Comcast Ventures was among the participants in the first funding round closed by sleep tracker developer Eight.

US-based smart bedding startup Eight closed a $6m seed round on Wednesday featuring Comcast Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of media and cable service Comcast.

Other investors in the round included Y Combinator, Yunqi Partners, Azure Capital, Cota Capital, Vast Ventures, Stanford University, Galvanize Ventures and angel investor Jared Friedman.

Eight has developed a smart mattress cover that works as a sleep tracker, recording data about sleep patterns and bedroom environment and linking with other connected devices to regulate environmental…

Subscribe to go deeper

GCV subscribers get access to all our proprietary data and deep-dive articles, as well as the global directory of CVC investors.



Not sure if you have a subscription?