Epicore Biosystems Raises $26M in Series B Funding
Summary
The company intends to use the funds to drive global adoption of its personalized hydration and cloud analytics platform and expand into new biomarker targets relevant to kidney health, women’s health, malnutrition and environmental toxin exposures. Led by CEO Dr. Roozbeh Ghaffari, Epicore Biosystems is a digital health company spun out of Northwestern University’s Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics and the John Rogers Laboratory. It has developed advanced sweat-sensing wearables that provide real-time personalized health insights. Its suite of sweat-sensing wearable solutions includes the Gx Sweat Patch, commercialized in partnership with PepsiCo and Gatorade, the Discovery Patch® Sweat Collection System (FDA Class I device) and the Connected Hydration wearable and cloud platform tailored for industrial workers. Their clinically validated biowearable solutions and cloud analytics are deployed globally and licensed by Fortune 500 companies, the Department of Defense and the National Institute of Health.