Each day, hundreds of women worldwide die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, according to the WHO. A simple ultrasound can be life-saving, by catching complications early, but many women globally don’t have access to that care. Since 2012, Dutch medical technology company Delft Imaging has been developing BabyChecker AI, a smartphone-connected probe designed for health workers in rural areas with limited access to infrastructure, which can detect gestational age, fetal presentation, and placenta localization in just two minutes. In 2025, Delft added a feature to share 2D images with patients, expanded its language options, and made more features available offline. The company operates in more than a dozen largely low- and middle-income countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, and Central America. Florent Geerts, managing director at Delft, says the company is starting to see women coming in earlier and getting more frequent scans because they’d heard about BabyChecker AI. “We believe our tech can make a very real difference,” he says.
