What Bloomer Health Tech does

Bloomer Health Tech is a Boston-based, privately held medical device company founded in 2017 that is developing the Bloomer Platform, a wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) device integrated into a bra form factor (the Bloomer Bra), to generate digital biomarkers specific to women's cardiovascular health. The company's patented data-acquisition platform combines textile-based sensors, an electrical harness, a patient-facing mobile application, and secure server infrastructure to continuously collect heart rate, ECG, heart rate variability, R-R interval, respiration rate, skin temperature, activity, posture, and motion data. AI and machine learning algorithms trained on de-identified female physiological data process this stream to support arrhythmia detection and predictive cardiac insights. The product remains an investigational device under U.S. federal law and is distributed exclusively through IRB-approved clinical research studies rather than commercial channels.

The company targets a documented gender gap in cardiovascular research: women were largely excluded from cardiovascular clinical trials until 1993, and existing monitoring technologies were largely developed using male physiology. Primary target segments include women with cardiovascular health concerns (consumer persona), healthcare providers and clinicians who need female-specific cardiac data for diagnosis, and academic and medical research institutions conducting women's cardiovascular research. The intended business model combines two revenue streams: hardware sales of the Bloomer Bra medical device and recurring data services for precision cardiovascular care. Commercial pricing has not been disclosed, and the company has no named paying customers.

Bloomer Health Tech is founder-led by CEO Alicia Chong Rodriguez and COO Aceil Halaby, with an approximately 10-person team spanning engineering, regulatory affairs, clinical trials, design, cybersecurity, and software. Disclosed funding events span 2017 through 2025, including a $3 million venture round led by Material Impact in March 2020 with participation from 77 and One Brave Idea, a $1.9 million federal grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in November 2023, and grant funding from MassVentures. Founder Alicia Chong Rodriguez was named a 2024 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

Name

Bloomer Health Tech

Legal name

Bloomer Health Tech

Website

https://bloomertech.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Bloomer Health Tech is a private, Boston-based medical device company developing a wearable ECG bra and AI analytics platform that generates digital biomarkers for women's cardiovascular health. The investigational device is in clinical trials and is not yet commercially available.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Women's cardiovascular wearable medical devices

NAICS

Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing (334510), Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (33451)

SIC

Electromedical & Electrotherapeutic Apparatus (3845), Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus (3841)

akta.pro primary industry

Cardiac Monitoring (ECG/Holter/Event/Patch, Loop Recorders) (HLAHACAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Connected Medical Devices & Wearables (Sensors, Patches, Implantables) (HLACAPAB), Health Monitoring Wearables (ECG, BP, SpO2, CGM-compatible) (CRACAIAF)

Keywords

• Women's cardiovascular health
• Wearable ECG device
• Digital biomarkers
• Femtech medical device
• Cardiac monitoring platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Cambridge

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Medical Device Sales: The company is developing a wearable electrocardiogram medical device (Bloomer Bra) that will be sold to patients and healthcare providers. The device is currently in clinical trial phase and not yet commercially available.
2. Data Services: Precision cardiovascular care and data services leveraging female physiology data to assist clinicians with recognizing and diagnosing signs, symptoms, and risk factors of heart disease in women.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Bloomer Health Tech is developing the Bloomer Platform, an investigational wearable medical device system built around the Bloomer Bra—a patented textile garment with embedded ECG and multi-parameter sensors—and the companion Bloomer App. The platform captures continuous cardiac and physiological data (ECG, heart rate variability, respiration, skin temperature, activity, posture, motion) from female users, applies AI/ML algorithms to detect arrhythmia and generate digital biomarkers, and makes this data accessible to clinicians for personalized cardiovascular care and early detection of heart disease in women.

