Articles from Eight Sleep

Eight Sleep, the world’s first sleep fitness company, today announced the launch of its Women’s Sleep Initiative, a multi-year commitment to advancing the science and solutions for sleep for women. As the first step in this initiative, the company is releasing Hot Flash Mode, a new feature highly requested by its members, designed to mitigate nighttime hot flashes by delivering faster, on-demand cooling through the Eight Sleep Pod.

Eight Sleep, the world’s first sleep fitness company, today introduced Pod 5 and a new hydro-powered Blanket, its latest products powered by artificial intelligence and real-time biometric sensing to improve sleep, along with Health Check: a new set of AI-powered algorithms that transform the Pod into a preventative health solution. Now in its fifth generation and building on the success of the award-winning Pod, Pod 5 transforms any bed into an intelligent, adaptive environment, automatically adjusting temperature, elevation, and sound to maximize sleep performance and optimize health. With 92% of Eight Sleep members¹ reporting improved sleep quality after sleeping on the Pod, Pod 5 sets a new benchmark for what sleep technology can deliver.

Charles Leclerc, the world-class racing driver known for his exceptional talent throughout his career, is teaming up with Eight Sleep, the world’s leading sleep fitness company, as an Athlete Ambassador and Investor. With this partnership, Leclerc joins the elite group of hundreds of professional athletes and successful entrepreneurs who use Eight Sleep’s world class sleep technology to fuel their performance, proving recovery is just as critical as speed on the track.

Eight Sleep, the world’s leading sleep fitness company, announces that the EF Education - EasyPost team will use its advanced Pod 4 technology during the 2024 Tour de France. As the Official Sleep Partner, Eight Sleep will provide the team with its award-winning Pods to enhance their recovery and performance. The intelligent system is designed to improve sleep quality, adding up to an hour of sleep per night and reducing wake time by up to three hours per month. The Pods will ensure EF Pro Cycling athletes are well-rested and ready for the challenging stages of the Tour.

Eight Sleep, the world’s first sleep fitness company, announces the additions of Dr. Andrew Huberman, Dr. Matthew Walker, and Dr. Peter Attia to its Scientific Advisory Board. This milestone underscores the company’s ongoing commitment to integrating cutting-edge scientific research into its product development, further solidifying its leadership in sleep technology and pushing the limits on optimizing sleep. Leveraging its research and development lab located in Boston, Eight Sleep has become the pioneer in sleep fitness, with over ten patents built into its products (and another 22 underway) that have been clinically proven to improve sleep quality, increase REM and deep sleep, and reduce snoring.

Today, Eight Sleep, the world’s first sleep fitness company, introduced Pod 4 Ultra, the most powerful and effective sleep technology available. Having undergone a complete redesign, Pod 4 is so advanced, yet so comfortable and 40% quieter, that users don’t even realize it's there while it’s improving their sleep. The Pod’s biometric tracking technology has also gotten a boost thanks to a new proprietary algorithm that automatically detects snoring for up to two individuals in the same bed, without needing any wearables. This is in addition to the Pod’s existing biometric tracking capabilities including heart rate, HRV, respiratory rate, and sleep stages. Pod 4 also has two times more cooling power than the previous Pod generation, allowing it to reach 55°F even in extreme environments. Plus, this latest generation debuts Tap-to-control, a new way to manage the Pod’s features without using a phone, simply by tapping the responsive sensor areas on each side of the Pod.

Eight Sleep, the world’s first sleep fitness company, today announces that Taylor Fritz, the highest-ranked American male Tennis player, joins the company as an Athlete Ambassador and Investor. This partnership also marks Eight Sleep’s official entry into tennis, a sport that rewards consistency through a grueling year-round training season with multi-week tournaments, four annual Grand Slams and continuous travel around the world. As Fritz and other young talent challenge the long-term reign of tennis legends, every detail matters - including getting quality sleep - when it comes to finding a performance edge and winning matches.

For the second consecutive year, Eight Sleep has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023.

Eight Sleep, the world’s first sleep fitness company has appointed former Chief Sales Officer at Peloton, Tim Shannehan, as Chief Revenue Officer. Shannehan will be reporting to CEO and Co-Founder of Eight Sleep, Matteo Franceschetti. As the first Chief Revenue Officer for the company, Shannehan will set the strategy and lead initiatives across all revenue channels, including D2C, Hospitality, International Markets, and beyond, as the company seeks to grow brand awareness and add new distribution partners.

Today, Eight Sleep, the world’s first sleep fitness company, introduced Pod 3, a new version of their award-winning sleep technology. Pod 3 features a new quad-core CPU as well as upgrades to its sensor system, powering more accurate biometric and health tracking with twice the number of sensors and 4000x greater resolution. The new sensor system achieves 99% heart rate sensing accuracy compared to clinical reference¹. Furthermore, clinical data have shown that the technology behind Pod 3 can improve sleep quality index by up to 32%², increase deep sleep by up to 34%³, and increase heart rate variability (HRV) by up to 19%³. The release of Pod 3 is part of Eight Sleep’s journey to transform an ordinary bed into an advanced health platform that fuels both recovery and performance.

