December 28, 2024

Summary: ŌURA, the company behind the Oura Ring, completed a $200 million Series D funding round, raising its valuation to $5.2 billion. The funding will support product expansion, healthcare innovation—including artificial intelligence—global growth, and potential acquisitions. The funding comes after a year in which ŌURA reported higher sales, expanded its retail and commercial partnerships, and…

Recently, I enjoyed reconnecting with a friend from college who is now sixty-something years old (like me) and who cares for her elderly mom (like me). There are a lot of us! This friend described how she and her husband took her mother, a widow in declining health, into their home; they had thought the…