Best Wearable Technology Companies in Italy
The 73 best Wearable Technology companies in Italy in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Empatica.
- Wearable Technology Market to Reach USD 466.5 Billion by 2032
- Electronic Wearable Market
- Wearable technology market set to double by 2030 as AI and health trac
Our analysis of 50 Wearable Technology companies
$7.0b in tracked funding; 93% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Wearable Technology companies in Italy
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Empatica Developer of a wrist band to monitor physiological signals 64Tech top 23%Product top 34%Funding top 35%Growth top 35% All 11 signals ▾Techtop 23% Producttop 34% Fundingtop 35% Growthtop 35% Talenttop 38% Markettop 42% Moatbottom 44% Innovationbottom 43% Globalbottom 43% Customersbottom 41% Patentsbottom 38% Tech: 49 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 Product: 5 published apps (41.5k installs) · Company stage: Series B rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $31M | 43 mo ago | 133 | Melih Sadi Founder & Owner | SanityApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+23 | 2 patents Electrodermal activity sensing devices with current‑compensation circuitry | 1 job opening |
| 2 | Angiodroid Provider of CO2 injector for diagnostic and interventional peripheral angiography 40AI top 15%Patents top 43%Moat top 45%Product top 46% All 10 signals ▾AItop 15% Patentstop 43% Moattop 45% Producttop 46% Fundingtop 50% Techtop 50% Innovationbottom 49% Marketbottom 40% Globalbottom 40% Growthbottom 35% AI: Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) Patents: 27 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 11 filings since 2022 vs 16 in 2017-21 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 40/100 | $10M | 39 mo ago | 36 | — | HubSpot CMS HubEnvoyBootstrap+19 | 27 patents Gaseous contrast agent delivery and image enhancement for angiographic medical imaging | — |
| 3 | ComfTech Provider of smart garments for physiological monitoring | $8M | 94 mo ago | 10 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+19 | 26 patents Wearable sensorized textiles for continuous vital‑sign monitoring, especially neonatal respiration. | — |
| 4 | Kippy Internet first brand offering tracking wearable for cats and dogs | $3M | 42 mo ago | 15 | — | Cart FunctionalitySentryPHP+30 | — | — |
| 5 | Wearable Robotics Exoskeletons and robotic rehabilitation devices 35Growth top 28%Moat top 38%Innovation top 44%Funding top 47% All 9 signals ▾Growthtop 28% Moattop 38% Innovationtop 44% Fundingtop 47% Patentstop 47% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 36% Techbottom 31% Marketbottom 23% Growth: Web rank 50,000,000 → 10,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 4/10 · IP moat: 6 patents rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 35/100 | $3M | 2 mo ago | 11 | Lucia Lencioni CEO & Managing Director | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | 6 patents Mechanical transmission mechanisms for wearable robotic exoskeletons | — |
| 6 | IntendiMe Sensor-based hearing aids | $3M | 72 mo ago | 10 | Antonio Pinese Co-Founder & CTO | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | 4 patents Audible alarm signaling devices and related alert notification technology. | — |
| 7 | Biotechware Telemedicine integrated platform for remote cardiac monitoring | $2M | 104 mo ago | 18 | Alessandro Sappia Founder | — | 3 patents Portable ECG devices for real-time cardiac monitoring and diagnostics | — |
| 8 | Youbiquo Smart glasses for enterprise workers | $2M | 65 mo ago | 23 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | — | — |
| 9 | GlassUp AR based smart glasses that displays notifications from smartphones | $1M | 81 mo ago | 3 | Francesco Giartosio Co-Founder & CEO | — | 8 patents Medical augmented reality head‑mounted displays and opto‑electronic posture‑sensing systems | — |
| 10 | WinMedical Wearable device for remote patient monitoring applications | $1M | 175 mo ago | 33 | — | — | 22 patents Wireless medical sensor/actuator networks and radiopharmaceutical patient monitoring devices | — |