Product overview

Bloomer Tech offers a unified platform called the Bloomer Platform (also referred to as the Bloomer Augmented Garment Platform), which consists of multiple integrated components working together. The core offering includes the Bloomer Bra—a wearable electrocardiogram device with advanced sensing technology in a bra form factor—and the Bloomer App, a patient-facing mobile application showing key metrics and interactive tools. Supporting components include Bloomer Data (for data collection and aggregation) and Bloomer Analytics (for analysis and real-time insights). The platform is designed for precision cardiovascular care, generating digital biomarkers for women's health with female physiology at its core, enabling decentralized cardiac rehab and monitoring.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Bloomer App: Patient-facing mobile application that shows key cardiac metrics and has interactive tools to help women improve their heart health.
• Bloomer Bra
• Bloomer Data
• Bloomer Analytics
• Bloomer Platform

Products and services

• Bloomer Platform The Bloomer Platform (also referred to as the Bloomer Augmented Garment Platform) is the company's flagship investigational product: a patented data-acquisition system comprising textile-embedded sensors, an electrical harness integrated into a bra-form garment, a companion mobile app and software library, and a secure server. It enables decentralized cardiac rehabilitation and remote monitoring by capturing continuous ECG, heart rate variability, R-R interval, respiration, skin temperature, activity, posture, and motion data for women.
• Bloomer Bra The Bloomer Bra is a wearable electrocardiogram medical device designed to look and feel like a bra, integrating advanced textile sensors and an electrical harness for real-time cardiac monitoring in women. It is the core hardware of the Bloomer Platform and is currently labeled as an investigational device limited by U.S. federal law to investigational use.
• Bloomer App The Bloomer App is the patient-facing mobile application of the Bloomer Platform. It displays key cardiac metrics such as heart rate and ECG-derived insights, provides interactive tools to help women improve heart health, and enables symptom and health journaling that feeds into the broader data and analytics components.

Quantifiable outcome

• Digital biomarkers generated from continuous cardiac monitoring to assist clinicians with early detection of heart disease signs and symptoms in women

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Others

• Elvie: Elvie is a women's health tech company focused on pelvic floor and breast pump hardware. It is thematically comparable as a women's-health hardware brand but does not compete directly in cardiac monitoring; useful for brand-building and channel benchmarking.

Direct peers

• iRhythm Technologies: iRhythm's Zio is a long-term continuous cardiac monitoring patch with AI-based arrhythmia detection and a clinical service layer. It is the closest analog to Bloomer Tech's continuous ambulatory ECG + analytics platform, differing primarily in form factor (patch vs. garment).
• AliveCor: AliveCor (KardiaMobile) sells FDA-cleared consumer and clinical ECG hardware paired with AI arrhythmia detection software. It directly overlaps with Bloomer Tech on mobile ECG capture + AI interpretation for cardiac monitoring.
• Eko Health: Eko Health builds digital stethoscope and ECG hardware with AI cardiac analysis for clinicians. It competes with Bloomer Tech in the connected cardiac-monitoring device + AI analytics category, though it uses handheld rather than garment form factors.
• Withings: Withings produces connected health devices including ECG-equipped watches, blood pressure monitors, and sleep-tracking mats with companion apps. It is comparable in offering consumer-friendly cardiac and vital-sign wearables with a data platform.
• BioIntelliSense: BioIntelliSense develops continuous multi-parameter wearable sensors and a remote monitoring data platform for clinical and home use. It overlaps with Bloomer Tech on continuous vital-sign capture, data platform, and RPM analytics.

Broad incumbents

• Apple (Apple Watch ECG): Apple Watch includes an FDA-cleared ECG and irregular rhythm notification feature and serves a broad consumer health-monitoring audience. It is a broad incumbent competitor that any female-specific ECG player must differentiate against.
• Preventice Solutions (Boston Scientific): Preventice, now part of Boston Scientific, offers BodyGuardian continuous remote cardiac monitoring patches and a clinical monitoring service. It represents a large incumbent in the ambulatory cardiac RPM space that Bloomer Tech would compete with post-clearance.

Emerging players

• Movano Health: Movano is building small-form-factor wearable devices targeting women's health metrics (including cardiovascular and metabolic indicators). It is an emerging player in female-focused connected wearables and shares the women's-health-tech strategic angle with Bloomer Tech.
• Qardio: Qardio makes consumer ECG, blood pressure, and weight monitors with a connected health platform. It is an emerging peer in the connected cardiac-monitoring category with overlapping hardware-plus-app delivery.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/BloomerTech
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bloomertech
• Instagraminstagram.com/bloomer.tech
• Xx.com/bloomertech

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds7 records

Investors8 records

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M&A

Investments

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