Eight Sleep, the world's first sleep fitness company, today announced it has acquired Span Health (Span), a data-driven, health coaching company, to increase personal performance. The acquisition of Span will enhance Eight Sleep’s digital coaching services while unlocking future opportunities to expand its offering with more holistic services and programs. Span’s leadership team including Patrick Samy, Chief Executive Officer, and Adam Bataineh, Chief Medical Officer will be joining the Eight Sleep Product team.

Eight Sleep, the world's first sleep fitness company, today announced that the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula 1 Team has named the company as Official Team Supplier in a joint effort to support the team’s preparations for an expansive 2022 Formula 1 schedule. The Mercedes-AMG Petronas team including drivers, Lewis Hamilton, George Russell, as well as Team Principal, Toto Wolff, will have access to Eight Sleep’s suite of products to optimize their sleep and ensure peak performance this and next season.

Eight Sleep, the world's first sleep fitness company, today named Red Gerard, top ranked snowboarder and U.S. Olympic Gold-Medalist, as an Official Eight Sleep Athlete. Red is one of the most promising athletes of his generation whose resume includes a Gold Medal in 2018’s PyeongChang games, two-time Dew Tour Champion and a bronze medal at the X Games Aspen 2020. Through this partnership, Eight Sleep and Red will continue to increase global awareness for Eight Sleep’s leading technology and showcase how sleep is critical to the performance of everyday people and world class athletes alike. This announcement follows the partnership with Justin Medeiros, 2021 CrossFit Games Champion, illustrating Eight Sleep’s continued effort to build and diversify a roster of elite performance competitors.

Eight Sleep, the world’s first sleep fitness company, today announced that Justin Medeiros, 2021 CrossFit Games Champion, has officially signed with the sleep technology pioneer as an athlete ambassador. In the partnership Medeiros will serve as brand ambassador of Eight Sleep and will help spread awareness around the importance of sleep to maximize athletic potential. Eighth Sleep continues to support Medeiros while training for the Rogue Invitationals as well as other Crossfit competitions both physically at the gym and through recovery at home, to ensure he will compete at optimal potential.

Eight Sleep, the world's first sleep fitness company, today announced that customers based in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain can now purchase the brand’s best-selling Pod Pro Cover, exclusively at eightsleep.com. Available sizes will be EU Double, EU Large Double and EU Super King. The Pod Pro Cover uses PerfectFitTM design to fit any mattress of up to 40cm (16 inches) in height so users can enjoy Eight Sleep’s proprietary sleep improving technology while continuing to use their current mattress. Today’s announcement immediately follows Eight Sleep’s expansion to the UK which began last month, delivering on the company’s plan to extend distribution to international markets following their Series C round of $86M.

Eight Sleep, the world’s first sleep fitness company, has just announced that customers based in the United Kingdom will now be able to purchase the brand’s best-selling Pod Pro Cover, exclusively at eightsleep.com. Available sizes will be UK Double and UK King. The Pod Pro Cover uses PerfectFitTM design to fit any mattress of up to 16 inches (40 cm) in height so users can enjoy Eight Sleep’s proprietary sleep improving technology while continuing to use their current mattress.

Eight Sleep, the world's first sleep fitness company, announced today a collaboration with leading fitness brand Barry’s to become its Official Sleep Fitness Partner. The active Barry’s community can now level up their health and wellness, not only through fitness, but also through Eight Sleep’s advanced sleep technology.

Eight Sleep, the world's first sleep fitness company, today announced it has closed $86M in Series C funding led by Valor Equity Partners, with participation from other funds, including SoftBank, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, and General Catalyst. Antonio Gracias, Valor’s Founder, CEO, and CIO, joined the Eight Sleep Board. Mr. Gracias sits on the boards of Tesla, SpaceX, and K Health and has led investments in other highly disruptive companies, including Bird, Reddit, and Uber. Since the launch of its best-selling Pod technology, Eight Sleep has built a cult-like following amongst celebrities, pro athletes, entrepreneurs, and executives, many of whom are invested in the company, including Alex Rodriguez (retired MLB athlete and entrepreneur), Kevin Hart (actor and comedian), Kyle Vogt (founder of Cruise), Naval Ravikant (founder of Angelist), Anthony Pompliano (entrepreneur), Kris Bryant (San Francisco Giants outfielder), J.D. Martinez (Boston Red Sox outfielder), and Sophia Amoruso (author and entrepreneur). To date, Eight Sleep has raised over $150M and 2021 revenue is on track to more than triple vs. 2020. The funds will be used to accelerate the company’s innovation and technology roadmap and grow the size of the team.