SeaX leads $1.6M round for cardiac wearable startup Skribe
US startup Skribe has raised $1.6 million in a round led by SeaX for Aurora, an AI-assisted adhesive patch that estimates left ventricular ejection fraction.
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giftdetect· the right gift in minutesSeaX has led a $1.6 million funding round for Skribe, a US startup building a wearable system for cardiac monitoring. The money backs the company's Aurora platform, which pairs a multi-sensor adhesive patch with AI analysis.
Aurora's goal is to estimate left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), a key measure of how much blood the heart's main pumping chamber ejects with each beat. The patch collects signals from several sensors, and the AI software analyses that data to produce the estimate.
Why it matters
LVEF is central to assessing heart function and is widely used in diagnosing and tracking heart failure. It is typically measured with imaging. A patch-based approach that delivers an estimate from a wearable points toward simpler, less equipment-heavy ways of checking cardiac function outside specialised settings.
The round is small by medtech standards, and the announcement offers no detail on regulatory status, clinical validation or commercial timelines. Those will be the key markers to watch, since any device that estimates a clinical metric will need to show its accuracy against established methods.
What comes next
Skribe has not disclosed in the material available how it will allocate the new capital. For SeaX, the investment adds a cardiac-monitoring bet built on the combination of sensor hardware and machine learning, an area where a growing number of startups are competing to move diagnostics from clinics to the body.
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