Addressing the maternity care crisis through safer tooling for emergency childbirth.

Giving OB/GYNs the confidence to choose
assisted vaginal delivery over unplanned C-section.

Supported by

The Problem

Assisted vaginal delivery tools are a physician's last line of defense before an unplanned C-section — yet they often go unused.

1 Million

U.S. births end in C-section annually — carrying 5× higher maternal mortality risk, 3× higher hemorrhage risk, and adding $13B in costs per year.

Assisted vaginal delivery rate today, down from 9%. Physicians default to C-section because existing tools are hard to use, cause injury, and offer no procedural feedback.

The Solution

Innovating maternal care with soft robotics

We're developing a flexible, sensor-guided device designed to take the guess work out of assisted vaginal deliveries.

Design Concept

Traction

200+

Interviews with our stakeholders, including physicians, mothers, and midwives

$160K

Non-dilutive funding

Team

Maryam Tebyani, PhD

CEO & Co-founder

Breanna Baltaxe-Admony, PhD

COO & Co-founder

Neda Ghaffari, MD

Medical Advisor

Jim Swick, PhD

Preclinical Advisor

News

LinkedIn · Impact1 Biodesign

Maryam Tebyani shares Stork Labs' vision at Impact1's inaugural CEO Summit

Santa Cruz Works

Stork Labs is featured by Santa Cruz Works

UCSF–Stanford Pediatric Device Consortium

Stork Labs awarded at UCSF–Stanford Pediatric Device Consortium pitch competition

Please email us to inquire about a collaboration, or simply say hello.

team@stork-labs.com