Happy Ring
Happy Health is circling back.
What’s happening: The company co-founded by Tinder’s Sean Rad gained FDA clearance for a medical-grade smart ring.
Reforged. Launched in 2022, Happy Ring 1.0 focused on mood and stress, pairing sweat-reading sensors with a subscription mindfulness app.
Pivoting to healthcare, the new ring tracks sleep, brain activity, and more — contextualizing data to help users and care teams manage chronic conditions.
Partnering with hospitals on clinical programs, Happy’s first sleep health initiative will launch later this year.
Rings of Power
Specializing to stand out, Happy enters an evolving smart ring war.
- Samsung began shipping its subscription-free Galaxy Ring this summer.
- Oura just unveiled its Gen 4 Ring, acquired metabolic health platform Veri, and landed a $96M contract with the US military.
- New niches, Zepp Health debuted the low-priced Amazfit Helio Ring, and CUDIS secured $5M to launch a smart ring platform built on blockchain.
Meanwhile, Oura recently bested Fitbit and Apple Watch on clinical sleep tracking accuracy. Both notable ring patent holders, Apple reportedly won’t pursue the form factor.
Looking ahead: Evie, Ultrahuman, Circular, and all the above, health-tracking rings are having a moment — and healthcare may be everyone’s endgame.
