WHY UNIVFY?
Global experience in IVF success analytics*: Customized to each IVF center. Personalized to each fertility patient.
For IVF Providers
Univfy® is your one-stop for customized fertility analytics from personalized counseling to IVF refund program design.
For Fertility Patients
Univfy uses big data to empower your doctor to provide IVF success* and refund pricing to make IVF a reality for more patients like you.
Proven
to be more accurate than age-based estimates with error rate within 5% for most patients. We've set a high bar for validating IVF success predictions.
Powered
by experience from analyzing data from over 150,000 IVF cycles and 750,000 embryos from diverse populations across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia.
Passionate
about helping more patients just like you to get more affordable IVF treatments at top IVF centers.
FIRST- AND BEST-IN-CLASS
Univfy is the only validated IVF prediction platform that provides customized analysis and prediction tests for individual IVF centers.
We have continued to set the highest bar for measuring the accuracy and clinical utility of IVF success prediction reports.
Univfy Timeline
2005
Univfy founding team began their academic research in IVF prediction modeling at Stanford University.
2008
Univfy founding team published their first validated IVF prediction model.
• Univfy researchers identified powerful IVF success predictors.
Defining human embryo phenotypes by cohort-specific prognostic factors.
Jun SH§, Choi B§, Shahine L, Westphal LM, Behr B, Reijo Pera, Wong WH, Yao MWM. PLoS ONE 2008; 3(7):e2562. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.002562.
§Co-first authors.
2009
Dr. Mylene Yao and Professor Wing H. Wong co-founded Univfy.
2010
Univfy began operating as a company and focused on R&D in 2010-2012.
• Univfy IVF prediction models are 1,000 times more accurate than age-based estimates when you use patients’ personal profiles.*
Why the discrepancy? Because age-based predictions fail to consider important reproductive factors that more reliably predict IVF success. Likewise, other methods that analyze fertility factors independently do not consider the patient’s entire reproductive profile either. Univfy IVF Prediction Tests analyze an entire profile of reproductive factors to deliver the most accurate estimate of having a baby, whether from a first IVF or subsequent IVF treatment.
*Univfy IVF prediction models have 1,000 times bigger likelihood than age-based estimates. Alternatively, we measured the percentage improvement in predictive power by comparing the posterior log-likelihoods of each prediction model and its age-based prediction, against the baseline model. Univfy PreIVF shows a 36% improvement in predictive power over age-based prediction, while Univfy PredictIVF shows a 77% improvement in predictive power over age-based prediction.
Deep phenotyping to predict live birth outcomes in in vitro fertilization.
Banerjee P§, Choi B§, Shahine LK, Jun SH, O’Leary K, Lathi RB, Westphal LM, Wong WH, Yao MWM. PNAS 2010;107(31):13559-60. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1002296107. Epub 2010 Jul 19.
§Co-first authors.
2012
Univfy began providing customized IVF prediction tools to support eSET counseling to providers.
• Univfy researchers found that the probability of having twin births with IVF is specific to each patient’s profile and can be predicted.*
Predicting personalized multiple birth risks after in vitro fertilization-double embryo transfer.
Lannon BM§, Choi B§, Hacker MR, Dodge LE, Malizia BA, Barrett CB, , Wong WH, Yao MWM, Penzias AS. Fertil Steril 2012;98(1):69-76. doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.0411. Epub 2012 Jun 4.
§Co-first authors.
2013
Univfy launched Univfy PreIVFTM and Univfy PredictIVF® for both IVF providers and fertility patients.
These Univfy IVF Prediction Tests* were designed to be ready-to-use and did not require customization to a specific IVF provider.
• Univfy PreIVF is the most accurate predictor of IVF success for patients before they start their first IVF cycle.
Personalized prediction of first-cycle in vitro fertilization.
Choi B, Bosch E, Lannon BM, Leveille MD, Wong WH, Leader A, Pellicer A, Penzias AS, Yao MWM. Fertil Steril 2013;99(7):1905-11. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2013.02.016. Epub 2013 Mar 21.
2015
Univfy is customizing a visually intuitive Univfy IVF prediction report to each IVF center.
• Univfy and collaborators show the accuracy and power of a prediction model that uses the ovarian reserve marker, AMH, together with other predictors, to give accurate predicted probabilities of IVF success and the IVF success distribution of patients within a top IVF center.
Antimüllerian hormone levels and antral follicle count as prognostic indicators in a personalized prediction model of live birth.
Nelson SM, Fleming R, Gaudoin M, Choi B, Santo-Domingo K, Yao MWM. Fertil Steril 2015. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2015.04.032
2016
Univfy launched the Univfy-Powered IVF Refund Program**
•Univfy Voted Winner in Consumer Electronic Show 2016 The Bump Best of Baby Tech Awards in the Fertility Category
•Univfy CEO and Cofounder Dr. Mylene Yao honored at The Bump Moms: Movers + Makers Awards Luncheon, Los Angeles
•Univfy Selected To Join Springboard Tech Hub 2016
•Patent Issued in US, Israel: Methods and Systems for Assessment of Clinical Infertility
•Patent Issued in US, China: Method of Assessing Risk of Multiple Births in Infertility Treatments
2017
Univfy profiles IVF providers using the Univfy PreIVF Report*
•Dr. Mylene Yao honored among MM&M's Top 40 Healthcare Transformers
"Most reproductive clinics now offer special financing packages, like discounts for multiple I.V.F. cycles paid upfront, or options to have part of the fee refunded if you don’t become pregnant....Univfy, a company that sells I.V.F. prediction tests, has recently introduced a free online “I.V.F. cost calculator” that uses your probability of becoming pregnant to help you compare the cost of different financing options."
"Univfy’s prediction models actually show more than 60 percent of the women who use them have a higher probability of IVF success than their age-based estimates alone suggest.....I’m Ms. Prepared, so I like the idea of being realistic about what your chances of getting pregnant might be, because IVF always seems to be the great unknown."
"More than seven million people struggle with infertility in this country. Treatments are now widely available, but they can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Now a company based in Los Altos is offering women a personalized predictor of their chances of success with IVF."
"Many women in their late 30s and beyond turn to IVF, usually with little sense of whether the physically demanding and expensive treatments are likely to work. Services like Univfy are trying to help women understand their own fertility better....[Univfy] draws on detailed data from a five-year study of IVF patients and other predictive models to provide personalized information about an individual’s likelihood of conception."