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| Jan 12, 2021 | A blood-pressure sensor is the holy grail for wearables. Valencell has one | A photoplethysmogram from Valencell is far smaller than a quarter and can do biometric magic.
COVID-19 gets more headlines these days, but high-blood pressure or hypertension is an epidemic all to itself: Over half of Americans have it, and... |
| Jan 11, 2021 | Tech for Change: CES 2021 reveals new ways to stay healthier than ever before | Technological doodads that help us monitor our health have exploded in recent years, starting with our steps (thank you, Fitbit!) and heartbeat and moving into all sorts of innovative spaces. The market for “connected health monitoring devi... |
| Jul 24, 2019 | Fitbits and other wearables may not accurately track heart rates in people of color | An estimated 40 million people in the United States have smartwatches or fitness trackers that can monitor their heartbeats. But some people of color may be at risk of getting inaccurate readings.
Nearly all of the largest manufacturers of ... |
| May 16, 2019 | Watch out Watches – Smart Hearables Are Coming | Watch out Watches – Smart Hearables Are Coming
Youval Nachum on May 16, 2019 at 11:35 am
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In the race to smart wearables smart watches and fitness bands have taken the lead, the latter for fitness junkies (or would-be ... |
| Jan 11, 2019 | The 5 Most Interesting Hearables Developments from CES 2019 | The 5 Most Interesting Hearables Developments from CES 2019
David Kemp on January 11, 2019 at 12:50 pm
At this year’s annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), a number of interesting hearables-related developments were announced that continu... |
| Jun 15, 2018 | Valencell Nabs $10.5M to Expand Wearable Biometric Sensor Technology | Valencell, a Raleigh, NC-based developer of wearable biometric sensor technology, has raised $10.5M in Series E financing led by Sonion with participation from existing investors TDF Ventures, GII LLC, and WSJ Joshua Fund. The startup plans... |
| Jun 14, 2018 | Valencell's partnership with earphone manufacturer leads to $10.5M raise | |
| Jun 13, 2018 | Valencell Secures $10.5M in Series E Funding | Valencell, a Raleigh, NC-based developer of wearable biometric sensor technology, secured $10.5M in Series E financing.
The round, which brings the total amount of funding raised to date to $35m, was led by Sonion a/s, with participation fr... |
| Dec 13, 2016 | Is hearable tech really the latest thing in wearables? | While wearable tech has been thrown a few curve balls over the last 12 months, leading to ultimately a consolidation in wearables (think Fitbit’s purchase of Pebble Watch) and a decline in the sale of wearable devices, one subset that conti... |
| Nov 4, 2016 | The top deals in the healthcare wearables space in 2016 | So far this year, there have been 82 deals in the space, raising $557.96M
Healthcare is a really, really big space, one that sees a lot of funding and deals. So far this year, the healthcare space has now raised $13.1 billion, according to ... |
| Mar 9, 2016 | Valencell Secures $11M in Series D |
RALEIGH, NC, Leading innovator in performance biometric sensor technology, today announced it has secured $11M in Series D financing.
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| Mar 9, 2016 | Valencell Secures $11M in Series D Financing | Valencell, a Raleigh, N.C.-based developer of performance biometric sensor technology, secured $11m in Series D financing.
The round was led by GII Tech, a new venture fund being launched by UAE-based financial services company GII LLC, wit... |
| Mar 8, 2016 | Valencell Raises $11M to Support Wearable Tech R&D | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Biometric sensor company Valencell has closed on $11 million in new funding to support the company’s global expansion into more wearable technology products.
The Raleigh, NC-b... |
| Mar 8, 2016 | Valencell raises $8.4M more to expand beyond fitness into first responders, military | Raleigh, North Carolina-based heart rate sensor company Valencell has raised $8.4 million more in a round that totaled $11 million. The round was led by GII Tech with participation from existing investors TDF Ventures and WSJ Joshua Fund. T... |
| Mar 8, 2016 | Valencell closes $11M Series D round to support research and development for wearable sensor tech | Last year, Gulf Islamic Investments raised a $200 million fund to invest in Silicon Valley technology companies.
