LifeBeam, a wearable health sensor and fitness device maker, has raised $20 million from Joy Ventures, Square Peg Capital, New Era Ventures, Cerca Partners, Triventures, Wellborn Ventures, and FGI Capital Partners to expand its business, VentureBeat reports.
The company is best known for Vi, a set of connected headphones that include an AI fitness coach. Along with acting as a fitness tracker via...
New York City-based health sensor company LifeBeam has raised $16 million in a round led by Squarepeg Capital with participation from Wellborn VC, Cerca Partners, Atomic14 VC, and Triventures VC. This brings the company’s total funding to date to $19 million.
LifeBeam, which was founded four years ago, initially developed wearable biosensing technologies for the aerospace domain, including NASA...
Google Glass may or may not be on its way to catching on with the consumer crowd, but, if nothing else, it shows that Google doesn't think consumers will have a problem wearing a computer on their head. As wearable health real estate goes, the head is a contentious spot for a sensor, but a number of companies are making a go for it. Brainwave sensors, like Emotiv, which has already raised $400,...
Crowdfunding platforms can be the last refuge of a desperate entrepreneur or the go-to market strategy for an appealing consumer product. When a product does well, it does really well, smashing records and even outstripping its own ability to deliver on the goods. When it does badly, well, it often fades away, or at least the company realizes that D2C might not be their best channel.
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