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It has been a big couple of weeks — an award, a conference stage in Silicon Valley, acquisition and a few things we want to put directly in your hands if you're building something right now. Let's get into it.

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Michael has been working in various digital capacities across his 10+ year marketing career. Prior to co-founding DotDays, he ran the marketing for the ParticipACTION health & fitness app where he brought it to #1 in the App Store. Prior to that, he launched the popular TimePlay movie trivia app at AMC theatres across America. After completing his MBA at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, Michael ran the social media marketing for TED Talks where he got it to the #1 trending topic on X (Twitter) and previously worked in marketing at the Royal Bank of Canada, Dell and KPMG.

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Utsav Gupta is the founder of ByteForge, a product firm that takes wearable and hardware ideas from napkin sketch to manufacturing. Before that he led electrical architecture at Lumia Health, building the world's smallest in-ear wearable to track blood flow to the head, after cutting his teeth on biosensing and batteries at Whoop and autonomous delivery robots at Nuro.

ByteForge- Product development for wearable and hardware startups. They're an all-in-one shop: electrical, firmware, and mechanical engineering from early R&D all the way through manufacturing. If you're a founder trying to get from "I have an idea" to "I have a device I can ship," that's exactly the gap they fill.

Utsav will be in San Francisco in late August and early September, and encourages hardware founders to reach out and talk.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/utsav22g
Email: [email protected]
Web: byteforgesystems.io

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Daniela Campillo is the co-founder of femmli, a femtech startup building continuous hormone monitoring for perimenopausal women. She holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and a B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Chicago. Before femmli, Dani built her career with intention: she started in equity derivatives sales at Goldman Sachs, where she worked on a two-person team that grew revenue 200% over three years to $30M, then moved into a fractional CFO role at Pilot.com advising 20+ startups on fundraising, financial strategy, and growth.  femmli took shape at MIT Sloan, where she set out to build at the intersection of the areas she cares about most: health literacy and women's empowerment.

If you are a woman between 38 and 55 who has ever left a doctor's appointment feeling dismissed, told your levels are "within range" while your symptoms go unexplained, femmli is being built for you.

Follow femmli on Instagram at @myfemmli and join the waitlist at femmli.com.

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Sirisha Adimatyam is the Founder and CEO of Innovosens AB, a female-founded wearable health technology company pioneering non-invasive sweat sensing solutions for hydration, electrolyte, lactate, and metabolic monitoring.

Under her leadership, Innovosens has developed patent-pending microfluidic wearable technologies and digital health platforms that provide real-time, actionable insights into hydration, electrolyte balance, and human performance. The company serves sports performance, occupational health and safety, and consumer wellness markets, helping individuals and organizations make data-driven decisions to improve health outcomes and performance.

Built within Sweden’s life sciences and innovation ecosystem, Innovosens has secured more than $1.5 million in grants, investments, and strategic funding and has received support and recognition from the European Commission Seal of Excellence, EIT Health, Eureka Eurostars, Vinnova, Sten K. Johnson Foundation, and TiE Germany. The company has also been selected for the Sony Startup Acceleration Program and Garmin Developer Program and has established collaborations and engagements with organizations including Mayo Clinic, UC San Diego, Garmin, Nike-affiliated performance coaches, universities, and elite sports programs.

Having successfully navigated the challenges of building a deep-tech startup through the pandemic and multiple market pivots, Sirisha has positioned Innovosens for global expansion at the intersection of wearable technology, digital health, AI, and personalized wellness.

Her mission is to unlock a new frontier in human health data through sweat biosensing technology, enabling a future where healthcare is proactive, personalized, and accessible to all.

She is actively building and scaling IoT-enabled sweat wearable solutions and analytics platforms (apps + dashboards) for hydration, electrolytes, lactate, and cortisol monitoring across sports performance, elite athletics, and occupational health & safety (OHS). The system delivers real-time, actionable insights for performance optimization, fatigue management, and prevention-first health monitoring.

Learn more or explore collaboration:
Hydrosense Coach Platform
Innovosens

For direct discussions on partnerships, pilots, or investment opportunities, contact via LinkedIn (search: Sirisha Adimatyam).

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Daryl “DJ” Riley Jr. is the Co-Founder & CEO of Tendaji, a fashion tech startup developing solar-powered wearable technology, beginning with a wireless charging jacket. What started as a senior design project at Hampton University has evolved into a patent-pending venture focused on redefining how people power their everyday lives through sustainable innovation.

DJ’s leadership has earned national recognition, including being a Prize Winner of Pharrell Williams’ Black Ambition Competition, a Fellow in the 2025 beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship, and a panelist at the 2026 beVisioneers Global Summit in Germany. He has also been featured in Essence Magazine, named to Hampton University’s Forty Under 40, and engaged with global platforms such as Microsoft’s #MakeWhatsNext Patent Program that support innovation and entrepreneurship.

Follow @ten.daji on Instagram to stay up to date on their progress.

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If you are trying to navigate the second half of 2026, the data shows that the "geek factor" of early wearables is dead. The future belongs to invisible tech. Let's break down the massive moves from this past week.

This week we provide updates on FashTech, Go Healthy with Taiwan 2026, SBIR/STTR funding deadlines and a recap of the impact of the WHOOP and FDA debacle. 

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With the federal momentum and market movement in mind, Coach L looks at the three macro trends driving our investment committee at Wearable Tech Ventures based on this week’s data.

Trend Number One: The General Wellness Exemption Fast-Track. 

Trend Number Two: The Government-Backed Lab-on-Body. 

Trend Number Three: Agentic Industrial Tech. 

If you are a founder building the next breakthrough in health tech, or an investor looking to partner with the best in the ecosystem:

• Register to be a guest on an upcoming episode of The Wearable Takeover. Let’s get your story out to our network of builders and allocators.
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In the returning episode kicking off Season 5, Coach L highlights the week of venture news including the historic raise for Clair Health, Snap's launch of their new glasses, and historic raises on Kickstarter for Hexis and Helio Strap Pro. 

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Meagan Pitcher is co-founder and CEO at Bairitone Health, which is bringing advanced imaging diagnostics into the home environment. 

Meagan worked on several neurology and ophthalmology projects at Lexicon Pharmaceuticals and managed a diverse intellectual property portfolio as a technology transfer officer at Baylor College of Medicine. Meagan holds a Ph.D. in translational biology and molecular medicine from Baylor College of Medicine and a B.S. in genetics from Texas A&M University.

Join Bairitone's mailing list or setup up an introductory call to learn more. 
https://bairitone.com/

 Research collaborators are welcome. 

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