Lōvu Health, a digital platform focused on improving maternal healthcare, has secured $8 million in Series A funding to scale its services across the United States. The round was led by SJF Ventures and included support from several mission-driven investors such as Rogue Women’s Fund, Symphonic Capital, Emmeline Ventures, and Alumni Ventures. The funding will help Lōvu enhance its AI capabilities, expand its team, and launch new features designed to improve outcomes for mothers and babies.
The platform is designed to support women from pre-conception through two years postpartum, offering continuous and personalized care. Lōvu integrates real-time remote monitoring with specialty services, enabling clinicians to detect and respond to health concerns more effectively. It also provides 24/7 support and connects patients to a curated marketplace of over 50 third-party providers offering services like lactation consulting, mental health counseling, doula support, and pelvic floor therapy.
Lōvu’s approach addresses significant gaps in the current maternal care system, which often fails to identify risks early and leaves many women without adequate support. The platform has already demonstrated success in identifying conditions like preeclampsia and chronic hypertension earlier than traditional models. It has helped uncover mental health issues in a significant portion of its user base.
By streamlining care coordination and reducing administrative burdens, Lōvu also supports overworked clinicians, particularly in underserved areas where access to OB/GYNs is limited. The company’s AI-powered dashboard tracks key health indicators and alerts providers to changes, enabling more proactive and personalized care.
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“Our current one-size-fits-all maternal care model is failing moms and babies. Every expectant mother and her baby deserve equitable access to precision care guided by innovative technology and evidence-based insights. Lōvu’s AI-powered platform transforms workflows and modernizes clinical practices, helping clinicians closely monitor patients and intervene earlier when necessary, while offering wraparound support that changes the way we bring life into this world.”
Noel Pugh, co-founder and CEO at Lōvu Health
“The existing maternal care model in the United States leads to significant care gaps, especially because we do a poor job adequately identifying risk for pregnancies where additional care is needed. Lōvu’s technology transforms the patient experience throughout pregnancy and postpartum. Every mother’s journey is tailored to her individual needs, and our care navigators and trusted marketplace ensure mothers can quickly access best-in-class services. We deliver actionable data for clinicians that drives prevention rather than crisis mitigation and results in improved outcomes for mother, baby, and family.”
Dr. Santosh Pandipati, co-founder and Chief Health Officer at Lōvu Health
“SJF has had a long-standing interest in maternal health and Lōvu has stood out to us for years as we see the company’s care extension of the obstetrician’s office plus a novel marketplace of partnered specialty solutions as the optimal ‘win-win-win’ strategy for providers, health plans, and mothers. Pairing the company’s recent momentum with broader trends right now around increasingly alarming rates of maternal complications and mortality, we are proud to be partnering with Lōvu to drive critical change and impact to maternal care in this country.”
Perry Clarkson, Partner at SJF Ventures
