Cloud9 Conception

Cloud9 Conception, LLC is an egg donor agency based in Oakwood, Ohio. Rather than managing full gestational surrogacy journeys, it recruits egg donors and matches them with intended parents, and also offers agency consulting. For families building through surrogacy, an egg donor agency handles one piece of the process — finding and coordinating a donor — alongside whatever surrogacy program, clinic and attorneys a family works with separately.

The agency describes itself as "built for women, by women." According to its materials, it was founded by Shelby Ray, a two-time former egg donor who previously ran a fertility clinic's third-party reproduction program. It operates as a for-profit company.

Its donor pool is advertised as Midwest-focused, with donors drawn from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia, and, the agency says, beyond. Matching is for fresh egg donor cycles. The agency uses SeedTrust Escrow for holding and disbursing funds, and it maintains a no-smoking policy for donors.

Cloud9 Conception publishes its agency fee, which appears with other program details below. It is listed as a participating provider in the Men Having Babies Surrogacy Advisor directory, including that organization's gay parenting assistance programs — a network oriented toward gay intended fathers. The agency's listed hours are Monday through Friday, 10am to 5pm Eastern.

The operation appears to be a small one, with its public presence and directory listings dating from roughly 2023 onward.