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Anoria Wants to Put a Number on Your Mood - Then Teach You What to Do With It
The ex-Apple team behind Anoria is betting that the next useful wearable will track the thing sleep scores and step counts only circle around: how you actually feel. The opportunity is intimate, useful and full of hard questions.
The AI Listening to Your Whole Day Is Hiding in a Necklace
Three ex-Meta builders and a celebrity jewelry designer raised $8 million to make a 10-gram pendant that journals your life, tracks your moods, and texts you back. The catch: it only works if you almost never take it off.
He Built Weapons for the Navy. Then He Built a Teddy Bear That Listens.
Jacob Boyle graduated with $90 and a foam robot named MARCo. Seven years later it has talked with more than 15,000 people across 13 countries - and in a handful of cases, it called for help before things got worse.
Doctor Anywhere
Doctor Anywhere is a Singapore-headquartered, tech-led healthcare company founded in 2017 by Lim Wai Mun. It started as a telemedicine app that put a licensed doctor on a video call within minutes, then deliberately grew downward into the physical world - GP clinics, specialist practices, health screening and imaging suites, home visits, medication delivery and an in-app health marketplace. The company describes the result as a 'Hospital Anywhere' model: one app that carries a patient from a 2am sore throat to a knee surgeon, across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. It serves roughly 3 million users, sells to consumers, corporates and insurers, and has raised about US$176 million from investors including Asia Partners, Novo Holdings, Square Peg, EDBI, IHH Healthcare, Philips and Pavilion Capital.
Muse by Interaxon Inc.
Muse, made by Toronto-based Interaxon Inc., is a brain-sensing headband that turns clinical-grade EEG into a consumer wearable. First shipped in 2014, Muse reads your brainwaves and, through a companion app, gives real-time audio feedback to guide meditation, track sleep, and train focus. The company has since layered on fNIRS and SpO2 sensing (Muse S Athena, 2025) and an AI brain-health platform trained on more than a billion minutes of EEG data, positioning Muse at the intersection of consumer wellness and clinical neuroscience.
Shift Health
Shift Health is a San Francisco-based healthtech startup building a Human+AI behavioral care platform that keeps people supported between clinical visits. Its AI coach delivers 24/7, in-the-moment guidance across mental, physical, and behavioral health, while care teams set the protocols, tone, and clinical guardrails. Available as a consumer app ('Shift - AI Mental Health') and as an enterprise platform aimed at health systems, employers, and high-demand professions like first responders and veterans, the company frames good outcomes as coming from 'what happens between visits.'
Rarebird, Inc.
Rarebird is a New York and San Leandro-based specialty coffee company that replaces caffeine with paraxanthine (Px), the natural metabolite your body turns caffeine into. Founded by bioengineer Dr. Jeffrey Dietrich, Rarebird uses a patented reverse-infusion process to load 60mg of Px into single-origin Colombian decaf beans, promising alertness and focus without the jitters, anxiety, cortisol spikes, or wrecked sleep. Backed by Y Combinator, AgFunder, First Round Capital and the National Science Foundation, Rarebird is trying to make Px 'the third coffee' - a category alongside regular and decaf.