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The Mattress Giant That Wants to Own the Whole Night
Somnigroup already makes the mattress and owns much of the store that sells it. Now the company is reaching deeper into sleep technology and the supply chain - a bet that the winner in bedding will control more than a brand name.
Sleep Number Put Software in the Mattress. Then the Business Lost Its Balance.
Sleep Number spent four decades turning a squishy air chamber into a connected health platform. Its technology found millions of sleepers; its expensive retail machine found a harder morning.
The 145-Year-Old Sleep Machine Hiding Inside America’s Mattress Aisle
Sealy began with compressed cotton in a Texas workshop. Today its real product is a carefully engineered compromise - support, pressure relief and price - sold through nearly every route a mattress can take to a bedroom.
Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC
Two 19th-century mattress dynasties, one bed-in-a-box upstart, thirty-odd factories, and a $1.6 billion debt cut - how the biggest name in American sleep rebuilt itself while you weren't looking.
Hatch
Hatch is a Menlo Park sleep-technology company that designs bedside devices and a companion content subscription to help people fall asleep and wake up better. Founded in 2014 by former BabyCenter executives Ann Crady Weiss and Dave Weiss, it started with connected products for babies and toddlers (Hatch Rest) before expanding to adults with the Hatch Restore line of sunrise alarm clocks and sound machines. The company pairs hardware with the Hatch Sleep app and the paid Hatch+ library of sleep sounds, sleep stories, meditations and light-based wind-down routines, reaching more than half a million families.
Wesper
Wesper is a New York-based sleep-health company that has built a wireless, wearable patch and cloud platform for clinical-grade, at-home sleep apnea testing. Founded in 2017 (originally as Tatch) by Dr. Amir Reuveny and Adi Mordechai, Wesper combines flexible printed electronics, machine learning, and a provider portal to replace the wires and single-night snapshots of traditional sleep labs with comfortable, repeatable, longitudinal testing. The FDA-cleared Wesper Lab lets patients test at home while giving physicians high-resolution data that correlates closely with in-lab polysomnography.
CPAP.com
CPAP.com is the largest internet retailer of CPAP equipment for sleep apnea treatment, founded in 1999 by Johnny Goodman and his father in Stafford, Texas. The family-owned e-commerce company carries over 1,000 products including CPAP machines, BiPAP machines, masks, and accessories from all major brands, helping more than 2.3 million people find effective sleep apnea therapy. With 25+ years of experience, a community of 40,000+ members on CPAPtalk.com, and institutional backing from Cathay Capital and The Silverfern Group, CPAP.com has become the go-to destination for both new and experienced sleep apnea patients navigating their treatment journey.