Consumer
By The MobiHealthNews Team
Digital health and fitness devices were, yet again, a dominant topic at CES 2015.
Cambridge, Massachusetts and Milan, Italy-based Empatica is crowdfunding a new wristworn tracker device, Embrace, which brings clinically validated tracking methods to the consumer market.
This year, at CES15, Intel unveiled Curie, a low-power module the size of a button that developers can use to build wearable devices.
San Francisco-based fitness app company fitmob raised $5 million from 112 investors -- $1 million of the funding came from Recruit Strategic Partners and was previously disclosed.
Caremerge, makers of a care coordination software for seniors in assisted living facilities, raised $4 million in its first institutional round of funding.
According to a recent survey of 24,000 consumers in 24 countries, about 8 percent now own wearable fitness monitors and 6 percent own a wearable health monitor.
The new heart rate-enabled devices Fitbit announced in October have begun shipping and are now available for purchase online, the company announced.
San Francisco-based health behavior monitoring and analytics startup Ginger.
Shelton, Connecticut-based Fitlinxx, maker of the BtoB activity tracker Pebble, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for its newest device, a bandaid-like heart rate tracker, called AmpStrip.
Wellness app maker Noom has raised $15 million, according to an SEC filing.