Ultrahuman, a Bengaluru-based health technology company known for its smart rings, has signed a two-year memorandum of understanding with the Abu Dhabi Public Health Center to develop and validate a biological-age model. The company announced the agreement on Monday. The model is intended to eventually be made available to people across the United Arab Emirates.
The biological-age model will combine clinical biomarkers with data collected from wearable devices. Its purpose is to estimate how quickly an individual is aging and to identify factors that may be accelerating or slowing that process, including sleep, activity, cardiovascular health, and metabolism. Ultrahuman said the model is being designed to be wearable-agnostic, so data from rings, wrist-worn devices, straps, and patches can feed into the system alongside clinical biomarkers. Individuals will eventually be able to access their health age through government digital-health platforms including TAMM and Sahatna.
The partnership is Ultrahuman's first step toward deploying a health algorithm at a national scale, according to the company. CEO Mohit Kumar said working with a government lets Ultrahuman apply its algorithms to a far broader population than its own customer base. Ultrahuman has sold around 800,000 smart rings globally so far. Kumar said the startup's typical users are between 25 and 43 years old, and that deploying the model across the UAE would expose it to a much broader range of age groups.
Kumar said the underlying model was developed using Ultrahuman's existing data, combining users' chronological ages with wearable signals and, for some users, blood-test markers. That allows the startup to track how health markers typically change with age and identify deviations from those patterns. He stressed that the model will not be trained on data from the UAE, describing the plan as deploying an algorithm on UAE data, and said Ultrahuman will not have access to personally identifiable information through the program.
The UAE is already among Ultrahuman's 10 largest markets and accounts for about 4% to 5% of its overall revenue, Kumar said. The startup has operated in the market for nearly five years and sees about 25% higher retention there compared with its other markets. Kumar said the broader rollout will happen in phases but did not provide a timeline.
Ultrahuman is not the only smart-ring maker working with Abu Dhabi on preventive health. In May, the Department of Health - Abu Dhabi announced a partnership with Ultrahuman rival Oura to combine the company's wearable data with the emirate's longitudinal health data, initially focusing on women's health and cardiometabolic risk. Kumar said Ultrahuman is not aware of another company working with Abu Dhabi authorities on the health age model specifically. He acknowledged that the government works with multiple health-tech companies but declined to comment on the scope of Oura's work with Abu Dhabi.
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