The verified answer
As of Aug 2026, DEPLOY verifies Oura: 1 model, 1 deployment across 1 region, $1.3B raised. 4 sources back the record.
CategoryBiometric wearables
Overview
Oura Health (Oura) is a Finnish health technology company developing the Oura Ring — a Smart ring wearable tracking sleep, heart rate, body temperature, and activity. Raised Series A through D funding. Over 2.5M rings sold. Founded in 2015, headquartered in Oulu, Finland.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 1 deployment on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundGrowth round (valuation reported) post-money
Key facts
Founded
Founders
CEO
Product
Customers
Patents
Units sold
Data & sources
Press releases
1
News coverage
2
Web sources
1
4 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Oura on the deployment map
View the global map1 verified deployment across 1 region, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where Oura's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Oura deployment record →
Relationships
Explainers
Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Oura, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.
What is the FDA Warning Letter to Whoop about Blood Pressure Insights?
What is Oura Ring 4?
Current leadership (7)
- Tom Hale CEOsecondary-verified
- Michael Chapp Chief Operating OfficerIR-verified
- Ricky Bloomfield Chief Medical OfficerIR-verified
- Shyamal Patel SVP of ScienceIR-verified
- Tommi Heinonen SVP of HardwareIR-verified
- Petteri Lahtela ceosince 2013-01-01secondary-verified
- Kari Kivela ctosince 2013-01-01secondary-verified
Founders (3)
- Petteri Lahtelacofounderfounded 2013-01-01no longer at company
- Kari Kivelacofounderfounded 2013-01-01no longer at company
- Markku Koskelacofounderfounded 2013-01-01no longer at company
Board (3)
- David Shuman chair
- Eurie Kim director
- Wen Hsieh director
Former / Previously (2)
- Petteri Lahtela Co-founder & former CEOsecondary-verified
- Harpreet Rai ceosince 2018-01-01secondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Oura.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Oura1 deployment
Recent coverage
Oura in third-party press
Peers
35 peers across 1 segment. Every Oura competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
wearable(35)
32 companies in this segment · highly_concentrated (HHI 2595.3892239124602) · leader Oculus VR at 4361%
- Neuralinkdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Baidudirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Based Hardwaredirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Beedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Brilliant Labsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Dexcomdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Supplied by (2)
Compute / semiconductor
- Infineon Technologiesvia Oura Ring 4Infineon PSoC 6 microcontroller -- dual-core ARM Cortex-M4F + Cortex-M0+ SoC; serves as main application processor and sensor data aggregator in Oura Ring 4; a different PSoC 6 SKU is also used in the charging base; Infineon PSoC 6 accounts for a significant portion of the IC bill of materials (combined with Analog Devices AFE and power management IC, approximately 52% of total IC cost per TechInsights 2024 teardown)supplies
Sensors
- Analog Devicesvia Oura Ring 4Analog Devices MAX86178F analog front-end (AFE) -- multi-parameter biometric sensor hub integrating PPG (photoplethysmography), ECG, and EDA sensing channels; one of the highest-cost ICs in the Oura Ring 4 design; drives the ring's core health monitoring capabilities (heart rate, heart rate variability, blood oxygen, temperature, and skin response)supplies
Inbound supply edges feeding this company directly or via the models it owns. Same source bar as the outbound view (verified against at least two strong sources).
Financial state
- Total funding
- $1.3B
- Employees
- 900
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Funding rounds (6)
Oura’s 5 disclosed rounds, $1.3B in total, oldest to newest.
- Growth round (valuation reported)2025-12-01
$11.0B post
Investors: Fidelity (lead), ICONIQ (follow), Whale Rock Capital (follow), Dexcom (follow)
- Series E2025-10-01
$900M(reported) · $12.6B post
Investors: ICONIQ, Whale Rock Capital, Atreides Management
- Series D2022-01-01
$275M(reported) · $3.3B post
Investors: Fidelity
- Series C2021-01-01
$100M(reported) · $1.0B post
- Series B2020-01-01
$28M(reported) · $224M post
- Series A2018-01-01
$5M(reported) · $30M post
Timeline
Every recorded move in Oura’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundGrowth round (valuation reported) funding round
2025-12-01Growth round (valuation reported)
Funding roundSeries E funding round
2025-10-01Series E raising $900000000
Funding roundSeries D funding round
2022-01-01Series D raising $275000000
Funding roundSeries C funding round
2021-01-01Series C raising $100000000
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2020-01-01Series B raising $28000000
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2018-01-01Series A raising $5000000
Key hireHarpreet Rai joins as ceo
2018-01-01Harpreet Rai appointed ceo
Key hireKari Kivela joins as cto
2013-01-01Kari Kivela appointed cto (current)
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 8, 2026
Introducing Oura Ring 4: Sleeker. Smarter. Made for you.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 4, 2026
Introducing Oura Ring 4
- Record createdJun 3, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Oura Ring 4 at Global
Sources (4)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 1
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Oura.Peer companies
- Google21 models
- Samsung Electronics4 models
- Butterfly Network2 models
- Abbott1 model
- Apple1 model
- Blackrock Neurotech1 model
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Oura from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/oura.md
- RSS feed: /companies/oura/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/8b13207b-ea44-42e3-8878-ec5f057b628b
- Revision history: /companies/oura/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Google21 models
- Samsung Electronics4 models
- Butterfly Network2 models
- Abbott1 model
- Apple1 model
- Blackrock Neurotech1 model
Reality vs attention
Oura draws attention at the 72nd percentile but verifies reality at the 16th percentile among biometric robots. Hype Gap +56.2, 6th widest among biometric robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 1 verified deployment. Well-capitalized with $1.3B raised and recent funding activity. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Aug 29, 2026