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10 Wearables Investors for Health Startups

Early-stage investors with demonstrated activity across health sensing, sleep, performance, wellbeing and emerging AI-native wearable interfaces.

Published
  • Wearables
  • Consumer Health
  • Healthcare AI
  • Neurotechnology
  • Seed
  • Series A

Wearables are expanding beyond step counts and single-purpose trackers. New products are combining continuous , neurotechnology, personalized software and conversational AI, while recurring subscriptions increasingly sit alongside the hardware itself. For investors, that makes the category a blend of consumer adoption, technical differentiation, data quality and durable software economics.

DealBio selected 10 investors with evidenced relevance to consumer health and AI wearables, using current investor research, financing precedents and public verification where needed.

True Ventures

Early-stage venture firm known for backing founder-led technology companies from first institutional financing onward.

Stage
Seed · Series A
Sector / Focus
Wearables · Consumer health · AI hardware
Investment markets
United States
Investor type
VC

Relevant investment

True Ventures led Sandbar’s $10 million seed round before the company raised a $23 million Series A in 2026. Sandbar is building a wearable conversational interface for , giving True direct exposure to a new class of always-available consumer hardware and voice interaction.

Khosla Ventures

Venture firm backing technically ambitious companies across healthcare, AI, climate and frontier technology.

Stage
Seed · Series A · Growth
Sector / Focus
Consumer health · Wearables · Healthcare technology
Investment markets
United States
Investor type
VC

Relevant investment

Khosla Ventures led Clair Health’s $11.6 million seed round in 2026. Clair is developing a wearable intended to track hormone patterns continuously, bringing Khosla into a consumer-health category that combines biosensing hardware with personal data.

NIREMIA Collective

Early-stage investor focused on mental, emotional and social wellbeing technologies.

Stage
Pre-seed · Seed
Sector / Focus
Wellbeing · Neurotechnology · Wearables
Investment markets
United States · Global
Investor type
VC

Relevant investment

NIREMIA Collective backed AWEAR, a wearable designed to detect stress-related physiological signals and support real-time emotional regulation. AWEAR raised a $750,000 pre-seed round in 2025, providing NIREMIA with a direct precedent at the intersection of wellbeing, sensing and consumer hardware.

NextView Ventures

Seed-stage venture firm investing in technology companies at their earliest institutional rounds.

Stage
Seed · Series A
Sector / Focus
Consumer technology · Wearables · Health
Investment markets
United States
Investor type
VC

Relevant investment

NextView Ventures was an early investor in WHOOP, the wearable platform that tracks strain, recovery and sleep for athletes and consumers. WHOOP’s later growth into a subscription-based health and performance platform gives NextView a long-running precedent in wearable hardware paired with recurring software revenue.

JAZZ Venture Partners

Venture firm focused on technologies that improve human performance, health and wellbeing.

Stage
Seed · Growth
Sector / Focus
Human performance · Digital health · Wearables
Investment markets
United States
Investor type
VC

Relevant investment

JAZZ Venture Partners invested in Oura, which raised a $100 million Series C in 2021. Oura’s smart ring combines continuous physiological sensing with software for sleep, readiness and activity, giving JAZZ direct exposure to a scaled consumer-health wearable platform.

Elysian Park Ventures

Investment firm backed by the Los Angeles Dodgers ownership group, with activity across sports, health, consumer and technology.

Stage
Seed · Growth
Sector / Focus
Sports technology · Consumer health · Wearables
Investment markets
United States · Europe
Investor type
VC

Relevant investment

Elysian Park Ventures participated in Oura’s $100 million Series C. Oura’s ring-based health platform measures sleep, cardiovascular and activity signals, making the investment relevant to consumer devices where hardware, longitudinal health data and subscription software reinforce one another.

Seaside Ventures

Early-stage investor focused on consumer health, wellness and technology businesses.

Stage
Pre-seed · Seed · Series A
Sector / Focus
Consumer health · Sleep · Wearables
Investment markets
United States
Investor type
VC

Relevant investment

Seaside Ventures backed Somnee, which raised a $10 million seed round in 2025. Somnee develops a headband that uses personalized and sleep data to support sleep quality, creating a direct precedent in science-led consumer wearables.

Kindred Ventures

San Francisco venture firm investing early in technology companies across consumer, enterprise and frontier markets.

Stage
Pre-seed · Seed · Series A
Sector / Focus
AI interfaces · Wearables · Consumer technology
Investment markets
United States
Investor type
VC

Relevant investment

Kindred Ventures co-led Sandbar’s $23 million Series A in 2026 after the company’s earlier seed financing. Sandbar is developing a wearable conversational interface for AI agents, making Kindred relevant to hardware that turns and AI interaction into a persistent consumer product.

Adjacent

Venture firm investing across consumer, software and technology companies from early stages onward.

Stage
Seed · Series A
Sector / Focus
Consumer technology · AI hardware · Subscription products
Investment markets
United States · Europe
Investor type
VC

Relevant investment

Adjacent co-led Sandbar’s $23 million Series A in 2026. Sandbar’s wearable AI interface combines dedicated hardware with conversational software, giving Adjacent a financing precedent in emerging consumer-device categories built around continuous AI access.

Ubiquity Ventures

Early-stage deep-tech investor focused on software that extends into the physical world.

Stage
Pre-seed · Seed
Sector / Focus
Deep tech · Sensors · Wearables
Investment markets
United States
Investor type
VC

Relevant investment

Ubiquity Ventures backed SOND, a wearable-computing company that raised a $7 million round in 2026. The investment fits Ubiquity’s focus on software interacting with the physical world and provides a relevant precedent for sensor-rich consumer hardware that depends on tightly integrated software.

Methodology

DealBio builds investor lists using structured investor research, demonstrated investment activity and current public verification where needed. The methodology highlights investors with evidenced relevance to the article’s sector, stage and geography.

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