ŌURA Teams With Dexcom to Link Sleep and Glucose Insights

Summary: Glucose biosensing company Dexcom and wearable smart ring maker Oura are partnering to integrate glucose data with sleep, activity, and vital sign metrics from the Oura Ring. This collaboration aims to provide users with personalized insights into how behaviors like sleep and exercise impact their glucose levels and metabolic health. The integration, expected to launch in 2025, reflects growing interest in connecting sleep and nutrition data to improve health outcomes, with Dexcom also making a $75 million investment in Oura’s Series D funding.

Key Takeaways:

Data Integration for Personalized Insights: The partnership will enable users to track glucose levels alongside sleep and activity metrics, offering personalized correlations to improve metabolic health.
Focus on Sleep’s Role in Metabolic Health: By linking sleep data with glucose and other health metrics, the integration aims to provide users with insights into how sleep impacts nutrition and overall well-being.
Collaboration Signals Industry Investment: Dexcom also announced it is making a $75 million strategic investment in ŌURA Series D funding.

Glucose biosensing company DexCom Inc and smart ring maker ŌURA are partnering to help millions of people improve their metabolic health through the integration of Dexcom glucose data with vital sign, sleep, stress, heart health, and activity data from Oura Ring.

Combining Dexcom glucose data with the biometrics collected by Oura Ring will provide users of both products with a more complete picture of overall health, according to the companies.

“This powerful combination will attract new shared customers who want to better understand the link between activity, sleep, nutrition, and their glucose,” says Matt Dolan, executive vice president of strategy and corporate development at Dexcom, in a release.

With this partnership, Dexcom and ŌURA will launch integrations enabling data to flow between Dexcom and ŌURA products, including Dexcom glucose biosensors, Dexcom apps, Oura Ring, and the Oura App, so shared users can track their glucose levels and understand the impact of behaviors and biology on their metabolic health. The companies will also co-market and cross-sell each other’s products. The first app integration resulting from the partnership is expected to launch in the first half of 2025.

“Ninety-seven percent of Oura Members have expressed interest in understanding how the food they eat impacts their health,” says Tom Hale, ŌURA chief executive officer, in a release. “…Working together, ŌURA and Dexcom will help members decide what and when to eat by surfacing correlations between activities like sleep and exercise and members’ glucose levels. And because we know that people are affected differently by the same foods and activities, guidance and insights will be personalized.”

Dexcom is also making a $75 million strategic investment in ŌURA Series D funding.

Photo caption: Dexcom glucose monitor

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