| 11 | XMetrics Activity tracker for swimmers | $1M | 140 mo ago | — | Davide MacAgnano Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 12 | Horus Technology Wearable device for the blind and visually impaired | $900K | 125 mo ago | 10 | — | — | 7 patents Acoustic noise detection systems and wearable stereoscopic vision devices for user assistance | — |
| 13 | Domethics Provider of smart watches for health tracking | $780K | 25 mo ago | 6 | Samuele Rocca CEO | WordPress Block EditorCart FunctionalityWooCommerce+11 | — | — |
| 14 | MYagonism Basketball analytics platform | $231K | 135 mo ago | 11 | Paolo Raineri Co-Founder & CEO | PHPAnimate.cssBootstrap+6 | — | — |
| 15 | Morecognition Inc Provider of AI-based smart devices and software solutions for people with motor impairment | $168K | 104 mo ago | 3 | — | — | 3 patents EMG-based muscle activation detection and identification for human‑machine interface | 1 job opening |
| 16 | LiMiX Developer of a wearable device providing communication assistance for dumb | $124K | 94 mo ago | — | Dario Corona CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | 3 patents Real-time sign language motion capture to speech/text conversion software | — |
| 17 | Mr Doc App to detect disease conditions | $111K | 76 mo ago | 6 | Fabio Rebecchi CEO and Principal Data Scientist | — | — | — |
Top 12 Wearable Technology companies in Italy
#1
Series A · Pisa, Tuscany · founded 2014 · 11 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Exoskeletons and robotic rehabilitation devices. The major offerings from the firm are ALEx and Track-Hold. ALEx is a robotic exoskeleton and helps in movement and upper limb rehabilitation. Trackhold is a device for upper limb rehabilitation and passive training with support of gravity in special movements.
- Apr 2026Series A$5.8M
- Apr 2023Seed$2.7M
- Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$278.3K
#2
Series B · Milano, Umbria · founded 2011 · 133 employees$30.9Mraised▾
Developer of a wristband to monitor physiological signals. The E4 wristband for researchers measures blood volume pulse, electrodermal activity, skin temperature and activity. It also offers Embrace, a wristband to monitor physiological stress, arousal, sleep and physical activity which provides seizure monitoring.
- Nov 2022Series B—
- Aug 2022Series B$25.9M
- Apr 2021Grant (prize money)$353.1K
- Mar 2021Grant (prize money)$115.9K
#3
Series B · Bologna, Emilia Romagna · founded 2013 · 36 employees$10.2Mraised▾
Provider of CO2 injector for diagnostic and interventional peripheral angiography. It offers an automatic injection system for carbon dioxide angiography. Its products include carbon dioxide injector that is used as a contrast medium for pheriperal interventional angiography; and a single use kit, which is composed of French catheters and a custom connection line.
- Feb 2023Series B$7.4M
- Jul 2015Series A$1.6M
- Oct 2013Seed$1.2M
#4
Seed · Turin, Piedmont · founded 2014 · 6 employees$779.9Kraised▾
Provider of smart watches for health tracking. It monitors the heart health through ECG and PPG, heart and respiratory rate, blood oxygen and body temperature of users and sends alerts if there is any abnormality. It also offers a telemedicine consultation service on its marketplace platform.
- May 2024Seed$779.9K
#5
Acquired · Milan, Lombardy · founded 2013 · 15 employees$2.8Mraised▾
Internet first brand offering tracking wearable for cats and dogs. The device can be attached to the collar of the pet tracks the location using GPS technology and communicates using the cellular network. The device also tracks fitness metrics like walking, rest, and sleep time. The companion app allows the user to track the pet's location, activity, history, create virtual boundaries, and set goals.
- Dec 2022Series A$2.8M
- Dec 2013Seed$13.7K
#6
Series A · Monza, Lombardy · founded 2010 · 10 employees$8.1Mraised▾
Provider of smart garments for physiological monitoring. The smart garments are composed of textile sensors capable of monitoring and collecting biometric data and parameters of the wearer. The app allows users to view the data collected by the textile and electronic component.
