Top 22 Sports Wearable Startups

September 01, 2024 | By Paul Schäfer

These startups create sports wearables that are integrating advanced sensors and artificial intelligence, enabling athletes and fitness enthusiasts to monitor various parameters such as heart rate, movement, sleep quality, and help in improving individual performance but also in preventing injuries and optimizing training regimes.
1
Country: USA | Funding: $404.8M
WHOOP is a sports tech company that makes wearable fitness trackers to monitor calories burned, sleep, strain, recovery, and stress 24/7. The company also provides personalized coaching to enhance sports and fitness performance.
2
Country: India | Funding: $60.1M
Ultrahuman manufactures personal health and smart wearables for fitness and sports tracking. Their flagship product, the Ultrahuman M1, is a glucose monitoring device that tracks glucose levels in real-time using Abbott's Freestyle Libre CGM Sensor. The startup also makes compact smart rings that monitor sleep, movement, and recovery.
3
Country: UK | Funding: $40M
Playermaker is a football tech startup that provides coaching enhancement solutions for football academies.
4
Country: Sweden | Funding: $8.9M
DeWiz Golf is a training aid that offers wearable tech solutions.
5
Country: USA | Funding: $1.2M
Sports technology company focused on revolutionizing the swimming world
6
Country: USA | Funding: $730K
Stryd is a running tool to help run injury-free, train effectively, and race.
7
Country: UK | Funding: £250K
ORB Innovations is a deep tech startup that creates Smart Mouthguard, a next-gen smart wearable engineered for contact and combat sport athletes.
8
Country: USA | Funding: $30K
ReTiSense was founded on the principles of building technology and solutions with the sole intention of providing actionable guidance
9
Country: USA | Funding: $10K
Fusing knowledge in sports science, bioinformatics and machine learning to model the dynamics of biological adaptation. We are evolving our ability to predict optimal health and performance outcomes.
10
Country: China
Coospo develops heart rate monitor for cycling, GPS bike computer and mobile app for cycling.
Editor: Paul Schäfer
Paul is a sport journalist for more than 11 years. He specializes in writing match previews across several leagues and competitions around the world, and his insightful tips have amassed a total readership in excess of 5.2 million till date. He graduated from the Universität Hamburg (Institute of Human Movement Science). He is a huge fan of Bayern Munich. In his free time, Paul enjoys playing tennis and padel with his collegues. You can contact Paul at paulschafer(at)sportstartups(dot)com