The Dinner That Launched a Company An Inspiring Story

Claire Tomkins, founder and CEO of Future Family, shares her personal journey from solving problems in frozen barns to raising over $500M in capital, driven.

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Claire Tomkins, founder and CEO of Future Family, shares her personal journey from solving problems in frozen barns to raising over $500M in capital, driven by her personal IVF journey and vision to scale access to fertility care.

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Well, obviously that was that was over a dinner. You know, you were at that time pregnant with your with your with your daughter Natalie. Uh, and it was over a dinner with your husband where, you know, the business plan that you had originally thought about, you know, completely got scrapped and and a new one, you know, and a new idea and obviously your company that you're pushing now was born. So, what happened on that dinner? Yeah, it was a very fateful dinner. I remember it well. We were um in a small restaurant and it you know having dinner and a glass of wine and I obviously had said oh my gosh this is isn't this so crazy that we just went through this fertility journey that's changing our whole lives and for me it was really a difficult journey and by the way you know Natalie's now 10 and so at the beginning of this people didn't talk about this so much it wasn't necessarily all

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