Smart ring maker Oura raises 0M from Fidelity

Smart ring maker Oura raises $900M from Fidelity

Finnish health tech company Oura has raised $900 million in fresh funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, with participation from new investor ICONIQ and contributions from Whale Rock and Atreides. The company said today that this funding will value it at “approximately $11 billion,” more than double the valuation it received for its…

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Only 5 days remain to book your exhibit table at Disrupt 2025

Only 5 days remain to book your exhibit table at Disrupt 2025

If you’ve been thinking about joining 10,000+ startup and VC leaders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco on October 27–29, the time to act is now. Lock in your place on the Expo floor, where ideas, capital, and connections collide.  As of now, there are only 7 exhibit tables available, and we expect them to sell out before the deadline. And yes, this is the same inventory your…

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Meta CTO explains why the smart glasses demos failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi

Meta CTO explains why the smart glasses demos failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi

Meta chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth took to his Instagram to explain, in more technical detail, why multiple demos of Meta’s new smart glasses technology failed at Meta Connect, the company’s developer conference, this week. Meta on Wednesday introduced three new pairs of smart glasses, including an upgraded version of its existing Ray-Ban Meta, a…

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