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Breathometer

http://www.breathometer.com/

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Breathometer is focused on building devices to track and monitor your health, digitally, through ground breaking advancements in breath analysis. The first device on this new platform will be Mint, a device that allows you to track your oral health and improve your oral cleaning effectiveness. When used properly, the Mint device measures VSC’s, which are correlated to gum disease, bad breath, and the concentration of anaerobic bacteria in the mouth; three symptoms of poor oral health

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Location: United States, California, Burlingame

Employees: 11-50

Phone: +1 800-868-0496

Total raised: $2M

Founded date: 2012

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Date	Series	Amount	Investors
17.10.2013	Seed	$2M	-

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25.01.2017	Breathometer Raised Money on Indiegogo & Shark Tank but it Doesn’t Work & Now the FTC is Forcing Refunds	Breathometer, the “world’s first smartphone breathalyzer”, raised $138,437 on Indiegogo back in 2013. The following year, Breathometer visited the studios of Shark Tank where founder Charles Michael Yim “blew the sharks out of the water.” H...
23.01.2017	Breathometer ordered to refund purchases of its breathalyzers as part of FTC settlement	Breathometer, a startup that quickly rose to prominence due to an appearance on Shark Tank, has agreed to a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission in which it will offer refunds for mobile-connected breathalyzer devices the company so...
27.09.2016	Breathometer’s Mint works with a smartphone to analyze your oral health	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. If you’re worried about oral health problems, you may need a Mint. Not the chewable kind, but a new gadget from Breathometer that sense...
27.09.2016	Breathometer’s Mint works with a smartphone to analyze your oral health	If you’re worried about oral health problems, you may need a Mint. Not the chewable kind, but a new gadget from Breathometer that senses your breath and tells you if you are at risk for any oral diseases. Breathometer’s Mint is a small plas...
08.09.2016	Breathometer teams up with Philips to take on bad breath	Eighty million people in the U.S. struggle with bad breath — many of them don’t even know that they do, but the people around them are likely all too aware. Last year at CES, Breathometer teased a connected device called Mint that measures ...
13.04.2016	«Дом-2» для стартаперов Статьи редакции	Самые громкие истории успеха американского шоу для предпринимателей Shark Tank Shark Tank — это американское ТB-шоу, на котором начинающие предприниматели питчат свои идеи инвесторам. Если инвестору нравится идея — такое бывает редко — учас...
19.01.2016	Is 2016 The Year IoT / Connected Devices Reach Maturity?	At Startupbootcamp, we like having plenty of boots on the ground. From holding FastTrack events in every major startup hub and upcoming cities to attending the world’s best tech conferences – we like having our ears and eyes on the ground. ...
18.02.2015	Breathometer Now Calls Ubers To Drive The Drunks Home	Breathometer and Uber are teaming up to get the drunks home safely. We wrote before that Breathometer would be coming up with some interesting applications over the next few months and today the blood alcohol level breath analysis startup h...
12.01.2015	10 Of The Year’s Newest And Hottest Fitness Gadgets	Editor’s Note: This was originally published by our partners at PopSugar Tech. Every January, companies gather at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to reveal the best gadgets of the year. And every year in recent memory, fitness ga...
08.01.2015	Breathometer’s Mint Can Tell You When Your Breath Stinks… And When You’re Dehydrated, Too	A couple of years ago, a company called Breathometer came up with a portable breathalyzer you could plug into your phone and quickly get your blood alcohol level. At the time it seemed like a bit of a novelty device, but the company has con...
31.12.2014	Tech To Save You From Your Drunk Self On New Year’s Eve	The safest thing you could possibly do on New Year’s Eve is not drink, not go out, not do anything. You’re probably going to go out, anyway. You’re probably going to go to some party and you’re probably going to drink. A lot. You’ll dance t...
26.11.2014	Top 11 Thanksgiving Food Services and Apps	Brace yourself: The Thanksgiving dinner is a center point of the holiday for a lot of people, and this year I want to help you and yours find a happy balance at the intersection of food and technology. There are countless apps and services ...
14.10.2014	Breathometer launches a HealthKit-ready wearable breathalyzer	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Measuring blood alcohol level might be just as important to some people as measuring steps or heart rate. It’s a relatively new metric ...
14.10.2014	Breathometer launches a HealthKit-ready wearable breathalyzer	Measuring blood alcohol level might be just as important to some people as measuring steps or heart rate. It’s a relatively new metric in the “quantified self” movement, but it makes sense. Breathometer today unveiled a new device in its li...
17.10.2013	Breathometer Closes nearly $2M in Seed Funding	Breathometer, a Burlingame, CA-based developer of a device that measures the user’s blood alcohol level, closed nearly $2m in seed funding. Investors included Structure Capital VC and Dillon Hill Capital and all five investors on the TV sho...
17.10.2013	Breathometer gets $2M to tell you that you’re drunk	Go home, you’re drunk. All the clues that you’re wasted might be there — slurred words, weaved walking, making out with the cat — but now she can prove it with a tiny smartphone-based breathalyzer called Breathometer, which received $2 mill...
17.10.2013	Breathometer gets $2M to tell you that you’re drunk	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Go home, you’re drunk. All the clues that you’re wasted might be there — slurred words, weaved walking, making out with the cat — but n...
21.05.2013	Hoping To Ride The Crowdfunding Wave, Celery Lets Sellers Accept Pre-Orders, Charge When Products Ready To Ship	Airbrite, a Y Combinator-backed e-commerce startup, is debuting its first product today called Celery (its name a play on the world “sell”). Celery is designed to be a “pre-commerce” store builder – or, in other words, it allows anyone to s...
05.04.2013	The Breathometer Will Ensure You Don’t Drive (Or Do Video Interviews) While Drunk	There’s a new handy little device for people who like to drink but want to be safe about it. The Breathometer, which is currently for sale through a campaign on Indiegogo, was built to use the processing power of your mobile phone to provid...
29.03.2013	Mobile health tourney: Medical app to share cardiology, radiology scans faces off against personal breathalyzer	Crowdfunded by Indigogo, the Breathometer’s smartphone breathalyzer is designed for users to make more informed safer decisions by being able to quantify their blood alcohol level themselves. Although still in Beta testing, it’s expected to...
13.03.2013	Breathometer unveils the first smartphone breathalyzer	Before you get into a car to drive, it’s probably a good idea to know whether you’re drunk. Breathometer makes that possible with what it calls the world’s first smartphone breathalyzer. The device plugs into your smartphone and measures yo...
13.03.2013	Breathometer unveils the first smartphone breathalyzer	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Before you get into a car to drive, it’s probably a good idea to know whether you’re drunk. Breathometer makes that possible with what ...
-	Mobile health tourney: Medical app to share cardiology, radiology scans faces off against personal breathalyzer	The NCAA College Basketball tournament may be must-see TV but here mobile health apps and devices are in the throes of competition and the stakes are high. Adherence, remote monitoring, engagement, improved outcomes, reduced healthcare cost...

Breathometer

Investors 5

Funding Rounds 1

Mentions in press and media 23

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