Ultrahuman raises $17.5 M, touting a wearable blood glucose tracker

by RJ Shara | Aug 17, 2021 | Fundings and Exit

Fitness platform Ultrahuman has formally revealed a $ 17.5 million Series B fund raise, with financial investment originating from early stage fund Alpha Wave Incubation, Steadview Capital, Nexus Endeavor Partners, Blume Ventures and Utsav Somani’s iSeed fund. A variety of founders and angel investors also participated in the Bangalore-headquartered startup’s Series B, consisting of Tiger Global’s Scott Schleifer, […] Keeping tabs on blood sugar is vital for people living with diabetes. On the enhancements side, Kumar informs TechCrunch the group is checking out “other kind aspects and other types of sensors that could help us capture glucose in a more accurate way and for a longer duration than 14 days”, as they work to hone the wearable.”Glucose is interesting due to the fact that it is a real-time biomarker that’s affected by workout, sleep, food and stress,” states Kumar, including: “We are able to help people make way of life changes throughout lots of vectors like nutrition, sleep, stress and exercise vs being unidimensional. He gives some examples of how the product might help users by identifying beneficial tweaks they might make to their diet and workout regimes — — such as figuring out which foods in their present diet plan yield “a healthy metabolic response” vs those that “require more optimization” (aka, preventing the feared sugar crash). …