Hertility

Big hormone health energy. ⚡️ We’re thrilled to announce that Octopus Energy has officially launched Hertility as an employee benefit. Octopus is known for looking toward the future, and that includes the health of their people. By bringing our clinical-grade testing and reproductive health support to their teams, they are ensuring their colleagues have the peace of mind and data they need to navigate their health journeys with confidence. Whether it's checking in on fertility, seeking expert clinical advice for symptoms or just curious to find out more, we’re here to help the Octopus team stay in the know with their bodies. 🐙 Find out more about how we work with businesses in the comments below! Emily Hall, Cynthia Chan, Katie Grant, Rachel Abbott 💛

It is time to stop telling women "it's all in your head!" For decades, our symptoms, from painful periods to fatigue, have been labeled as "normal" or "stress-related". This systematic dismissal is a barrier to the essential care we all deserve, but it ends with us 🫂. We analysed our data, and the results are a powerful wake-up call for healthcare. Our new Reproductive Report reveals that a woman’s instinct is actually a strong predictor of her diagnosis. In fact, 80.3% of women who suspected something was wrong received an indicative diagnosis after testing with Hertility ✨. True equity in healthcare starts with listening. The most radical thing a woman can do in 2026? Trust herself 🤍. Click the link in our comments to read the full Reproductive Report and join us in making some noise to close the gap 📣.

Last week at the Royal Society of Medicine, our CEO Dr Helen O'Neill unveiled the 2026 Reproductive Report. For too long, women’s health has been under-researched and underfunded. We’re changing that conversation by diving into the world’s largest dataset on women’s health to reveal five key pillars where urgent change is needed. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be unpacking these insights and the actions required to move women's health forward.✨ Can’t wait? The full report is available to download now in comments!

Underestimating the economic prowess of investing in women's health is absurd. We can help change lives and create lives. Meta's view: Women’s health = “inappropriate content” 🚫 Violent Manosphere Content = “approved” ✅ Meanwhile, Hertility can screen for 18 reproductive health conditions with 98–99% accuracy in 6 days, preventing years of misdiagnosis and saving healthcare systems trillions. But yes. Let’s call it Girl Math for anyone still struggling with the numbers. Because apparently the real “inappropriate content” is… women learning about their own bodies.

🚨 Our 2026 Workplace Health Report has officially hit the national headlines. Featured in The Independent, our data reveals a systemic failure that starts with the gender health gap and impacts the workplace. 🚨 The report highlighted that female employees are logging an average of five concurrent symptoms each, from pain and brain fog to anxiety. With 37% of the screened workforce showing at least one hormone out of range, these aren't niche women’s issues, they are universal workplace realities impacting performance and retention. Our co-founder Deirdre O'Neill told The Independent, “For too long, women have been told their symptoms are normal, emotional or just part of life. That narrative has allowed clinical gaps to persist for decades. The data now makes one thing clear: unmanaged biology is costing businesses talent. If we want healthier teams and sustainable growth, we need to stop minimising symptoms and start diagnosing them.” Between years-long healthcare waitlists and restrictive benefits that often structurally exclude hormonal and reproductive health, women are left without a clear pathway to care. We are changing the narrative that undermines female pain and treats reproductive health as an elective tick-box exercise. It is time to bridge the gap between medical dismissal and workplace support. Read the full feature in The Independent and join the 1,000+ leaders already using our data to build more equitable workplaces. Read the article: https://lnkd.in/ekPQqD_n

Over 1 in 5 women in the UK and Ireland don’t know how long their menstrual cycle is 🚨📉 1 in 3 women under 25 in the UK and Ireland don't know how long their menstrual cycle is. Groundbreaking new Hertility research had just been published in Reproductive Health, drawing on menstrual cycle data from 383,085 UK and Irish women aged 18–50, and the findings stopped us in our tracks. Here are the key findings: 📊 When we asked women to tell us their cycle length…over 1 in 5 women ( 22.2% ) didn’t know their cycle length. Among under-25s, that rose to 1 in 3. 📊 When we asked women to tell us their period length… 9.5% couldn't report their period length. 📊  Only 32.4% of women reported  a 28-day cycle, yet it remains the default in how we teach women.  📊 Even when women described their cycle as "regular," 4.9% actually fell outside the clinically recognised 21–35 day range. We also saw a clear pattern by age: cycle awareness improves through the mid-reproductive years, then drops again later, suggesting blind spots at both ends of the reproductive lifespan. Menstrual cycle patterns are increasingly recognised as a vital sign of health. Yet our data suggest that many women lack clarity about what is clinically “normal”, potentially delaying recognition of conditions such as PCOS, thyroid dysfunction, endometriosis, or other hormonal irregularities. Why does this matter? If someone doesn't know what's normal for them, how can they recognise when something changes? Conditions like PCOS, endometriosis, and thyroid dysfunction often signal themselves through cycle irregularities. Awareness can be the difference between early detection and years of delay. It can mean the difference between symptoms and solutions. Our data came from a health-engaged population. These aren't women disengaged from their health and still, baseline cycle knowledge couldn't be assumed. For clinicians, educators, policymakers, and digital health leaders, if we're serious about the menstrual cycle as a vital sign, we need to equip people to actually understand it. That means going beyond fertility-focused messaging and investing in lifelong menstrual health education, especially for young people. At Hertility, we believe every woman deserves to understand her body without guesswork. That’s why we’ve developed a personalised hormone and fertility diagnostic test, alongside a cycle and symptom tracking app, giving women the tools and data to take control of their reproductive health. 📖 Read the full open-access paper in Reproductive Health: https://lnkd.in/ec9mkuGN Huge congratulations to the team behind this work Dr Helen O'Neill, Dr Natalie Getreu, Zoya Ali, Sugha Murugesu, Silvia Morau, and Esther Wainwright, PhD. Research like this is how things change.

I’m proud to share that Hertility has been accepted into the NVIDIA Inception Programme, joining a global community of companies advancing the future of AI. This partnership marks an important step as we continue building toward a foundational AI platform for women’s health, one designed to ensure that 51% of the world finally benefits from data-driven medicine. Grateful to our brilliant Data & AI team and to the NVIDIA healthcare AI group for the collaboration and shared vision. We’re only just getting started. Chris Emerson, David Ruau, Marie Bessadi, Jonny Hancox, Lorna Brightmore, George Adams, Tulsi Patel, Jack Pickard, Deirdre O'Neill

🚨Breaking News from Hertility & NVIDIA If you're not familiar with them yet, Hertility is a reproductive health platform built on a mission to fix a longstanding gap in modern medicine. Women have been historically underrepresented in clinical research, and Hertility is addressing that head on, using data-driven diagnostics to give women genuine insight into their reproductive health, fertility, and hormonal wellbeing. What sets them apart is the depth of their data. They have built the largest global dataset on female reproductive health, with over 835,000 data variables, and they are now channeling that into something much bigger: a foundational AI platform for women's health. Their acceptance into the NVIDIA Inception Programme is a strong signal of where this is heading. The Programme connects high-potential AI startups with NVIDIA's technology, expertise and investor network, and healthcare is one of its fastest-growing verticals. This is not a vanity partnership. It is the kind of infrastructure that accelerates serious product development. From a market perspective, FemTech remains one of the most underfunded and underbuilt sectors relative to its addressable population. Companies like Hertility, backed by the right technology partners and a proprietary dataset of this scale, are well positioned to lead that shift. Very exciting to see the business develop further from this partnership! #FemTech #WomensHealth #HealthcareAI #NVIDIA #ReproductiveHealth #MedTech #DigitalHealth #Hertility #InceptionProgram