3M New Ventures, the corporate venture organization of 3M, announced that it has invested in Zephyr Technology, a developer of real-time physiological monitoring solutions for well-being applications in healthcare, first responder, sports, military, and industrial markets. The series C financing round also included investments by Alsop Louie Partners, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, and others.
Zephyr is inventing unique ways to monitor human performance through patented smart fabric sensor technology, original algorithms and system design. These sophisticated biometric sensors for monitoring ECG, heart rate, breathing rate, estimated core temperature, activity and posture and BioSense® analysis algorithms provide real-time monitoring of the well-being of people in a wide range of applications. Zephyr is currently operating in markets as diverse as sports, wellness, defense and medical monitoring. In the medical field, products are applied to such things as monitoring of patients in ambulances, health management and in-home monitoring of chronic diseases.