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The UK’s Fastest-Growing Fertility Clinic Begins International Expansion, Bringing the World’s Most Digitally Advanced AI-Powered Fertility Model to Brazil

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Avenues expands internationally through a strategic partnership with Brazil’s leading fertility experts.

LONDON and SÃO PAULO, July 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Avenues, the UK’s fastest-growing fertility clinic, today announced the launch of Avenues Brazil in São Paulo, marking the company’s first international expansion and the next step in its mission to make world-class fertility care more accessible through artificial intelligence, digital innovation and compassionate care.

Only two years after opening its flagship clinic in London, Avenues has become the UK’s fastest-scaling fertility provider and is preparing to open its second UK clinic in Cambridge in autumn. Now, through a strategic partnership with four of Brazil’s most respected leaders in reproductive medicine, the company is bringing its pioneering model of care to Latin America.

Built to Scale Compassion Without Compromising Quality

When Dr Cristina Hickman founded Avenues in January 2024, the ambition was never simply to build another IVF clinic. It was to create a new blueprint for fertility care, one that combines world-leading embryology, artificial intelligence, robotics, complete digitalisation and compassionate care into a model that can be replicated globally without compromising quality.

Purpose-built from the ground up, every Avenues clinic operates on a fully digital platform that captures more clinical and operational data than any IVF clinic worldwide. Artificial intelligence supports clinicians by reducing administrative burden, optimising laboratory and clinical workflows, personalising patient care and continuously improving decision making. The result is a more efficient clinic, a better patient experience and greater access to high-quality fertility treatment.

Its modular clinic design enables rapid expansion while maintaining identical clinical standards across every location, allowing Avenues to scale without compromising the quality of care that defines the brand. That vision has translated into unprecedented growth.

Since opening in 2024, Avenues has experienced unprecedented growth, now performing approximately 170 egg collections every month, more than 2,000 annually, making it one of the UK’s largest private fertility clinics by treatment volume. The clinic has reached a scale achieved by only a handful of established fertility centres, most of which have taken decades to reach this level, while Avenues has delivered year-on-year growth of more than 227%..

Benchmarking against HFEA-registered clinic data suggests that no UK private fertility clinic has documented a comparable growth rate.

“Our ambition was never to build one exceptional clinic,” said Dr Cristina Hickman, Founder of Avenues, the 13th IVF clinic she built. “It was to build a model capable of bringing exceptional fertility care to millions more people. Technology should never replace compassion, it should amplify it. By removing inefficiencies, giving clinicians better information and creating a truly connected patient journey, we can deliver better care, better outcomes and make fertility treatment more accessible. Brazil is the first step in building a global network of AI-enabled fertility centres.”

A Partnership Built on Shared Excellence

Brazil is recognised internationally for excellence in reproductive medicine, with a long history of scientific innovation and clinical leadership.

Avenues Brazil brings together four highly respected leaders whose expertise spans clinical care, embryology, laboratory science, healthcare innovation and operational excellence.

Dr Edson Lo Turco | internationally recognised reproductive scientist and embryologist with more than 25 years of experience leading innovation, research and laboratory excellence in assisted reproduction.Bernardo Lamounier de Moura | healthcare entrepreneur, clinical embryologist and fertility executive specialising in laboratory operations, governance and scaling high-performing reproductive medicine organisations.Dr Luis Balducci | leading reproductive physician specialising in assisted reproduction, fertility preservation and complex fertility care.Fernando Prado Ferreira | CEO with more than 13 years of leadership experience driving innovation, digital transformation and strategic growth in reproductive healthcare.

Together, they will combine Brazilian clinical excellence with Avenues’ AI-native operating platform to create one of Latin America’s most technologically advanced fertility centres.

“Brazil has some of the world’s finest reproductive specialists,” said Fernando Prado Ferreira. “Avenues has developed one of the world’s most advanced fertility platforms. Bringing those strengths together gives us an extraordinary opportunity, not simply to open another clinic, but to redefine what patients should expect from fertility care. Together, we will build care where technology enhances every decision at every interaction and every patient journey.”

Dr Hickman added:

“Nearly fifty years ago, IVF transformed medicine forever. We believe artificial intelligence will transform how that medicine is delivered over the next fifty. This is not about replacing people with technology. It is about giving exceptional clinicians the tools they need to spend more time caring for patients while intelligent systems continuously improve every part of the patient journey. Our goal is simple: to make outstanding fertility care more accessible and more personal for families around the world.”