- Aug 2018Series A$8.1M
- Nov 2015Grant (prize money)$52.9K
- May 2015Grant (prize money)$56K
#7
Funding Raised · Cava De Tirreni, Campania · founded 2013 · 23 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Youbiquo has developed Talens, smart glasses in Augmented Reality for the enterprise market, it’s created to assist and support technicians, maintenance workers and professionals and make their operations more effective, precise and secure. Custom applications can be built on application libraries of UB-SDK, the software kit specially created to facilitate the planning and development of applications on Smart Glasses. It support functions like like listening to instructions, reading documentation, calling technical support, sharing a task in video conference, and inquiry company repositories.
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$865.9K
- Sep 2020Grant (prize money)$667.7K
- Sep 2019Grant (prize money)$54.7K
- May 2019Grant (prize money)$56K
#8
Seed · Cagliari, Sardinia · founded 2014 · 10 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Sensor-based hearing aids. It develops a product called KitMe that uses sensors applied on sound sources to offer real-time notifications for individuals with hearing problems.
- May 2020Seed$2.5M
- Feb 2019Seed—
#9
Series A · Turin, Piedmont · founded 2011 · 18 employees$2.4Mraised▾
Biotechware is a business venture which conceived a telemedicine integrated platform for remote cardiac monitoring, aimed at pharmacies. Biotechware solution permits to record a professional grade ECG directly at the pharmacy with a device. The record is then remotely reviewed and reported by a qualified cardiologist and made available to the patient through a secure website. CardioPad Pro is that portable device for professional recording remote electrocardiograms, with cloud platform to store, archive and process data more quickly.
- Oct 2017Series A$2.4M
#10
Funding Raised · Modena, Emilia Romagna · founded 2012 · 3 employees$1.2Mraised▾
GlassUp develops augmented reality-based smart glasses that superimposes message from the smartphone. The product features an integrated thermographic camera, a video camera, a microphone for voice control, touch controls on the frame, accelerometer, gyroscope, WiFi, Bluetooth connectivity etc. Claims to feature a FOV of 22- degrees. Notifications from the smartphone such as emails, text messages, Facebook updates, tweets, RSS, calendar events, incoming calls etc. are sent using Bluetooth. The company offers F4, industrial version of the AR glasses having use cases in teleservice, field training, logistics, machine maintenance, quality check etc. Additionally, provides an SDK compatible with Linux, Android, iOS, Python, Java, Ruby, Swift etc. It also provides service such as assistance & training, integration & software development, based on the clients' requirements. The company had also launched a campaign on IndieGoGo raising an amount of $127,738.
- Aug 2019Grant (prize money)$1.2M
#11
Deadpooled · Milano, Umbria · founded 2014$1.1Mraised▾
Xmetrics has developed advanced activity trackers for swimmers. Their unit consists of a head worn device positioned of the back of the device tracking activity utilizing a 9 axis sensor and ear plugs through which real time feed back about strokes is provided to the swimmer. Additionally movement are analyzed using analytics engine shareable with others.
- Oct 2014Seed$1.1M
#12
Seed · Cascina, Tuscany · founded 2009 · 33 employees$1.1Mraised▾
WinMedical offers a platform for remote patient monitoring applications. The solution consists of a small class IIA CE marked wearable sensor unit WinPack that can monitor body vitals like blood pressure, heart rate, respiration rate, SpO2, and body temperature. Different sensor modules can be added or removed from the WinPack depending on the requirement. WinPack can communicate using the WiFi or Bluetooth. The company also provides supporting software called Early Evaluation Center for analysing the data collected by the WinPack. The software is available for hospital and home applications.
- Nov 2011Seed$1.1M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Wearable Technology coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Wearable Health Tech is moving in Italy
A read on the academic research around Wearable Health Tech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 401 Italy-affiliated papers.
- University of Padua119
- Magna Graecia University18
- Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico17
- University of Pavia16
- Ministry of Health16
- Continuous glucose monitoring8→13
- Diabetes mellitus4→7
- Glycemic1→4
- Type 1 diabetes3→4
- Diabetes mellitus30→71
- Continuous glucose monitoring40→81
- Glycemic11→45
- Type 2 diabetes5→24
- Type 1 diabetes14→24
- Continuous glucose monitoring17→34
- Type 1 diabetes3→20
- Glycemic3→10
- Diabetes mellitus19→25
- Intensive care medicine2→7
Where wearable health is researched across Italy
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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