Ōura, the parent company of the Oura Ring fitness wearable, has acquired Sparta Science, a performance analytics company.

Sparta’s Trinsic software “translates movement data into health insights, including strength, injury risk, and recovery status.” By integrating the technology, Oura expects the insights will add a “further level of support for its corporate wellness, healthcare, and government clients.”

“Our enterprise offering supports organizations of all kinds to solve complex health and human performance challenges at scale, such as optimizing sailors’ schedules for maximum rest and recovery and early detection of illness,” said Dorothy Kilroy, Ōura chief commercial officer. “Through our work over the years with partners like the Department of Defense, we’ve proved that Oura Ring is uniquely positioned to support population health remotely and at scale. The addition of Sparta Science and its Trinsic data platform will help us meet the specific needs of our partners.”

Both public, private and the military use Ōura’s enterprise data management platform, Oura Teams, to monitor group- and individual-level metrics to identify “anomalies and patterns within group data, and offer functionality to download data for those participants.”

Adding Trinsic to Oura Teams will reportedly enable the platform to

  • Combine insights from the Oura Ring with third-party data sources in a flexible, scalable platform;
  • Enable customizable solutions to integrate with a customer’s existing systems or create customized dashboards and workflows directly;
  • Provide insights to optimize scheduling, resource allocation, return-to-duty processes, and fitness and safety measures; and
  • Continue supporting HIPAA compliance and adherence to government and enterprise information security frameworks.

In addition to adapting the Trinsic data platform to create a new Oura Teams offering, several members of the Sparta Science team will join Ōura across engineering, data science, solutions architecture, and product development.

“Trinsic is a powerful data platform that can address many of the advanced needs of Ōura’s customers,” said Greg Olsen, Sparta Software’s chief technology officer. “By joining forces, we can create a more comprehensive and scalable solution. Our technology will enable Oura Teams to incorporate a wider range of data sources, perform more precise individual and population-level analyses, and ultimately better serve unique customer requirements.”

This marks Ōura’s third acquisition in two years, following Proxy, a digital identity signal platform, in May 2023 and Veri, a metabolic health company, in September 2024.

Trinsic will continue to incorporate and compile data from Sparta Science’s “force plates” and those from third parties. Ōura will continue to support Sparta’s legacy force plate business until the end of the calendar year. Ōura will cease production and distribution of force plates at the end of 2024. Existing Sparta Science customers will be supported individually and on a contract basis.

Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions.

Image courtesy Sparta Science