Gaia

Gaia counts 30 employees and 14 nationalities — and our differences are loudly celebrated internally as well as externally with our brand, actively representing diverse families.

While most fertility financing solutions stop at “standard IVF”, Gaia covers egg donor IVF, sperm donor IVF and shared motherhood IVF, providing same-sex couples and single parents with equal access to parenthood.

Gaia’s board of directors is composed of founder Nader and 2 women — Sasha Astafyeva from Kindred Capital and Leila Zegna from Atomico. Women are also well represented at the company with ~70% women hired, at our C-suite level (COO, CMO, Chief of Staff) and within Gaia’s data and engineering team, a traditionally male dominated field.

Gaia was founded in 2020, as a response to our Founder Nader AlSalim and his wife’s personal difficulty with IVF: it took three clinics in two countries, and £50,000 over four years to conceive. Creating the start-up from a patient experience perspective helps us to solve the challenges of intended parents.

We have raised funds from high-profile investors (Kindred, Atomico, Optum Ventures), and we are continuing to focus on fertility health across society. We are positioned to disrupt this market and make a real difference to the lives of intended parents.

We're a company built on helping people, improving a currently broken system and we have organically created a wonderful space to work with incredibly impressive people. We care deeply, our Members are always in mind and we're always considerate of our wider team.