharti and his wife went through IVF, and their daughter Violet was the result. Along the way they found that sperm get graded and embryos get graded, but nobody could tell them anything about the quality of the eggs themselves. Reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Dan Nayot saw that AI could read an egg in ways the human eye can't. In 2018 they built the first tool to score egg quality and named it Violet.

Here's how it works. Their tools take a photo of each egg, already part of the lab's normal process, and run it through an AI model trained on more than 650,000 egg images and what became of them. You get back a per-egg quality read: how likely each egg is to fertilize and grow into a blastocyst, which is an embryo at day five to seven. No extra needles, no extra risk to your eggs. It ...