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HealthBuds™ collect and feed the highest quality, clinical-grade biometric data into our i-Telligence Agentic AI Coach and give our users proactive, personalized health counsel. They just swap out their current earbuds for HealthBuds and get unmatched sound for calls and music. And, most importantly, improved health and wellness.
synseer is a global health and wellness technology company that enables people of all ages to practice self-led preventive healthcare through an ecosystem of connected wearables that blend medical-grade data with agentic AI-based conversational coaching.
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Investor Deck
Investor Summary
Business Description:
A global health and wellness technology company, synseer enables consumers of all ages to practice self-led preventive healthcare through an ecosystem of connected health wearables that blend medical-grade sensing with agentic AI-based conversational coaching.
The Problem:
Two of the highest cost healthcare issues today are untreated hearing loss and heart disease with annual US costs of $133 and $393 billion respectively. While heart disease is the most expensive disease to treat in the U.S., untreated hearing loss costs $ 1 Trillion globally. And despite being the worlds’ largest healthcare spender, the U.S. has worse health outcomes compared to other high-income countries. Personal healthcare monitoring could improve health and wellness, but current health wearables provide limited, inferior health data.
Products / Services:
With HealthBuds, consumers will receive proactive personalized health counsel based on the highest quality, clinical grade data from our i-Telligence™ Agentic AI Coach. HealthBuds are easy to use, consumers just swap out their current earbuds. And of course, HealthBuds provide premium sound for calls and music.
Traction:
Significant investor interest has enabled two closed rounds of funding. We are currently raising Series A. synseer has deeply impressive business and medical advisory boards.
Market Size:
The addressable market is $316B and is forecasted to double by 2030 ($649B). Our market is comprised of multiple segments including wearables, wireless earbuds, hearing aids, cardiac and hearing health. All segments are growing, with the wearable and wireless earbud segments’ velocity at 17.60 % and 14.06% CAGRs respectively.
Competitive Environment:
Wearable health devices such as the AirPodsPro2, Apple Watch and Oura Ring are a significant segment but don't currently provide the range and/or quality of health data to be provided by HealthBuds. HealthBuds also compete effectively in the wireless earbud segment and excel in the high-end hearing aid market, which is ripe for a new business model. The external risks include skepticism re: wearable efficacy, a recent softening of the smartwatch segment and data fatigue.
Revenue Model/Go-To-Market Approach:
HealthBuds initial commercial sales are to Senior Care Resellers(B2B2C) followed by Direct-to-Consumer, Retail and White Coat (HCP) launches. HealthBuds are offered for an initial cost of $399 with a $30 monthly subscription fee. Included are automatic device updates and cost-free device replacements every 2 years for ongoing subscribers. GTM includes industry thought leadership, advertising on digital platforms and extensive PR. synseer is planning a global foundation to benefit children with untreated hearing loss and heart health issues, including providing refurbished HealthBuds.
Why You Win:
Our sick-care system is clearly failing us; it’s unsustainable on both a human and cost level. HealthBuds are launching as we approach the tipping point for preventive self-care. As part of a groundbreaking ecosystem comprised of innovative hardware, patented sensing environments, cutting-edge software, a deep patent pipeline and agentic AI technologies, HealthBuds provide an unprecedented level and quality of health information, enabling consumers to live their healthiest and most fulfilling lives.
Management
John Martino,
Founder & CEO
Jim Hickey,
Chief Marketing Officer
Afshin Goodarzi,
Chief Data Scientist
Ari Popper,
Chief Visionary Officer
Key Advisors
Dr. Anna Barnacka
Chris Cox
Brian Hackett
Dr. Marc Harrison
Richard Moran
Jerry O’Dwyer
Dr. Ellen Rome
Peter Rome
Jim Sergi
Dorothy Wetzel
Industry
Health and Wellness
Healthtech
Agentic AI
Cardiovascular
Auditory Health
Patents & IP
9 Filed
5 in Development
11+ to Follow
Year Founded
2023
Number of Employees
FT: 7
PT: 1
Past Financing
$6.7 MM raised in initial two rounds
Financing Sought
Series A, $30MM
Our Ai Principles
Our company, synseer, enables consumers to practice self-led preventive healthcare through an ecosystem of connected personal health devices that blend medical-grade sensing with Agentic AI health coaching. AI has become an integral part of our healthcare system, revolutionizing patient care through faster diagnoses, improved accuracy and personalized treatment plans. But AI has also caused harm, through biased advice, inacurate diagnoses and privacy breaches.
As a company dedicated to health and wellness, we take a broader view of our mission—looking beyond solely financial metrics to adhere to a set of principles aligned with PRIMUM NON NOCERE or First, Do No Harm, the cornerstone of medical ethics since the ancient Greeks. By continually evaluating AI risks with the lens of “first do no harm,” we sincerely pledge to:
- Deliver Consumer Centered Care, Full Stop. synseer care is about promoting consumer well-being, not commercial upselling, manipulative nudges or repurposing your data. The recommendations of our AI Health Coach are based on the advice of medical experts and rooted in the deepest respect for human rights and dignity. We sincerely believe that trust, once broken takes more than code to rebuild.
- Foster Personal Digital Vigilance. The synseer Agentic AI ecosystem is built to provide meaningful consumer choice and allow override control. synseer helps consumers overcome consent fatigue by not burying terms in endless scrolls or in complicated legal language. We synseerly believe in helping people take control of their digital identity everywhere they go online—not only within the synseer ecosystem.
