Hope Fertility Support Center

What Hope Fertility Support Center does

Hope Fertility Support Center operates a web-based directory and marketplace platform (hopefsc.org) that aggregates listings of fertility clinics, physicians, women's health clinics, and reproductive health providers across the United States, with stated coverage of more than 2,700 clinics in 300+ cities. The platform is positioned to serve LGBTQ+ individuals and couples seeking family-building services including IVF treatments, egg and sperm donation, and surrogacy. Core products include a searchable clinic catalog organized by city and category, individual clinic profile pages with contact information, services, ratings, and reviews, a city directory, an aggregated review and photo corpus (claiming 85,000+ photos and 300,000+ reviews), and a personalized recommendation feature. The underlying technology is described as a standard self-serve web platform with no documented AI components, app presence, or proprietary algorithmic differentiation.

The business model appears to be a marketplace-style referral arrangement in which the platform generates revenue through clinic listings, visibility, and referral traffic to partnered fertility clinics, though pricing details are not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is product-led and entirely organic, relying on SEO-driven discovery rather than a direct sales force or paid acquisition. The primary customer segment is LGBTQ+ family-seekers, with the supply side consisting of independent fertility clinics across the US. Importantly, multiple pages on the live website carry explicit "DEMO version" notices referencing a Wayback Machine Downloader template, indicating that the site may be a template build or only partially operational rather than a scaled commercial product. Note that the firmographic record contains a conflicting description identifying Hope Fertility Support Center as a Winter Park, FL wellness center offering acupuncture, massage, supplements, and mental health counseling founded in 2017 — this description is inconsistent with the directory-platform profile supported by the structured data and website content, and should be reconciled before any investment decision.

No funding rounds, institutional investors, partnerships, certifications, awards, or patents are disclosed. The company is privately held, has 1-10 employees, and lists Koreen Baker as Founder and President. No management team beyond the founder is on record, and there are no disclosed revenue or financial metrics.

Name

Hope Fertility Support Center

Legal name

Hope Fertility Support Center

Website

https://hopefsc.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Hope Fertility Support Center operates a web-based directory platform connecting LGBTQ+ individuals and couples with fertility clinics across the United States. The site lists 2,700+ clinics in 300+ cities and provides reviews, photos, and personalized recommendations to support family-building decisions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fertility Services Directory

NAICS

Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Fertility, Reproductive Endocrinology & IVF Centers (HLAFAJAD)

Keywords

• Fertility clinic directory
• LGBTQ family building
• Reproductive health services
• IVF clinic listings
• Surrogacy and donor services

Headquarters

HQ city

Winter Park

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Clinic Directory Referrals: The platform connects fertility clinics with LGBTQ+ families seeking fertility services. Revenue appears to be generated through clinic listings, visibility, and referral traffic to partnered fertility clinics.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Hope Fertility Support Center operates a web-based directory and marketplace platform that connects LGBTQ+ individuals and couples with over 2,700 certified fertility clinics across 300+ U.S. cities. The platform provides searchable clinic profiles, patient reviews, photos, and personalized recommendations focused on IVF treatments, donor services, and surrogacy options for family-building. Revenue is generated through clinic directory listings, visibility, and referral traffic to partnered fertility clinics.

Product overview

Hope Fertility Support Center operates as a unified directory and marketplace platform (hopefsc.org) that connects LGBTQ+ families with fertility care services. The platform aggregates over 2,700 certified fertility clinics across the USA and provides complementary features including a searchable city-based clinic catalog, detailed clinic profile pages with ratings and reviews, expert advice content, and personalized recommendations. The core offering is the clinic directory paired with patient reviews and recommendation tools, all focused on serving LGBTQ+ family-building needs including IVF treatments, donor services, and surrogacy options.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hope Fertility Support Center Platform A directory and marketplace platform connecting LGBTQ+ individuals and couples with over 2,700 certified fertility clinics across the USA, offering specialized IVF treatments, donor services, and surrogacy options.
• Fertility Clinic Catalog A searchable catalog of fertility clinics, fertility physicians, women's health clinics, and reproductive health clinics organized by city across the United States, enabling users to browse clinics by category and location.
• City Directory A directory of cities across the USA where fertility clinics and services are available, enabling location-based searches for LGBTQ+ family-building services and covering 300+ cities.
• Clinic Profile Pages Individual detailed pages for fertility clinics and physicians featuring contact information, working hours, services, patient reviews, ratings, photos, and accessibility information to support informed clinic selection.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• The Bump: The Bump is a mainstream pregnancy and family-planning resource with provider listings. It is comparable as a digital family-building destination but is not LGBTQ+-specific.
• Healthgrades: Healthgrades is a large-scale US provider directory with ratings and reviews across specialties including fertility. It competes in the same clinic-discovery category but does not focus on the LGBTQ+ niche.
• Zocdoc: Zocdoc is a leading US healthcare-provider directory and booking platform. It is a broader incumbent that could replicate LGBTQ+ filtering, and competes with Hope FSC for any monetizable clinic-discovery intent.

Direct peers

• IVF Options: IVF Options is a US fertility-clinic directory and information resource. It is a direct comparable on the clinic-discovery model, although it does not focus exclusively on the LGBTQ+ segment.
• Gays With Kids: Gays With Kids is a content and resource platform serving gay/bi men on their path to fatherhood. It overlaps with Hope FSC's LGBTQ+ family-building audience and could expand into clinic referrals.
• FertilityIQ: FertilityIQ is a fertility-clinic reviews and information platform helping patients evaluate IVF clinics and doctors. It directly overlaps Hope FSC's clinic directory and patient-review core functionality, though it is not LGBTQ+-specific.

Others

• Family Equality: Family Equality is a leading US LGBTQ+ family-building advocacy nonprofit. It is comparable as a destination for LGBTQ+ prospective parents and an adjacent resource, but does not operate a clinic directory.

Emerging players

• Carrot Fertility: Carrot Fertility sells employer-sponsored fertility benefits, including LGBTQ+-inclusive coverage. It overlaps in serving the same end-user for fertility services and could conceivably build or acquire a clinic-discovery layer.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/hopefsc
• Facebookfacebook.com/hopefsc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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