Valencell currently has 25 licensees for its PerformTek biosensor tech. But at the end of last year it also launched BioPack, a... |
| Jan 6, 2016 | (Update) Misfit launches earphones that support sleep tracking | Jaybird launched a set of sweatproof ear buds —a variation of the Jaybird Freedom earphones launched last year.
Avvy claims to have launched the first wireless headphones connected to the Internet of Things., although they don’t use Bluetoo... |
| Jan 5, 2016 | Valencell Sues Apple, Fitbit, Claims Wearable Sensor Tech Infringed | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As Steven LeBoeuf, president and co-founder of Valencell, wrapped up a 2014 tech conference pitch describing how his startup’s biometric sensor technology works in wearable de... |
| Jan 5, 2016 | Valencell, a Biometrics Company, Sues Apple by Claiming the Apple Watch Infringes their Technology
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| Jan 5, 2016 | Patent lawsuit says Apple Watch designers illegally downloaded white papers | Megan Geuss reader comments 99 with 53 posters participating
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| Dec 22, 2015 | CB Insights identifies 5 applications for Internet of Things in healthcare from the sublime to OTT | Computer Vision is a pretty broad area but basically it is nursing technology such as artificial intelligence to amplify vision. Although CB Insights uses drones as an example, there are some applications I and some of my colleagues have co... |
| Dec 8, 2015 | Three Challenges For The Hearables Future | Ruochen Huang Contributor
Ruochen Huang is an intern at CrunchBase and an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley.
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| Sep 15, 2015 | Valencell gets another $2.6M for its health-sensing earbud technology | Raleigh, North Carolina-based Valencell, which embeds its health and medical sensors in some wearable devices, most notably in sensor-equipped headphones, raised $2.6 million in a combination of debt and equity, according to an SEC filing.
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| Sep 14, 2015 | Biosensor developer Valencell raises $2.64M following patent approvals | The company collaborates with license partners to measure the
reliability, performance and accuracy of wearable products powered by its technology, according to a company statement.
Valencell got a greenlight on eight patent applications in... |
| Jun 7, 2015 | Hot Spots For Health Tech Startups | Kaveh Safavi Contributor
Kaveh Safavi is the managing director of Accenture’s health business.
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The future of healthcare is not people versus machines
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| Apr 28, 2015 | Internet of Things enabler Validic raises $12.5M to add staff, support product development | To date Validic’s technology is used with more than 175 devices to help users share data from their glucometers and wearable devices with providers to advance interoperability.
Beckland said that its technology supports the Internet of Thin... |
| Jan 16, 2015 | In 2015, ecosystems will transform fragmented wearables market | Valencell represents an ecosystem of a different kind. Its sensor technology PerformTek has been used to create more accurate measures of heart rate, respiration rate, and other blood flow measures and integrated into licensing partnerships... |
| Oct 21, 2014 | Why 'hearables' will trump wearables — and make you healthier, too | The wearables fitness market is primed to explode – with CES predicting the market will eclipse $1 billion this year, and independent research suggesting 55 percent of Americans plan to use a wearable device in the coming year. However, mos... |
| Sep 22, 2014 | Hearables: Why the ear will make wearables 'stick' | Dr. Steven LeBoeuf is the President and co-founder of Valencell and an expert and pioneer in precision biometric data sensor technology,
The market for fitness wearables is strong, but remains niche.
According to a Gallup Healthways Well-Be... |
| Sep 22, 2014 | Hearables: Why the ear will make wearables 'stick' | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Dr. Steven LeBoeuf is the President and co-founder of Valencell and an expert and pioneer in precision biometric data sensor technology... |
| Jun 18, 2014 | Valencell gets $7M to scale, market health-sensing headphone technology | LG's heart rate sensing earphones use technology licensed from Valencell.
Valencell, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based company that powers health and medical sensors in some wearable devices, most notably in sensor-equipped headphones, has ra... |
| Jun 16, 2014 | Valencell Secures more than $7M in Series C Financing | Valencell, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based developer of performance biometric data sensor technology, secured more than $7m in Series C financing.
Backers included WSJ Joshua Fund, TDF Ventures, True Ventures and Best Buy Capital.
The compa... |
| Jun 16, 2014 | Valencell Secures $7M Series C |
RALEIGH, NC, Leader in performance biometric data sensor technology, today announced it has secured more than $7 million in Series C financing.
