{"id":2045,"date":"2018-01-07T21:09:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T21:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2018-05-02T20:42:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T20:42:05","slug":"fitbit-invests-6-million-in-young-glucose-monitoring-startup-sano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/fitbit-invests-6-million-in-young-glucose-monitoring-startup-sano\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitbit Invests $6 Million In Young Glucose-Monitoring Startup Sano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco-based startup, Sano, which was started in 2011, is developing what the company calls a minimally invasive, continuous glucose monitor that users can wear on their skin like a patch.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being around for a few years, Sano has yet to ship a product but that soon may change thanks to a recent investment from Fitbit.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to make fitness devices more valuable when it comes to health monitoring, Fitbit has invested $6 million in Sano, its latest move within the health tech industry.<\/p>\n<p>Last September, Fitbit announced a similar initiative with Dexcom, Inc., with the goal of bringing a continuous glucose-monitoring display to the Fitbit Ionic smartwatch.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Fitbit is working on tackling sleep apnea, an issue plaguing a ton of people across the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco-based startup, Sano, which was started in 2011, is developing what the company calls a minimally invasive, continuous glucose monitor that users can wear on their skin like a patch. Despite being around for a few years, Sano has yet to ship a product but that soon may change thanks to a recent investment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,58],"tags":[861,859,860],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}