Finland-based health-tracking ring maker Oura announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire fellow Finnish company Veri, which offers personalized metabolic health programs.
Veri uses the FDA-cleared Abbott FreeStyle Libre 1, 2, and 3 sensors to monitor a user's metabolic health by collecting data from their body. An app enabled by continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) then guides the user...
Editor's note: This article has been updated with a statement from Google.
Behemoth lab test company Quest Diagnostics is partnering with Google's Fitbit to study how wearable technologies can improve metabolic health.
The pilot study, dubbed Wearables for Metabolic Health (WEAR-ME), will combine Fitbit's behavioral and biometric data with health information from Quest Diagnostics' lab tests to...
Lumen, maker of a handheld metabolism measurement device, announced on Thursday that it had scooped up $62 million in Series B funding.
The round was led by Pitango Venture Capital, with participation from Hanwha Group, Resolute Ventures, RiverPark Ventures, Unorthodox Ventures, Almeda Capital and Disruptive VC.
The company previously raised $8.5 million in 2019, and had a crowdfunding raise in...
Singaporean health tech startup Mesh Bio and UK-based drug discovery firm MultiOmic Health have started collaborating to build a huge multi-omics dataset that will provide insights into metabolic syndrome-related conditions among Asians.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
According to a press statement, Mesh Bio will tap on its network of healthcare providers to recruit participants for their study, specifically...
Hybrid virtual care provider Carbon Health is rolling out a new metabolic health assessment program aimed at finding patients that are at high risk for diabetes.
The program will use continuous glucose monitoring technology, as well as virtual and in-person care visits in order to assess a patient's risk. If a patient is deemed clinically eligible for the program based on a risk assessment...
This morning a new digital-weight-management startup out of New York City called Calibrate launched with a $5.1 million boost in seed funding led by Forerunner Ventures.
Calibrate is a one-year telemedicine program focused on weight loss that combines both prescription medications and health coaching. The end goal of the program is to help customers “reset their metabolic health.”
Users are...