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| Jan 11, 2014 | I’ve Seen The Future Of Health Tech And It’s Going To Improve Your Life In 2014 | I just returned from the most exciting Consumer Electronics Show I’ve ever covered. Thanks to extraordinary demand for gadgets that make us healthier, stronger, and smarter, the technology industry is putting some serious brain power behind... |
| Jan 16, 2012 | 3 cool health products you may have missed at CES 2012 | Valencell’s V-LINC technology measures physiological data including heart rate, calories burned, metabolic rate and cardiovascular fitness through the devices placed in audio headsets and earbuds used to listen to music or talk on the phone... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | Best Buy invests in N.C. mobile fitness earbud technology; leads $5.5M round | Valencell has developed earbuds that have the technology to track physiological metrics such as heart rate, calories burned, steps taken, distance traveled and speed. The data can be tracked in real time while the user listens to music or t... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | Valencell Raises $5.5M in Series B Funding | Valencell, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based developer of mobile health and fitness technology, has raised $5.5m in Series B venture funding.
The round was led by Best Buy Capital, the investment group of Best Buy Co., Inc., with participatio... |
| Valencell closes $11M Series D round to support research and development for wearable sensor tech | This post has been updated from an earlier version.
Valencell, a health tech company that licenses its biometric sensor technology, has closed an $11 million Series D round to support research and development, according to a company stateme... |
| (Update) Misfit launches earphones that support sleep tracking | This post has been updated from an earlier version with comments from a Fitbit spokesman.
Launching a set of connected earphones at CES? Get in line. Interest in earphone tech has been building and they’ve continued to be a hot item at this... |
| 3 cool health products you may have missed at CES 2012 | Behind the highly visible displays of success and influence in the healthcare space at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show — like UnitedHealth Group‘s two-part, walk-through exhibit space and Qualcomm’s ever-present sponsor signage — there w... |
| Biosensor developer Valencell raises $2.64M following patent approvals | Valencell, a biometric sensor developer seeking to improve the accuracy of fitness tracking and other wearables, has raised a fresh round of capital, according to a Form D filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The financi... |
| The Hardware Revolution is Upon Us and Why it Matters | Almost exactly six years ago, Apple launched the first iPhone. It was a small device that many dismissed as a toy. In reality Steve put a supercomputer in our pocket — we just didn’t know it. And like super computers before, it came with im... |
| Internet of Things enabler Validic raises $12.5M to add staff, support product development | Validic, a software developer with technology that suppoorts the growth of the Internet of Things in healthcare, has raised $12.5 million to expand its staff to support more products and to expand its customer base. Kaiser Permanente’s vent... |
| Welcoming Streetline | At True, we are big believers in the “connected web” and the “Internet of Things” (IoT). We love how this powerful movement takes cutting-edge software and wraps it in beautiful hardware packages, and connects the digital and physical world... |
| Steve Blank is Right About the Need for Lean VCs | I met Steve Blank for the first time a few weeks ago when he came to visit the Women 2.0 group at Pier 38. As someone who has long believed in the value of engaging one on one with customers, I have long respected and admired his work in cu... |
| CB Insights identifies 5 applications for Internet of Things in healthcare from the sublime to OTT | The number of connected devices is truly startling. Gartner estimates that there are currently about 4.9 billion connected devices and expects that to grow 30 percent to 6.39 billion next year. A CB Insights article goes beyond the garden v... |
| True Ventures 2nd Annual TEC Summer Program for College Student Internships with Startups Launches | True Ventures’ TEC Program for aspiring entrepreneurs is back for a second summer with 15 of the top college students from across the United States.
As a member of TEC, these students will be paired with one of our portfolio companies and ... |
| Best Buy invests in N.C. mobile fitness earbud technology; leads $5.5M round | Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) is making a bet on the prospects of a mobile health and fitness technology offering developed by North Carolina startup Valencell.
Best Buy Capital, the venture capital arm of the consumer electronics retail giant, led a... |
| In 2015, ecosystems will transform fragmented wearables market | The widespread availability of fitness wearables coupled with marginal use has created a relatively new trend in the market — ecosystems. After all, no one can afford to depend on the business of just a few devices and it opens up access to... |
