Ultrahuman bets on redesigned smart ring to win back U.S. market after Oura dispute

Ultrahuman connected Friday unveiled a caller astute ringing with longer artillery beingness and a redesigned signifier factor, arsenic the Bengaluru-based wearable shaper seeks to revive its U.S. concern that was disrupted past twelvemonth by a patent quality with rival Oura.

The Ring Pro, Ultrahuman’s third-generation astute ring, offers up to 15 days of artillery beingness — compared with 4 to six days connected the Ring Air — and is priced astatine $479. It volition beryllium disposable for pre-orders globally, excluding the U.S., with shipments opening successful March.

Ultrahuman’s U.S. concern was disrupted successful October 2025 aft the U.S. International Trade Commission — a national bureau that handles commercialized disputes — ruled successful Oura’s favor successful a patent dispute. The ruling prevented the startup from importing caller ringing inventory into the country, though existing retail banal continued to beryllium sold. The stroke was significant. The U.S. accounted for astir 45% of Ultrahuman’s astir 700,000 regular progressive users worldwide, according to co-founder and CEO Mohit Kumar.

In August 2025, Ultrahuman besides filed a abstracted patent infringement case against Oura successful the Delhi High Court, wherever the substance remains pending.

Meanwhile, to enactment astir Oura’s patent, Ultrahuman developed the Ring Pro with a caller design, Kumar told TechCrunch, adding that the instrumentality has been submitted to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection for clearance. U.S. Customs and Border Protection for clearance to corroborate it tin legally beryllium imported into the country.

Despite the U.S. disruption, Ultrahuman is presently operating astatine an annualized gross tally complaint of astir $150 million, Kumar said. It reported $64 million successful operating gross successful the fiscal twelvemonth ended March 2025. The startup remains profitable aft tax, though margins are expected to constrictive owed to litigation costs, tariffs, and the redesign effort, helium added.

Alongside the caller ring, Ultrahuman introduced Jade, a real-time “biointelligence” strategy that analyzes idiosyncratic wellness information crossed its devices and services to make personalized insights and recommendations.

Kumar said Jade is designed to determination beyond retrospective wellness summaries toward real-time, actionable guidance.

Ultrahuman’s Jade AI systemImage Credits:Ultrahuman

“Most AI tools contiguous look backward astatine your data,” helium said. “Jade is built to respond to your wellness successful existent clip and aboveground actions users tin take.”

Kumar said Jade volition beryllium disposable to each Ultrahuman users, including those utilizing the older Ring Air, and does not presently necessitate a subscription.

The Ring Pro features a redesigned heart-rate sensing architecture for improved awesome prime during slumber and a caller dual-core processor to heighten information accuracy and on-device computing. The instrumentality tin store up to 250 days of wellness information and weighs astir 5% to 6% much than the Ring Air, launched successful July 2023 astatine $349.

Ultrahuman has besides introduced a Pro Charger with up to 45 days of artillery beingness to enactment on-the-go charging and alteration faster updates and diagnostics done nonstop lawsuit connectivity. The charger besides supports wireless charging via Qi, the aforesaid modular utilized by astir modern smartphones.

Ultrahuman’s Pro ChargerImage Credits:Ultrahuman

Women relationship for astir 68% of Ultrahuman’s idiosyncratic base, up from astir 65% a twelvemonth earlier, Kumar said, reflecting beardown adoption of the startup’s women’s wellness features.

Ultrahuman besides offers subscription-based services crossed its broader wellness platform, including a coaching and betterment programme called PowerPlugs, the Blood Vision metabolic panel, Ultrahuman Home, and a continuous glucose monitoring offering. Subscriptions lend astir 16% of Ultrahuman’s revenue, portion Blood Vision accounts for astir 5% to 6% of the business, Kumar said.

Ultrahuman’s cardinal maturation markets see the UK, Canada, Australia, and India, Kumar told TechCrunch, with the second contributing astir 8% to 9% of wide gross aft caller investments successful section lawsuit support.

Global astute ringing shipments grew astir 80% year-over-year successful 2025, driven by request for compact wearables with precocious slumber tracking and longer artillery life, said Anshika Jain, elder expert astatine Counterpoint Research. Oura continues to pb with much than two-thirds of the market, portion Ultrahuman holds the 2nd position.

Jain added that aboriginal leaders successful the class volition beryllium defined by sensor accuracy, AI-driven insights, and seamless ecosystem integration.

Separate IDC information showed planetary astute ringing shipments rising astir 30% twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth successful Q3 2025 to astir 1 cardinal units, driven successful portion by request for screenless fittingness trackers, said Navkendar Singh, subordinate vice president astatine IDC India. Ultrahuman captured astir 25% of the marketplace during the period, per IDC.

Founded successful 2019, Ultrahuman has raised astir $55 cardinal to day and counts Alpha Wave Incubation, Blume Ventures, Steadview Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners among its investors.

Ultrahuman, Kumar said, is gathering further accumulation capableness to enactment request for the Ring Pro implicit the coming months.