Oura Health Oy[1] is a Finnish health technology company, known for the Oura Ring (stylized Ōura), a smart ring used to track sleep and physical activity. The company was founded in 2013 by Petteri Lahtela, Kari Kivelä, and Markku Koskela. Harpreet Singh Rai was the CEO from 2018 until 2021, when he was replaced on an interim basis by Michael Chapp.[2] In 2022, Tom Hale was appointed CEO.[3] The company is headquartered in Oulu, Finland, with other locations in Helsinki, Finland, and San Francisco, United States.[4] The company raised its initial US$2.3 million seed funding in 2015 led by Lifeline Ventures,[5] introduced the first-generation ring via Kickstarter in 2016[6] and launched the ring at the Slush tech conference in 2017.[7]
In 2020, Oura Health received the 'Best Consumer Wellness Company' award from the UCSF Digital Health Awards and Time magazine's "100 Best Inventions of 2020" mentioning especially its COVID-19-related partnership with NBA.[8] Oura announced Series C funding of US$100 million from The Chernin Group, Elysian Park, Temasek, JAZZ Venture Partners and Eisai in May 2021; funding in earlier rounds came from Forerunner Ventures, Square Ventures, MSD Capital (Michael Dell), Marc Benioff, Lifeline Ventures, Metaplanet Holdings, Next Ventures, and private investors.[9][10] In May 2023, Oura Health Oy acquired tech startup, Proxy Inc., which makes digital identification tools.[11]
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OuraHealth Oy is a Finnish health technology company, known for the Oura Ring (stylized Ōura), a smart ring used to track sleep and physical activity...
Oura or Ōura may refer to: Olba (ancient city) in present Anatolia (Asian Turkey) Ōra, Gunma in Japan Ōra District, Gunma in Japan Ōura, Kagoshima also...
1968) is an American technology executive. He is the CEO of OuraHealth Oy, maker of the Oura smart ring. He is the former president of Momentive (NASDAQ:MNTV)...
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and health and wellness supplements. He invested in a Finnish company called OuraHealth and is also the cofounder of Allysian Sciences, a health and...
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The oft-quoted meaning "sharp-tailed" (based on a confusion with οὐρά, oura, "tail", and Latin anus) is both etymologically and morphologically incorrect...
circuits." Smart rings have been developed to monitor blood pressure. The Oura Smart Ring is able to predict coronavirus symptoms within 24-hours. Data...
Southeast Asian J. Trop. Med. Public Health. 30 (Suppl 2): 69. PMID 11400789. Fujimoto A, Okano Y, Miyagi T, Isshiki G, Oura T (June 2000). "Quantitative Beutler...
original on 23 August 2007. Retrieved 15 December 2011. "Smallpox dance in Oura-Cho, Kagoshima Prefecture". Kagoshima Prefecture. Archived from the original...
ISBN 978-981-02-3500-0. Archived from the original on 2022-02-04. Retrieved 2020-08-25. Oura, K.; et al. (2003). Surface Science: An Introduction. Springer Science+Business...
Prefecture and Kumamoto Prefecture 1495 (2018) iii 5,566.55 ha (12,252.52 ha) Ōura Cathedral, Hara Castle, Hirado Island Mozu-Furuichi Kofungun, Ancient Tumulus...
as their prevalent fox. The genus Urocyon comes from Ancient Greek οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + κύων (kúōn, “dog”). The species epithet cinereoargenteus is a...
consume themselves. The term derives from Ancient Greek οὐροβόρος, from οὐρά oura 'tail' plus -βορός -boros '-eating'. The ouroboros is often interpreted as...
factions. One faction under Ōura Tamenobu asserted their control over the Hirosaki Domain. His clan, originally the Ōura clan (大浦氏, Ōura-shi), was of uncertain...
Fujiwara (1189). During the Sengoku period a local retainer of the Nambu, Ōura Tamenobu, declared his independence (1571) and seized local castles. He pledged...
unknown how much salinity seagrass can withstand. Dugong habitat in the Oura Bay area of Henoko, Okinawa, Japan, is currently under threat from land reclamation...
actigraphic measurement. Some consumer electronics devices, such as the Oura Ring and the Huawei Honor Band, employ actigraphy to estimate sleep patterns...
description and the name Trichuris (Greek θρίξ/thríx, for hair, and οὐρά/ourá, tail). However, Roederer mistook the thread-like head for the tail. Swedish...
Marie Constant Duméril in 1805, it is derived from the Greek words οὐρά ourā́ "tail" and δῆλος dēlos "visible, conspicuous" because of their "persistent"...
a large, bulbous nose. Kaya Irimi (入見 カヤ, Irimi Kaya) Voiced by: Fuyuka Oura (Japanese); Morgan Mabry (English) Played by: Nozomi Sasaki One of the waitresses...
the HM's social policy was detached from itself, then the Ministry of Health and Welfare was established. In 1947, the HM was abolished under the Supreme...
skin. The order Anura (from the Ancient Greek a(n)- meaning "without" and oura meaning "tail") comprises the frogs and toads. They usually have long hind...
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