Jack Fertility: Jack has finally launched!
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 Oxford 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 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.
As a longtime member of the BioUK community and a life-sciences company built and run in Oxford, Jack Fertility are keen to connect with the network whether that’s spreading the word, exploring Jackit as a staff benefit, or collaborating with them on the wider challenge of getting men to engage with their health earlier. And as a thank-you to the BioUK community: use code BIOUK40 for your own test and get £40 off your kit.
