After two years of R&D at Oxford’s Wood Centre for Innovation, the Jack Fertility team have launched the Jackit™, the UK’s only sperm test you can post from any postbox. No clinic. No appointment. No awkward waiting room. You collect a sample at home, drop it in the post, and their proprietary SpermShield™ technology keeps it stable in transit until it reaches their lab. Here’s why it matters: male factors play a role in up to half of all fertility struggles, yet men rarely get tested until it’s a last resort. The good news is that sperm regenerates roughly every three months, so testing early gives you time to understand your baseline and make targeted changes if needed.
Results land in a secure digital portal: clear lab numbers (count, motility, morphology and more), personalised lifestyle insights, and a shareable report for your GP or clinician. Their GenAI assistant, Ask Jack, explains it all in plain English: no jargon, no judgment. “Men’s health is still shrouded in silence, and that silence stops people acting early,” says Nick Shipley, co-founder of Jack Fertility. “We built the Jackit so checking your sperm health is as easy as posting a letter.”
The team celebrated their launch alongside The Hill Team and Advanced Oxford at the House of Lords last month, and early traction has been strong. Employers are already offering Jackit as a staff benefit, and orders are arriving from across the UK. If you share their mission to get men talking more openly about sperm health, they’d love to hear from you, whether that’s spreading the word, exploring the test as a workplace benefit, or collaborating with them. There’s so much still to do in this important area.
Jack Fertility participated and graduated from our Pre-Seed Programme in 2023, which was designed for early-stage companies and individuals with great ideas who just needed some guidance to convert these ideas and concepts into the brilliant solutions and companies they could be.
As a thank-you for the support from TheHill community has shown the company over the years, Jack Fertility are offering over a 40% discount, which brings the cost of a test down to just £99. Use code HILL99 when ordering from the Jack Fertility website.