Eight Sleep raises $100M to expand it AI-powered sleep tech

Eight Sleep, a New York-based startup founded in 2014, has raised $100 million in a new funding round led by investors including HSG, Valor Equity Partners, Founders Fund, Y Combinator, and notable athletes such as Ferrari F1 driver Charles Leclerc and McLaren CEO Zak Brown. This brings Eight Sleep’s total funding to approximately $260 million. The company specializes in AI-powered sleep technology, offering smart mattresses like its flagship product, the Pod, which tracks sleep stages, heart rate, breathing, and movement, and automatically adjusts temperature, elevation, and firmness to enhance sleep quality. Eight Sleep has generated over $500 million in Pod sales since 2019 and has collected data from more than one billion hours of sleep. The startup is expanding beyond its Pod mattress with Sleep Agent, an AI system that creates thousands of digital twins per user to predict and optimize sleep recovery proactively, moving from reactive tracking to personalized intervention. Eight Sleep’s Autopilot technology continuously adapts