Epicore Biosystems Raises $26 Million in Series B Funding

Epicore Biosystems announced that it has raised $26 million in Series B funding led by the Steele Foundation for Hope (SFFH). The funding will help Epicore 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.

Excessive heat exposure poses significant global challenges, particularly for individuals at the highest risk of heat injury, such as industrial workers, children, and expecting mothers. The threat of heat and the compounding effects of environmental toxins have been shown to result in acute health risks and chronic conditions at alarming rates.

Epicore addresses these challenges with its sweat-sensing solutions that offer real-time insights into hydration, stress, nutrition and wellness. Epicore’s technology taps into the underlying biochemistry and metabolic health by measuring sweat composition and fluid losses, non-invasively, and in tandem with traditional digital biomarkers to alert when a wearer is at risk of heat injury, dehydration or malnutrition.

“Epicore has developed a new class of biochemical sensing wearables that enable the sports, fitness and connected worker sectors to unlock key health and wellness insights,” said Dr. Roozbeh Ghaffari, CEO and co-founder of Epicore Biosystems. “Our technology delivers data-driven recommendations to the wearer to help manage these types of challenges. The Series B investment will help expand our global reach and accelerate the validation of new biomarkers needed to shape the future of personalized hydration and wellness strategies for all.”

Epicore’s 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.

Since completing its Series A over three years ago, Epicore has expanded beyond sports and fitness and grown its customer base by 24x with leading multinational enterprises in the energy, construction, manufacturing and aviation sectors.