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Sonny Vu (inventor of iBG Star glucose meter) and Misfit Wearables get funding…

  • Writer: Aaron Neinstein
    Aaron Neinstein
  • May 1, 2012
  • 1 min read

From TechCrunch:

Misfit Wearables, a wearable computing startup from the founding team of mobile health company Agamatrix and former Apple chief executive John Sculley, just raised $7.6 million in a round co-led by Founders Fund. The other notable firm in the deal isn’t disclosed, but we hear through a source that it’s Khosla Ventures.

Misfit isn’t saying too much about what it’s working on, except to say that the next generation of wearable devices shouldn’t compete with fashion, has to be ambient and has to have functions outside of sensing. It has to be the kind of thing a consumer wouldn’t need to remember to wear and ideally, it would be something that’s so critical that a person would go back home if they left it there.

“Wearables from the 1.0 era make people look like Iron Man,” said chief executive Sonny Vu.”

Sonny Vu formerly founded Agamatrix, inventor of the iBGStar glucose meter now marketed and sold by Sanofi-Aventis.

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Dr. Aaron Neinstein is the Chief Medical Officer at Notable, the leading intelligent automation company for healthcare. In this role, he employs his care delivery expertise to strengthen Notable's product strategy and roadmap, ensure high-value customer outcomes, and foster healthcare community engagement on the value of AI and automation for patients and care teams.

 

Prior to joining Notable, Dr. Neinstein spent over a decade as a physician executives in digital health and informatics, most recently as Vice President of Digital Health at UCSF Health. He is an Associate Professor in the UCSF Division of Endocrinology, with a clinical practice focused on diabetes care.

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