The pioneering closed-loop smart sleep headband worked in lockstep with co-founder and sleep expert, Dr. Matt Walker, on the revamped Somnee app experience as company advances in new features and data innovation

Somnee, the company behind the smart sleep headband that improves sleep and outperforms melatonin, CBTi, and sleeping pills, today announced its revamped app experience and new features that provide a novel dimension of sleep data to wearable users. Enhancements include new onboarding, brain mapping, a sleep journal, sleep readiness scores and measurements, and sleep hygiene tools. Designed by Somnee’s renowned neuroscientists, these features empower users to better understand and improve their sleep quality.

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The Somnee Smart Sleep Headband accurately and safely maps unique brainwave patterns using lab-grade EEG+ sensors, then personalizes a gentle 15-minute neurostimulation session to nudge the brain into its natural, ideal sleep state. Somnee’s mobile app overhaul is an early, key initiative led by newly appointed CEO and consumer electronics veteran, Tim Rosa, to better align the user experience (UX) with the evolution of the company and today’s consumer.

“Sleep deprivation – which trickles into every aspect of our physiology and underpins all chronic disease – is the new smoking,” said Rosa, former Fitbit CMO. “To get regular sleep that’s restful and restorative, you need to understand how your daily behaviors impact your sleep quality, which requires quantitative and qualitative data. With insight into wearable metrics and how you feel at that time, you’ll have greater success adjusting your sleep hygiene routine. With Somnee’s enhanced offerings, we’re helping people achieve their optimal night’s sleep and understand the factors that support it.”

The introduction of the new Somnee Sleep Journal was born from the great mind of Dr. Matt Walker, Ph.D., Somnee Co-Founder & Chief Sleep Advisor and renowned sleep researcher. The journal allows users to better monitor sleep patterns and habits over time by answering simple, yet powerful, daily questions about sleep outcomes and pre-sleep habits. For example, did they wake up feeling refreshed, experience anxiety, or endure sleep interruptions throughout the night. By layering the Sleep Journal with high fidelity, upstream EEG+ readouts, Somnee can map users’ headband sessions and daily activities to sleep readiness and outcomes, establishing a new frontier for consumer sleep wearable data that combines objective and subjective data sets.

"Sleep is incredibly nuanced and personal. While sleep trackers do a good job of accurately determining how much time you are awake and asleep, the results do not always match what we ourselves feel in terms of being refreshed and restored the next day," said Dr. Matt Walker. "A nice complement to sleep trackers is adding a simple personalized question, which is the following: on a three-point scale, how restored do I feel when I wake up each morning: 1) Very restored, 2) Somewhat restored, and 3) Not at all restored. All of which is to say, good sleep is about the combination of objective sleep measures combined with your own subjective sense of how refreshed and restored you feel. Both are important and are needed for you to answer: 'Am I getting good sleep?'"

Full enhancements to the Somnee app and UX include:

• Brain Mapping – use advanced EEG+ sensors to map your unique brain rhythms
• Personalized Neurostimulation – deliver stimulation treatments based on your brain state
• Sleep Readiness Scores – evaluate how well brain is primed for deep, restorative sleep
• Session Reports – showcases improvements for sleep onset, maintenance, and depth
• Sleep Journaling – track goals tied to anxiety, health, athletic performance, and sleep
• Progress tracking – see visual progress of Somnee’s brain mapping and personalization

To learn more about Somnee, please visit: SomneeSleep.com

About Somnee

Somnee is on a mission to help everyone sleep better through personalized neuroscience. Built upon decades of research and development, Somnee is the first smart sleep headband to help your brain naturally achieve a longer, higher-quality night’s sleep. The Somnee founding research team includes world-leading neuroscientists Dr. Matthew Walker, Ph.D., author of NY Times bestseller Why We Sleep and Director of UC Berkeley’s Center of Human Sleep Science; Dr. Robert Knight, M.D., Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at UC Berkeley; Dr. Rich Ivry, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at UC Berkeley; and founder, Dr. Ram Gurumoorthy, Ph.D., former Chief Science and Technology Officer at Nielsen-acquired NeuroFocus Inc. Khosla Ventures led Somnee’s seed round to pioneer the next frontier of sleep health and other neurological health disorders. To learn more about Somnee, visit: www.somneesleep.com.

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