About Avenues

Founded in London in 2024 by Dr Cristina Hickman, Avenues is redefining fertility care through artificial intelligence, complete digital transformation and world-leading reproductive science.

The HFEA-licensed clinic has become the UK’s fastest-growing fertility clinic by treatment volume and the first to integrate AI throughout the entire patient journey. Its unique combination of intelligent technology, compassionate care, modular clinic design and advanced embryology is creating a scalable model for the future of fertility treatment.

Following the success of its flagship London clinic, Avenues is expanding across the United Kingdom and internationally,  with its second UK clinic opening in Cambridge in autumn 2026,  while Avenues Brazil marks Avenues’ first international partnership.

 

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He Sold Everything and Moved to Colombia for Her. Then Built the Translator They Needed and Named It After Her.

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Nayerly, a patent-pending iPhone app, is the first translator both people can talk over at once. Fully offline, 22 languages.

EDMONDS, Wash., Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Michael Wilson sold everything he owned and left the US for Colombia to be with the woman he loved. They did not share a language.

Every translator they tried forced them to take turns: one speaks, stops, waits for playback, and only then can the other answer. It worked. It also turned every conversation into a transaction.

So he built his own, alone, and named it after her. Nayerly is now on the App Store.

Nayerly is full duplex, meaning it listens and speaks at the same time instead of taking turns. The app keeps listening while it is speaking, so you can talk over the translation, and it keeps listening when more than one person talks, so two people can talk over each other and it still works. No phone passed back and forth. It works like a personal interpreter sitting between you.

“Every other translator is a walkie-talkie. You talk, you stop, you wait,” Wilson said. “I built this so I could speak better with someone I love. That is the only way you make a real connection. It works so well you forget you are using it and start talking over each other.”

Everything runs on the device. All 22 language models download during setup, so it works with no Wi-Fi and no signal – on a plane, abroad, off the grid – and no audio ever leaves the phone. Hands-free works with any AirPods, not just the premium ones.

Key features:

– Full duplex: listens and speaks at the same time, so you can talk over the translation and over each other
– 100% offline in 22 languages, including Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi and Ukrainian
– Hands-free with any AirPods
– Private by design: audio is never recorded or stored
– Free to download, 10 minutes of translation daily

Unlimited use is $1.99 per month during launch, billed annually. A one-time lifetime option includes Apple Family Sharing. New languages will be added in future updates at no additional cost to existing users.

Videos of Wilson and his girlfriend using Nayerly in Colombia, both speaking at once in English and Spanish, are on Instagram at instagram.com/nayerlyapp and TikTok at tiktok.com/@nayerlyapp.

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On the App Store for iPhone now: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6762064110
More: https://nayerly.com 

About Nayerly
Nayerly is an independent iPhone app built alone by Michael Wilson and named for the woman he built it for. It exists so two people without a shared language can just talk.

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Eleven GovTech Startups Named to Pitch at State of GovTech 2026

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Companies from across the country will pitch live to government and investor judges in Montgomery County, Maryland, September 9–10. Registration is free for government employees.

SILVER SPRING, Md., Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CivStart today announced the eleven startups selected to pitch at State of GovTech 2026, the organization’s seventh annual national govtech summit, taking place September 9–10 at the Silver Spring Civic Building in Montgomery County, Maryland.

The selected companies span permitting, public safety, emergency management, grant administration, constituent services, and civic infrastructure finance. They will pitch live on the main stage to a judging panel drawn from local government, county technology leadership, and the govtech investment community.

The 2026 Startup Cohort

Appellate  (Bentonville, AR) — system of record for police towing and vehicle custodyAyla  (Washington, D.C.) — public-sector recruiting on a live government labor-market data engineCODICE  (Washington, D.C.) — no-code permitting, licensing, and inspections platformGostly  (Westminster, MD) — real-time command center for urban infrastructureGrantwell  (Los Angeles, CA) — AI grant management across the full lifecycleGreen Stream Technologies (Wake Forest, NC) — flood and weather early warning systemsGovstream  (Seattle, WA) — AI-driven permitting intakeLabrynth  (US, Australia, EU, UK) — AI-native regulatory intelligence for permittingManyBond — crowdfinancing for community-supported local investmentReadyly  (Connecticut) — agentic AI resolving resident inquiries across every channelSamora AI  (Bellevue, WA) — multilingual voice AI for citizen information lines

The Judging Panel

Hillary Orr, Deputy Director of Transportation, City of Alexandria, Virginia Rita Reynolds, Director of Public Sector, CAI Thao Hill, Co-Founder and CEO, Govinity Tom Spenger, CEO, SOVRA Eyal Feder-Levy, CEO, Zencity

The pitch competition is one part of a two-day agenda built around working sessions rather than passive programming. Attendees draft AI use policies, run live cybersecurity breach simulations, and bring unresolved problems from their own jurisdictions to work through with peers.

