The Magazine for Sleep Professionals
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Ognomy Sleep, announced the closing of a $20 million Series A financing round led by Catalyst Investors, with participation from Blue Heron Capital. The round also included new and follow-on investments from Impellent Ventures, LaunchNY, Excell and Upstate Biotech Ventures, University of Buffalo, and strategic partners who have supported the company’s […]
Here’s an uncomfortable exercise. Tomorrow morning, walk through your sleep lab or practice and ask one question: “Has anyone here ever used ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or another AI tool for work?” If the answer is no, chances are someone isn’t being completely honest. Artificial intelligence has become part of the […]
Wesper unveiled its multi-tier sleep diagnostic ecosystem at SLEEP 2026, the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. The ecosystem brings two purpose-built diagnostic pathways, Wesper Lab and Wesper Lite, onto one platform, one patient record, and one interpretation pipeline, so physicians can match the right test to the right […]
Sleep.ai announced findings from a peer-reviewed study led by Washington State University, in collaboration with the University of Washington, exploring sleep patterns in people with chronic insomnia. It is the longest known objective, real-world characterization of objective sleep in chronic insomnia. Published in JMIR Formative Research, the study tracked 112 adults […]
University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have developed a bold new approach to drug development and discovery that could dramatically accelerate the creation of new medicines. UVA’s Nikolay V. Dokholyan, PhD, and colleagues have developed a suite of artificial intelligence-powered tools, called YuelDesign, YuelPocket and YuelBond, that work together to […]
NightWare, Inc. and Exit 156 Capital announced a strategic investment by Exit 156 in NightWare’s ongoing Series C financing. NightWare is the maker of the only FDA-cleared prescription digital therapeutic indicated for nightmare disorder in adults with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The partnership unites a Minneapolis-based growth-stage digital health company […]
Mount Sinai researchers have created an analytic tool using machine learning that can predict cardiovascular disease risk in millions of patients with obstructive sleep apnea, a serious sleep disorder, according to findings recently published in Communications Medicine. The team said their study is the first to provide estimates of whether […]
Even if you’re not one to make New Year’s resolutions, the start of a new year naturally invites reflection on what worked well last year, what needs to change, and what to leave behind. With that spirit of looking ahead in mind, SleepWorld Magazine conducted its inaugural Reader Tech Survey […]
AI software designed to help diagnose sleep apnea in children has achieved high accuracy in an NHS trial, with the findings independently reviewed by clinical specialists. Glasgow company Seluna tested its autoscoring and sleep staging software on 500 retrospective sleep studies from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s Royal Hospital for […]
Sunrise Group, a pioneer in medical device innovation and sleep care, today announced a new peer-reviewed study in Nature Communications Medicine. Sunrise developed the only home sleep test with respiratory effort measurement that has been validated against esophageal pressure, the reference standard. The study reveals that REMOV, the Sunrise-specific marker […]
