The most bioactive moment in human biology. Preserved.

Precision preservation of nature's most complex medicine.

Seven biological fractions. Each one optimized.

Your placenta contains structural proteins, growth factors, hormones, minerals, and living stem cells — all in one tissue. Current services grind them together. We separate them first, then optimize each fraction for the route your body can actually use. The living cells get banked. Nothing gets wasted.

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Pre-launch · No product for sale · No therapeutic claims

The Problem

Here's what's being thrown away at every birth.

The placenta is the most molecularly complex biological material the human body produces. It contains billions of stem cells, the highest hormone concentrations of a woman's lifetime, growth factor concentrations found nowhere else in the body, and living cells that will never be reproducible from any other source. Current services grind it all together, dry it, and capsule it — compromising every fraction it contains.

1

Proteins Need Acid

Collagen, fibronectin, and elastin need stomach acid to break down into usable peptides. That same acid destroys the growth factors sitting right next to them in a whole-ground capsule. One needs the environment that kills the other.

2

Growth Factors Need Protection

EGF, VEGF, and other signaling molecules need enteric protection to survive transit through the stomach. But enteric coating blocks the very acid your proteins need. You can protect one or digest the other. Not both.

3

Living Cells Need Cold

Freeze-drying kills every living cell it touches. The maternal stem cells in your placental tissue — available only from this one birth, never again — go into medical waste. That's the only component that could have been banked for you.

The existing market has demand but no scientific credibility. "Premium" still means better packaging around the same unfractionated product.

The Moonbox Approach

Your biology. Optimized.

Think about what's actually in placental tissue: structural proteins, bioactive peptides, growth factors, hormones, minerals, and living cells. Each one is processed differently by the body. Each one needs a different preservation method and a different delivery route. So we separate them first.

01 Structural proteins Standard capsule — benefits from normal digestive enzymes
02 Bioactive peptides Enteric-coated — protected through the stomach
03 Growth factor concentrate Alternative delivery — bypasses GI degradation
04 Iron & mineral fraction Timed-release — avoids absorption competition
05 Hormone fraction Labeled separately — your choice to include or exclude
06 Lipid & fatty acid fraction Soft-gel — protects oxidation-sensitive molecules
07 Cellular fraction Cryopreserved at −196°C — banked, not consumed
The cellular fraction is the only one that cannot be consumed. Live cells require cryopreservation. Current services that freeze-dry the whole placenta are destroying the only component with long-term banking potential—your own mesenchymal stem cells, available only from this birth.

What We're Building

The science we've been waiting for. Applied to the tissue we've been wasting.

Fractionated Capsule Kit

True lyophilization — not heat dehydration. Trehalose stabilization to preserve molecular integrity. Sequential separation so each fraction gets the capsule type and coating it actually needs. You receive a complete labeled kit, not a single undifferentiated pill.

  • Fractionated, not whole-ground
  • Each fraction labeled with contents and delivery rationale
  • Professional processing under rigorous protocol
  • Pathogen testing included

Maternal Stem Cell Banking

Your own mesenchymal stem cells, from your own placental tissue, cryopreserved at −196°C. This is a one-time collection window. Once the placenta is discarded, these cells are gone. We think that's worth preserving.

  • Your own cells, from your own tissue
  • Cryopreserved at −196°C in liquid nitrogen
  • Available as an add-on to capsule processing
  • No other major US service offers this for mothers

Roadmap

2026 Fractionated capsule service. Revenue from day one. Prove the core scientific insight.
2027 Add maternal stem cell banking. Cryopreservation of the cellular fraction. Recurring storage revenue.
2028+ Full perinatal tissue platform. Multi-fraction processing, cord tissue, and research partnerships.
Pricing in development. Waitlist members will receive first access and founding member pricing.

Why Now

The window is opening.

The first menstrual-blood stem cell startup just raised in San Francisco. Investors are paying attention to this category for the first time since 2007.
Research on mesenchymal stem cells from birth tissue has accelerated dramatically since 2020, with the first Phase 3 clinical trial completing in 2025.
Postpartum maternal health is finally receiving institutional attention—from employers, insurers, and investors. The care gap is recognized, not just felt.
Lyophilization and exosome science have matured enough to make fractional processing commercially viable—not just scientifically interesting.

Waitlist

Reserve your spot.

We're reserving processing slots for 2026 and 2027 births. We're also building a network of doulas, midwives, and birth workers who believe their clients deserve better than what's currently available. If that's you — in either role — we'd love to hear from you.

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About

Built from 18 years of asking how the body actually works.

Nathalie Babazadeh

Founder

I've spent 18 years in clinical practice as a Licensed Acupuncturist in the Bay Area, studying how the body processes and absorbs what we give it. I studied Medical Anthropology at UC Berkeley and earned my MS in Chinese Medicine. In 2009 I co-founded Artemis Therapeutics, where I've been formulating health products from biological source materials ever since. When I looked at how placenta was being processed, I saw seven distinct fractions being treated as one. The body doesn't work that way. That's where Moonbox started.

  • MS, Chinese Medicine — Meiji College
  • Medical Anthropology — UC Berkeley
  • Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac.) — 18 years clinical practice
  • Master Herbalist & product formulator
  • Co-founder, Artemis Therapeutics (est. 2009)
Moonbox is pre-launch. We are completing regulatory review with specialized life-sciences counsel, recruiting tissue processing expertise to complement Nathalie's formulation and clinical background, and building this waitlist before investor conversations. We've studied the landscape — cord blood banking, the recent wave of stem cell startups in San Francisco, the regulatory environment. We know what's been tried and where the gaps are.