Metabolic fitness platform Ultrahuman acquires LazyCo

CHENNAI:

Metabolic fitness platform

Ultrahuman has acquired

LazyCo

, the company behind the Aina ring wearable.

LazyCo will integrate with Ultrahuman’s global in-house hardware development team, and

Ultrahuman

will leverage the LazyCo team’s expertise to generate deeper metabolic insights and better overall health insights for consumers. LazyCo founders

Apoorv Shankar

and

Yogansh Namdeo

will also join the company.

Ultrahuman launched a wearable (the Ultrahuman M1) - a metabolic health tracking platform that provides intelligent nudges based on glucose biomarkers. This helps people optimize their exercise, sleep and nutrition based on deep insights from the platform.

With this acquisition, Ultrahuman said it wants to expand the set of real-time biomarkers that could provide unique health insights upon correlation.

Ultrahuman was started by Mohit Kumar and Vatsal Singhal who were also co-founders at Runnr which later merged with Zomato. It has raised $25m to date. Their investors include Alpha Wave Incubation, Steadview Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Blume Ventures and others.

Over a billion people in the world suffer from a metabolic health disorder which contributes to almost 85% of all chronic diseases in the world, Ultrahuman said in a statement.

"By helping people understand how food and exercise affect their metabolic health, people would be able to make informed choices about what they eat and their activity levels. The approach is a geography/diet agnostic way to help people eat and exercise better," it added.

LazyCo's Aina Ring - an AI-powered smart ring- is designed to predict and automate daily tasks without the need to take the phone out of the pocket. Digital tasks such as booking cabs, controlling smart home devices, activating SOS alerts, and taking phone calls can be carried out through the ring.

“Ultrahuman’s vision of making health more personalized and impactful for people syncs with LazyCo’s vision of building products that solve problems for people in the most effortless ways. Together, we can create a deeper impact on the overall health of the world,” said Apoorv Shankar, co-founder and CEO, LazyCo.