Eight Sleep

The venture world is — quite literally — waking up to the potential of applying artificial intelligence to a wider variety of real-world, consumer-driven problems, and today comes the latest…

Eight Sleep raises $86M as its smart mattress and ‘sleep fitness’ technology approaches $500M valuation

Matteo Franceschetti, CEO of Eight Sleep, would prefer that you don’t call his startup a mattress company. Eight Sleep does sell mattresses, albeit smart ones packed with sensors and temperature…

Eight Sleep CEO says his startup is more than a mattress company

Smart mattress company Eight Sleep is announcing its newest product today, The Pod. Co-founder and CEO Matteo Franceschetti described it, succinctly, as “Nest for your bed.” Eight has been focused…

Eight Sleep unveils The Pod, a bed that’s smarter about temperature

A Finnish startup called Ōura Ring has closed a series A round of €5 million to ramp up production of its smart, health-monitoring jewelry. Oura Ring’s Series A backers included…

Oura Ring raises €5 million to take its smart jewelry mainstream