State of GovTech 2026 is expected to draw more than 200 attendees, split roughly evenly between public sector leaders and the entrepreneurs, investors, and industry practitioners who serve them. The venue sits directly on the Washington Metro, and registration is free for government employees. Full agenda and registration at civstart.com/sogt26.

About CivStart

CivStart is a govtech organization connecting government leaders with the technology solutions and entrepreneurs solving public sector challenges. Through its accelerator programs, industry events, and products including Clarity and GovFit, CivStart helps state and local governments define their challenges and find partners equipped to solve them. State of GovTech is CivStart’s flagship annual summit, now in its seventh year. Learn more at civstart.com.

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Goodix Unveils New Generation Touch Screen Controllers for Medium and Large Displays

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SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Goodix has launched its new-generation GT9976 series of high-performance touch screen controllers for medium and large displays, targeting premium flexible OLED tablets, foldable smartphone main screens, and other smart devices. Delivering major upgrades in gaming control, touch performance in challenging environments, and active stylus support, the series enables device makers to create differentiated large-screen products for gaming, work, and learning.

As an early commercial deployment of the series, Lenovo’s latest Legion Y700 Wuji gaming flagship tablet and Tab Pen Pro 2 integrate Goodix’s innovative portfolio, including the GT9976N touch screen controller, an active stylus driver chip, and an ultra-narrow side-key capacitive fingerprint sensor, to deliver a more responsive and immersive user experience.

Faster Response for Smoother Large-Screen Interaction

High-refresh-rate displays used in competitive gaming place greater demands on touch response and data processing. The GT9976 series features Goodix’s proprietary full-screen parallel sensing architecture, which achieves a higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) within a shorter scan time — significantly accelerating finger-signal capture and processing efficiency.

Supporting 7- to 9.5-inch flexible OLED displays, the new series delivers industry-leading touch report rates and instant sampling rates. From everyday browsing and app switching to sudden stops, sharp turns and rapid multi-taps in high-frame-rate games, the GT9976 series ensures smooth, precise, and highly responsive touch interaction.

Reliable, High-Precision Touch Performance in Demanding Conditions

To address the noise interference from flexible OLED panels under heavy system loads, the GT9976 series adopts an industry-leading high-noise-suppression analog front end (AFE) sampling architecture that doubles SNR over the previous generation. Combined with Goodix’s proprietary gaming algorithms, the controllers accurately identify valid touch signals even in complex noise environments, delivering stable, precise coordinate data at all times.

In demanding scenarios such as FPS, MOBA and rhythm games, the GT9976 series combines a higher SNR, high-speed scanning and sampling, and enhanced real-time noise monitoring with frequency-hopping technology to enable faster tap response and stable multi-finger control without jitter or drift. This improves responsiveness and tracking accuracy for pixel-level actions such as flick aiming, recoil control, combo execution and movement.

The series also integrates advanced dual-mode self- and mutual-capacitance sensing with complementary algorithms to improve palm rejection, effectively reducing false touches caused by grip and edge contact. Dedicated optimization for sweaty hands, wet fingers and gaming finger sleeves helps maintain sensitive and stable touch performance under challenging real-world conditions.

Enhanced Active Stylus Support for Productivity and Creativity

For mobile productivity, education and professional drawing, the GT9976 series also delivers significantly enhanced active stylus performance. When paired with Goodix active stylus driver chip, the solution supports a 360Hz pen report rate. Together with Goodix’s proprietary stylus anti-interference algorithm, it achieves outstanding linearity and precision — accurately reproducing every stroke for tasks such as note-taking, fine annotation, sketching, and handwriting practice.

For flagship OLED tablets with large screens, Goodix also offers the GT7A series, which supports display sizes ranging from 10 to 14 inches while delivering the same high overall performance, further strengthening its portfolio for mid- to large-size touch applications. Both the GT9976 and GT7A series have been validated by leading device brands and display panel manufacturers, and are set to be adopted in foldable smartphones, gaming tablets, and slim flagship tablets — enabling smoother, more precise, and more reliable large-screen interaction.

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