sleep app

Also, AXA Hong Kong is offering limited time free trial of Mind Healer online mental health consultation on its mobile app.

Despite the large number of commercially available sleep apps, a new systematic review calls for more evaluations to be conducted, and for more uniformity during the design process.

The funds will support new product development, as well as growth of its distribution channels and commercialization efforts.

The French company analysed aggregated data from its scales, smartwatches and sleep monitoring devices.    

The new backing is led by TPG Growth, and brings Calm’s total funding to $116 million.

Consumer genomics company Helix has partnered with MyVytalics on a new app that gives users insights about how their genes play into their sleep patterns and health.

Calm, developer of the meditation and sleep app of the same name, has raised $27 million in a round of funding led by Insight Ventures that also includes singer Harry Styles (formerly of One Direction) and Sound Ventures, the investment vehicle of actor Ashton Kutcher.

In a new study of 934 mobile phone users, 100 percent said they used a mobile phone for health-related purposes, but only 28 percent used an app to track sleep.

Severna Park, Maryland-based mobile sleep apnea-focused company Appian Medical has raised $580,000 from angel investors to conduct validation studies and apply for FDA 510(k) clearance for its app.