- Safeguard Digital Autonomy and Privacy. synseer believes health data belongs to the individual, with access that can be granted or revoked at any time. We employ consent first design and use advanced data science tools to obscure any personally identifying information. Our devices have protective measures to help prevent viral and malware break-ins. We sincerely believe that control over one’s data is a human right.
- Protect Emotional Sovereignty. Emotional well-being is as important as physical and digital sovereignty. Our Agentic AI health coach is monitored to ensure that they do not steer behavior, exploit vulnerabilities or create unhealthy emotional dependency. Threshold triggers are activated whenever personal boundaries are crossed. We are synseerly happy to stay in our lane of inspiring proactive, preventative self-care.
- Adhere to a Strict Handoff Protocol. We train our health coaches to prompt consumers to consult a healthcare professional for complex or nuanced situations, either their own or from a set of providers pre-vetted by synseer. We sincerely believe that humans, not machines, should drive healthcare decision-making.
- Build Transparency into Every Recommendation. Every suggestion our AI Health Coach makes is linked to an audit trail so it can be reviewed for fairness, compliance, and accountability." synseer also encourages consumers to exercise their agency and ask our AI Health Coach, “How did you come to that conclusion?” We sincerely believe in maintaining transparency and responsibility at all stages of AI development and use.
- Keep Our Eyes Wide-Open Regarding Bias. The models behind our AI Health Coach are trained on ethically sourced, representative data, down to how questions are asked. synseer also proactively uses bias probe technology to root out our own cultural blind-spots. We sincerely believe fairness must be a guiding principle, ensuring AI does not perpetuate or amplify bias and discrimination.
- Explain in Plain Language. As proponents of health literacy, the synseer Health Coach has been designed to use language people can understand and act on. synseer pledges to build greater AI literacy by fostering consumer understanding of the ever-evolving nature of AI. We enable our employees to live out our AI principles, both in letter and spirit, through continual AI education. We sincerely believe explainability and education are essential for building trust in AI systems.
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NEWS
synseer Breaks the Sound Barrier to BetterHealth with the Launch of HealthBuds™
HealthBuds Allow You to Truly Listen and Respond to the StoriesYour Body Shares to Drive You to Better Health and Wellness
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. --(BUSINESS WIRE) -- synseer, an intelligent health andwellness company, will officially unveil HealthBuds™ on March 10 at SXSW 2025 inAustin, Texas. Powered by synseer’s breakthrough in-ear infra + ultrasonicoperating system (OS), the HealthBuds hearing, heart and health monitoring devicehas been developed as a more accurate, affordable and comfortable hearing andhealth monitoring device.
HealthBuds are designed to serve as a singular device for listening to music, taking calls, and gaming as well as monitoring your hearing, heart and health. To obtain these health benefits, all users have to do is replace their current earbuds with HealthBuds. How easy is that?
Better Hearing for Better Health
There is a direct connection between the ears and the heart. HealthBuds will make it possible for users to listen to their heart, track their hearing, and tune in to other signals their bodies are sending. HealthBuds’ unique ear-tip design and embedded microphones create a unique AudioDome™, the most pristine listening environment possible. HealthBuds are designed to listen to every heartbeat andgather vastly superior data, collecting it with higher frequency and fidelity thanother monitoring devices. Extensive HealthBuds testing data demonstrates they arecomparable to expensive in-hospital equipment. They are the first devices in apersonal health and wellness ecosystem being developed by synseer.
Every Body Tells a Story – Now You Can Listen to Yours and Take Charge
“Every body tells a story that can improve our health, but most of us are not equipped to understand and respond to what our bodies are telling us,” said synseer founder and CEO John Martino. “HealthBuds have been developed to allow users to truly listen to the unique stories their bodies are sharing with them so they can then take charge – to drive better hearing and better health.”
Martino is a highly regarded technologist and entrepreneur who exited 3 of the 6 companies he’s founded to public companies before creating synseer.
According to Ari Popper, the founder and CEO of Sci Futures and an advisor to the company, “I’ve been helping create preferred future visions for over a decade. The moment I met John, it was clear he was one of a kind and building a future immediately wanted to support and accelerate. HealthBuds are the first of many revolutionary consumer devices from synseer designed to give people a simple, affordable and unmatched way to monitor and maximize their hearing and heart health. It’s a paradigm changer.”
Great Value and Great Purpose
Martino’s purpose-driven philosophy is also reflected in the HealthBuds planned pricing and upgrade policy. Targeted for late summer, 2025 release, users will only pay for them once, followed by a monthly subscription. Every two years they will be able to exchange their HealthBuds for a free upgrade. synseer will then refurbish the returned devices and provide them free to people with untreated hearing loss, the costliest health issue in the world, through their non-profit foundation.
synseer’s SXSW
SXSW attendees and others interested in learning more are invited to register to attend synseer’s Red Thread X VIP SXSW activation for free.
About synseer
synseer is an intelligent health and wellness company that gives people the power to better understand their bodies and take charge of their personal health outcomes. synseer’s flagship offering, HealthBuds, have been designed to provide people with hearing, heart and health monitoring in a single device. synseer’s patent-pending infra + ultrasonic operating system (OS) unites the best of hearing and heart health technology with the best of personal health monitoring in an affordable device that benefits its users and society. HealthBuds are designed to serve as a singular device for listening to music, taking calls, and gaming as well as monitoring your health. HealthBuds are not a medical device and are not intended to diagnose any disease or medical condition and are not yet available commercially. They are scheduled for release in late summer, 2025. www.synseer.ai
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Lana McGilvray
Purpose Worldwide for synseer/HealthBuds
lana@purposenorthamerica.com
+1 512-970-8310
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