{{ story.headline }}

{{ story.subheading }}

By {{ story.authorName }}, {{ story.twitterHandle }}

{{ story.timestamp }}

Eight years since launch, Valencell has its biometric-tracking sensors in wearable devices around the world. Now with $13 million in venture capital funding—$7 million of that raised in June—the company plans more growth into the military, digital health and gaming sectors. And its quickly becoming an expert in
sensors for 'hearables', or devices that measure heart rate and other biometrics in the ear. Here's a recent VentureBeat story on the trend.

Valencell co-founder and president Steven LeBoeuf recently shared his vision for the the fast-growing company's future at the 2014 CED Tech Venture Conference.

Credit: Ryan Timms

Laura Baverman

Editor

Laura Baverman manages the day-to-day at ExitEvent, writing and editing stories, lining up contributors and representing us in the community. She also works as a USA Today columnist, writing the Startups and Entrepreneurs column every other week in print and online. Laura has spent a decade in journalism, most of those years as a business reporter in her hometown Cincinnati. Her Ohio roots run deep, but she's learning to love the South. Especially sun, all months of the year.

RELATED STORIES

{{ rs.headline }}

{{ fs.headline }}

{{ fs.timestamp }}