Last deal

$55M

Amount

Series C

Stage

30.05.2024

Date

3

all rounds

$99.5M

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date founded

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About Company
Natural Cycles is a contraceptive app that uses an algorithm to predict which days women are fertile during their monthly cycle..

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Natural Cycles App

founded date

01.06.2013

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series C

IPO status

Private

Description

Natural Cycles offers a subscription product that empowers women with knowledge about their body, menstrual cycle, and fertility. The app uses an algorithm-based system that takes into account various factors such as ovulation, fertility, sperm survival, temperature fluctuations, past cycles, and cycle irregularities to predict the user's fertility status. The app provides an in-app color-coded calendar that informs users if they could have unprotected sex on a given day or not. The company believes that every woman should know how her cycle works, and they work hard to provide the best possible solution. Natural Cycles has a growing user base and is always looking for passionate talents to help them strive for change in the complex and controversial field of female reproductive health. The company is based in Stockholm and has a tight-knit international team.
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Dr. Elina Berglund is the co-founder and co-CEO of Natural Cycles the fertility app which allows women to help prevent, plan and monitor pregnancies. As a top physicist, Elina was part of the team that discovered the Higgs boson at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland, which lead to the Nobel Prize in physics in 2013. Following this success, Elina and her husband, co-founder of Natural Cycles, Dr Raoul Scherwitzl, were looking for an effective natural contraceptive. With few natural family planning options on the market, and a desire to avoid the side effects of the pill, Elina decided to apply her mathematical techniques to create an advanced algorithm that could accurately pinpoint when a woman was fertile - and this was turned into an app so all couples could benefit from their innovation. Elina and Raoul’s mission is to educate and empower women worldwide to take control of their fertility and future, championing a vision where every pregnancy brings happiness. Today, Natural Cycles is the first, and only, app to be certified as a contraception, and has been shown in clinical studies to be similarly effective as the contraceptive pill. The app has over 500,000 users in 161 countries.

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Elina Berglund

Elina Berglund Scherwitzl
Elina Berglund Scherwitzl

Elina Berglund Scherwitzl

Originally a particle physicist who pursued research at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland for 6 years, Elina was one of the leading researchers that discovered the Higgs boson, which lead to a Nobel Prize in physics 2013. After discovering the Higgs, Elina quit her science job to focus on women’s reproductive health. She then developed the algorithm behind Natural Cycles an effective and user friendly natural birth control method. Through analysing women’s body temperature the Natural Cycles mobile app identifies women’s fertile days for the purpose of both preventing and planning a pregnancy. Additionally, pregnant women monitor their temperature in the app to early detect sinking hormonal levels to be able to prevent a possible miscarriage. Elina continues to pursue research through Natural Cycles, and has now published two clinical studies concerning women’s reproductive health in a peer review journal. In January 2017 Natural Cycles became the first approved contraceptive app.

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Head of brand and communications

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Elina Berglund

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