The recent death of Mary "May" McGee, the brave woman who took the landmark 1973 case on access to contraception in Ireland, was in the forefront of my mind for several days. Any woman who is popping her daily contraceptive pill or buying condoms without a second thought owes her a great debt. Men who have undergone vasectomies may not necessarily know to whom they owe their great debt, as such.
Jack Fertility, an Oxford-based men's healthtech startup, has raised more than £500,000 in pre-seed funding to launch Snip Check, the UK's first home-to-lab postal vasectomy test kit, and accelerate development of its broader range of male reproductive health solutions. The round was led by Fuel Ventures, with participation from Microsoft angels, Alma Angels, The Beam Network, Moonstone Venture Capital, FemTech Lab, Founders Factory's Reckitt Benkiser Accelerator, and the Oxford Seed Fund.