Key Investor Signals
Secured CHF 150,000 in Venture Kick funding
calmea received CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick in June 2026 to fund prototype installations and prepare pilot series with bed-manufacturing partners.
Engaged bed manufacturers ahead of pilot production
Manufacturing partners were already engaged when Venture Kick announced its support, with prototype installations planned ahead of pilot series.
Spun out sleep-engineering research from ETH Zurich
The team emerged from ETH Zurich’s Sensory-Motor Systems Lab, where Alexander Breuss and Manuel Fujs worked on the Somnomat Casa sleep-robotics project.
Other Positive Signals
- Levin Engeli brings 10 years in industrial automation, product design and embedded systems to the founding team.
Team
Alexander Breuss
CEO and Co-founder
- Earned a doctorate at ETH Zurich’s Sensory-Motor Systems Lab, building research experience in sleep-related engineering.
- Completed an ETH master’s in Robotics, Systems and Control after a bachelor’s in Computer Science.
- Worked as a BRIDGE proof-of-concept postdoctoral fellow, supporting the translation of laboratory research toward a venture.
Manuel Fujs
CTO and Co-founder
- Completed electrical engineering and information technology studies at the Technical University of Munich, focusing on robotics and machine learning.
- Developed an autonomous search drone for avalanche victims during a bachelor’s thesis at ETH Zurich’s Autonomous Systems Lab.
- Worked in the Sensory-Motor Systems Lab from 2022 and helped develop the Somnomat Casa sleep-robotics project.
Leo Küng
CCO and Co-founder
- Worked on enterprise sales for AI software at Boardwise in 2025–2026, gaining business-to-business customer-development experience.
- Completed a strategy consulting internship at Prof. Bruhn & Partner in 2025, working with companies and public institutions in the DACH region.
- Supported digital-transformation strategy at Lufthansa Group during a 2023 business-development and commercial-management internship.
Product
calmea’s module sits within the bed structure and combines mechanical body-signal sensing with environmental sensors. Machine learning interprets the combined data, while an app and smart-home connections support insights and bedroom adjustments.
Contactless body-signal sensing
The module senses tiny mechanical forces caused by heartbeat, breathing and movement through the bed frame. This principle, called ballistocardiography, enables measurement without a device touching the sleeper.
Tracking bedroom conditions
Sensors capture temperature, humidity, air quality and light alongside body signals. The sleep model combines these inputs to characterize the night and help users identify patterns linked to their rest.
Connecting insights with room controls
The system is designed to connect with existing smart-home devices and coordinate lighting, sound, climate and wake-up timing. Bed manufacturers integrate the module as a component in their own product lines.
Market Overview
Smart beds and non-wearable sleep tracking form a growing connected-sleep market built around continuous sensing in the bedroom. The global smart-bed market was valued at $3.64B in 2025, while non-wearable sleep trackers represented a $1.6B market, showing demand for technology embedded into everyday sleep environments.
Its addressable opportunity extends beyond people with diagnosed sleep disorders to consumers buying connected beds and sleep technology. Smart beds are projected to reach $7.27B by 2034, while under-mattress devices already account for more than half of the non-wearable sleep-tracker market.
Global smart-bed market value in 2025, before forecast expansion to $7.27B by 2034.
Forecast compound annual growth of the global smart-bed market from 2026 to 2034.
Estimated global market value for non-wearable sleep trackers in 2025.
Share of the non-wearable sleep-tracker market held by under-mattress devices in 2025.
Comparable Outcomes
BAM Labs
Developed biometric sensor and sleep-monitoring technology embedded in beds, including the SleepIQ system commercialized with Select Comfort. Select Comfort acquired the remaining 82% of BAM Labs in 2015 for about $58M in cash, bringing the embedded sleep-sensing technology fully in-house.
Beddit
Developed a bed-based sensor and app that tracked sleep, heart rate, breathing and bedroom conditions without a wrist-worn device. Apple acquired Beddit in May 2017 after the Finnish company developed a bed-based sleep sensor and companion app.
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