Finding fertile ground where start-ups make a difference – The Times

Will Gibbs came to LinkedIn six months ago with a question. “Thinking about family planning as an engaged gay man is harder than I thought,” the healthcare investor at Octopus Ventures said. “We have spent a great deal of time speaking with, and ultimately investing in, some of the most prominent global fertility businesses — but very few see LGBT as their central strategy, which I find curious and wonder if we will see this change.” He wanted to know: could his contacts recommend entrepreneurs building fertility or health businesses for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people?

In the United States, companies such as FOLX Health, a digital healthcare start-up aimed at these communities, and Plume, which provides online gender-affirming hormone therapy, have formed