Series A · Healthtech · Neuchâtel, Switzerland · Founded 2018 · 60–70 employees
Aktiia (now rebranded as Hilo) is a Swiss medtech startup that has developed groundbreaking cuffless blood pressure monitoring technology using optical sensors and AI. Their wrist-worn device captures readings approximately every 90 minutes including during sleep, providing continuous blood pressure data without traditional cuffs. The company's AI model is trained on billions of optical signals and hundreds of millions of readings from over 120,000 users, making it one of the largest datasets in the field. Having raised €88 million total funding including a recent €37 million Series B round, Aktiia has achieved CE marking for its technology and is expanding globally to address hypertension management for over 1.4 billion people worldwide affected by high blood pressure.