Zephyr Technology

What Zephyr Technology does

Zephyr Technology, founded in 2003 and headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland, is a privately held manufacturer of wearable heart rate monitors, remote physiological monitoring devices, and wireless telehealth systems. Its product set addresses use cases that require continuous, real-time capture of biometric signals — typically heart rate, respiration, and motion — transmitted wirelessly to a receiver or cloud endpoint. The business model is consistent with a hardware-led medical/wellness device company selling or licensing monitoring modules to institutional buyers (e.g., defense, first responder, athletic, or clinical programs) rather than a direct-to-consumer software platform; pricing mechanics, channel mix, and ARR are not disclosed in the available sources.

The company has raised approximately $13.3 million across four disclosed funding events between 2006 and 2013, with backers including 3M New Ventures, Alsop Louie Partners, and Motorola Solutions Venture Capital (lead investor in the 2009 round). The last funding round was in May 2013, after which no further capital formation, product launch, or strategic transaction is documented in the input. Employee count is reported in the 11–50 band. The available source material — primarily a MarkMonitor domain-protection page for zephyr-technology.com — does not disclose revenue, customer logos, regulatory clearances, or the active status of current operations, leaving substantive commercial detail unverifiable.

Name

Zephyr Technology

Website

https://zephyr-technology.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Zephyr Technology is an Annapolis-based manufacturer, founded in 2003, of wearable heart rate monitors, remote physiological monitoring devices, and wireless telehealth systems serving institutional users in defense, first-responder, athletic, and clinical settings.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Wearable Health Monitoring Devices

NAICS

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

SIC

Electromedical & Electrotherapeutic Apparatus (3845), Instruments For Meas & Testing Of Electricity & Elec Signals (3825)

akta.pro primary industry

Home Patient Monitoring & Telehealth Devices (Vitals, Fall Detection, PERS) (HSABAKAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Pulse Oximeters & Respiratory Monitors (Consumer) (CRACAQAF), Smart Fitness & Training Devices (Connected Fitness Sensors, Smart Jump Ropes, etc.) (CRACAQAH)

Keywords

• Wearable health monitors
• Telehealth monitoring systems
• Remote patient monitoring
• Heart rate sensors
• Physiological monitoring devices

Headquarters

HQ city

Annapolis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Zephyr Technology manufactures wearable heart rate monitors, remote physiological monitoring devices, and wireless tele-health systems. Its products capture and wirelessly transmit vital sign and biometric data for use by healthcare providers, defense/emergency response organizations, sports performance programs, and telehealth applications. The company has been operating in the wearable biosensor and remote patient monitoring space since 2003.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Heart Rate Monitors

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Emerging players

• Empatica: Empatica develops medical-grade wearable sensors and digital biomarkers for neurological and physiological monitoring, with FDA-cleared epilepsy detection. It is comparable as a small, focused wearable health-monitoring company pursuing both clinical and consumer applications, similar in scale and philosophy to Zephyr.
• Hexoskin (Carré Technologies): Hexoskin makes smart garments with embedded physiological sensors for heart rate, breathing, and activity monitoring, serving research, defense, and health applications. It is comparable to Zephyr as a niche wearable physiological-monitoring specialist targeting both clinical research and human-performance end markets.
• Wahoo Fitness: Wahoo makes connected fitness sensors including heart rate monitors and bike/training devices. It overlaps with Zephyr's historical fitness/athletic heart rate monitoring product line and shares a similar small-company hardware DNA.

Broad incumbents

• Garmin: Garmin is a broad incumbent in fitness and outdoor wearables with integrated heart rate, pulse oximetry, and physiological tracking. It is comparable as a scaled competitor in the consumer physiological-monitoring category where Zephyr's heritage lies.
• Medtronic: Medtronic is a major player in implantable cardiac monitoring (Reveal LINQ) and broader remote patient monitoring. It is comparable as a clinical-channel incumbent whose physiological-monitoring franchise competes with smaller specialists like Zephyr for hospital and ambulatory contracts.
• Whoop: Whoop produces a subscription-based wearable focused on continuous heart rate, HRV, sleep, and recovery analytics. It overlaps with Zephyr's wearable physiological-monitoring positioning on the consumer/athletic end of the market.
• Philips (BioTelemetry / Patient Monitoring): Philips acquired BioTelemetry and operates one of the largest remote cardiac and patient monitoring service businesses globally. It represents the dominant incumbent in remote tele-health monitoring, the same end-market Zephyr targets.

Direct peers

• Polar Electro: Polar is a long-established manufacturer of heart rate monitors and sports/physiological wearables. It is one of the closest direct comparables to Zephyr's original chest-strap and wearable HRM product line, serving overlapping athletic and clinical-research segments.
• AliveCor: AliveCor (KardiaMobile) produces consumer and clinical-grade ECG/heart rhythm monitoring devices paired with AI interpretation. It competes directly with Zephyr in the portable cardiac-monitoring category spanning consumer to clinical channels.
• iRhythm Technologies: iRhythm makes the Zio patch, a wearable cardiac rhythm monitor used for ambulatory ECG and arrhythmia detection. It is a direct peer in remote physiological cardiac monitoring, particularly relevant to Zephyr's clinical tele-health positioning.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ZephyrAnywhere
• Facebookfacebook.com/ZephyrTechnology
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/150492

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors4 records

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M&A

Investments

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