Somnee Launches Next-Gen AI-Powered Smart Sleep Headband for Faster Sleep, Deeper Recovery, and Optimized Sleep Performance

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BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 16, 2025--

Somnee, the award-winning sleep technology delivering pioneering AI-powered neurotech and software that improves sleep, today launched the highly anticipated second-generation smart sleep headband and revamped service, designed for deeper, faster sleep and optimized performance. Launched in 2022 by renowned sleep expert, Dr. Matt Walker, PhD, and an esteemed group of scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, Somnee is a closed-loop sleep aid that tracks your sleep with lab-grade sensors and uses gentle neurostimulation to help you fall asleep faster and maintain deeper, more restorative sleep. Somnee offers a first-of-its-kind, targeted solution for the nearly one in three adults who suffer from poor sleep.

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Somnee second-generation sleep headband and app

Introducing Second-Generation Smart Sleep Headband and Service

The new Somnee headband builds on the award-winning technology of its first-generation product and now combines clinical-grade overnight sleep tracking using electroencephalogram (EEG+) with Somnee SmartSleep AI for personalized neurostimulation, along with an enhanced app-based service for a more seamless user experience. The headband has been completely redesigned with a comfort-first form factor for all-night wear, helping users fall asleep faster and maintain deeper, more restorative sleep for peak cognitive performance throughout the day:

• Expanded Sleep Tracking – Overnight EEG+ and proprietary AI/ML powers key sleep quality insights and personalized neurostimulation for higher quality sleep support.
• Pillowy-Soft Comfort – Reimagined with a soft, pillowy design that adapts to you for all-night comfort, no matter how you like to sleep.
• Bone Conduction Speakers – Enjoy an intimate, immersive, comfortable listening experience that only you can hear, with meditative audio curated by Dr. Matt Walker.
• Nap & DriftBack Sessions – Support for short, restorative naps, day-time sleepers, and middle-of-the-night wakeups, designed to help you fall back asleep in half the time. Now available phone-free.
• Phone-Free Experience – Launch your sessions entirely phone-free with the click of a button, reducing screen time and blue light exposure before bed.
• Reengineered Companion App – Enjoy a streamlined setup, crisp personalization tracking, lab-grade reports, and actionable insights tailored to each user’s sleep patterns.
• Dr. Matt Walker’s Sleep Journal – Easily log and track key sleep health indicators with the same qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods Dr. Walker uses in sleep studies.
• Somnee SmartSleep AI – Next-gen algorithms and proprietary AI enable personalized brain mapping, real-time monitoring, and AI-powered interventions.
• Somnee API – For select researchers, partners, enterprises, trainers, and clinicians in 2026.

“The second-generation Somnee is a revolutionary leap forward in closed-loop sleep technology. We took everything we learned—from our passionate Gen 1 community and research pilot with the NBA—and poured it into creating the most advanced, AI-powered sleep wearable on the market. One that uses clinical-grade sensors with a closed-loop approach that actively adapts and improves sleep,” said CEO Tim Rosa. “This isn’t just an upgrade—it’s a whole new standard for how we approach sleep. Whether you’re a high performer, a wellness-minded professional, or someone battling sleepless nights, Somnee is here to change the way you rest, recover, and live… so you can sleep more, to live more.”

Field-Tested with Athletes & Backed by the NBA as the Latest Equity Partner

Somnee has been testing this second-generation sleep headband at the highest levels of sport—from elite tri-athletes to select NBA teams and their performance training staff. Initial results from the company’s participation in the 2025 NBA Launchpad program, which advances next-generation technologies for league-wide health and performance, have been positive. Building on this momentum, the NBA has not only validated Somnee’s potential but also joined as an equity partner with Khosla Ventures, TIME Ventures, and others. Somnee is establishing itself as the go-to solution for high-performance sleep and will be available through select partners, including the Equinox Hotel, and through its partnership with Superpower to deliver the world’s first "closed-loop" sleep optimization program that combines blood biomarker insights with Somnee’s neurotechnology sleep aid.

“Decades of research have shown that sleep is the foundation of brain function, emotional stability, immune health, and longevity," said Dr. Matt Walker, PhD, Somnee co-founder and sleep scientist. "With the new Somnee, we've translated the latest neuroscience into wearable technology that doesn't just track sleep—it actively restores it. I see this as a meaningful, non-pharmacological step toward scalable technology that improves sleep quality. Our sincere hope is to help address the global sleep-loss epidemic.”

How Somnee Works

Somnee is the first at-home ‘electroceutical’ for sleep, using non-invasive, personalized electrical stimulation to improve sleep quality. Covered by 24 patents, its approach uses transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), personalized to each user’s brainwaves, to guide the brain into its natural sleep rhythm. In a 2023 peer-reviewed study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, personalized tACS increased sleep duration by 19 minutes and reduced time to fall asleep by 6 minutes compared to fixed-frequency stimulation.

Somnee is proven to help users fall asleep twice as fast, stay asleep approximately 30 minutes longer, and reduce tossing and turning by a third. It outperforms melatonin by four times, cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-i) by two times, and sleeping pills like Ambien by 1.5 times.

The second-generation Somnee smart headband is available now for purchase at somneesleep.com.

About Somnee

Somnee is on a mission to transform sleep and neurological health while fundamentally improving the human experience. The Somnee Smart Sleep headband combines clinically validated neuroscience and award-winning AI-powered neurotechnology to enhance the brain’s optimal sleep signals naturally and has been proven to help people fall asleep faster, reduce nighttime awakenings, and improve overall deep sleep quality. Somnee won Fast Company’s “Next Big Thing in Tech” award, and multiple sleep innovation and tech awards from GQ, Men's Journal, and Esquire for Best Sleep Technology. Additionally, Somnee has been included in the prestigious 2025 NBA Launchpad and is the recommended sleep aid by over 1,500 clinicians.

Somnee was co-founded by world-leading neuroscientists, including Dr. Matthew Walker, Ph.D., author of New York Times bestseller Why We Sleep and Director of UC Berkeley’s Center of Human Sleep Science; Dr. Robert Knight, M.D., Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at UC Berkeley; and ex-Fitbit executive, Tim Rosa, who leads as CEO. The Somnee team has spent decades pioneering sleep research, brain health, wearables, and personalized non-invasive neurostimulation applications. Sleep is one of the most critical functions of the brain, and Somnee’s deep understanding of the neuroscience of sleep uniquely positions it to help solve the sleep health epidemic. For more information, visit: somneesleep.com, subscribe to the Somnee newsletter, follow Somnee on IG @somneesleep or LinkedIn.

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