Epicore Biosystems has secured $26 million in Series B funding led by the Steele Foundation for Hope (SFFH) to expand its sweat-sensing wearables and cloud analytics platform. The Cambridge-based digital health company plans to use the funding to drive global adoption and expand into new biomarker targets, including women’s health and kidney health.
The technology addresses critical health challenges related to heat exposure, which particularly affects high-risk populations including expecting mothers. Epicore’s sweat-sensing solutions provide real-time insights into hydration, stress, nutrition, and wellness by measuring sweat composition and fluid losses non-invasively.
“Epicore has developed a new class of biochemical sensing wearables that enable the sports, fitness and connected worker sectors to unlock key health and wellness insights,” said Dr. Roozbeh Ghaffari, CEO and co-founder of Epicore Biosystems. “Our technology delivers data-driven recommendations to the wearer to help manage these types of challenges. The Series B investment will help expand our global reach and accelerate the validation of new biomarkers needed to shape the future of personalized hydration and wellness strategies for all.”
The company’s product suite includes the Gx Sweat Patch, developed in partnership with PepsiCo and Gatorade, the Discovery Patch Sweat Collection System (an FDA Class I device), and the Connected Hydration wearable and cloud platform designed for industrial workers.
“Epicore’s commitment to improving personalized health for those in critical need aligned strongly with our mission to improve the quality of life for people in need worldwide,” said Joe Exner, CEO of Steele Foundation for Hope. “We are proud to back Epicore’s pioneering work in sweat-monitoring technology, an innovation with significant potential to address the critical health challenges frontline populations face due to climate change.”
Since its Series A funding three years ago, Epicore has expanded beyond sports and fitness, growing its customer base 24-fold with leading multinational enterprises in energy, construction, manufacturing, and aviation sectors.
