Hexoskin
Hexoskin (Carré Technologies Inc.) makes washable smart shirts with textile sensors that record ECG and breathing, plus a pocket recorder for movement. The shirts are sold to individuals and coaches. Most of the business comes from research and clinical customers: academic labs, biopharma trials and CROs, defense, and space agencies. The company makes money from hardware sales (shirt kits online, and quotes for the Astroskin and Hexoskin Medical System), software licences for its OneSuite tools sold on a quote basis, and data-science services.
4 devices · 1 clearance on file · researched 2026-11-08
- Headquarters
- Montréal, Canada
- Founded
- 2006
- Ownership
- Private
- Website
- hexoskin.com
- Focus
- medical, sports performance, sleep, heart health, fitness
- Membership
- Hexoskin OneSuite (OneApp, OneSync, OneView, OneAPI, OneSDK) · optional ↗Per the software page, 'Everything comes with Hexoskin: Hexoskin OneApp on your phone, Hexoskin OneSync on your computer, and your Hexoskin Dashboard on the web.' The study tools (OneView), the API and the Android SDK are licensed by quote ('Request a License Quote'). No public prices.
- Leadership
- Pierre-Alexandre Fournier Co-founder and CEO ↗
Jean-François Roy Co-founder and CTO (as of the Sept 2019 company post) ↗ - Last round
- equity (company calls it an 'additional funding round') · 2024-08 · $4.2M
- Investors
- AQC Capital, Anges Québec, BDC Capital, ballas invest, Deep Divers Ltd
- Directory
- Hexoskin on /companies →
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Devices
Each device as the maker lists it; a dash means no source states the figure.
| Device | Form | Status | Sensors | Battery | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hexoskin Medical System (HMS, 7100-00016) ↗2025-11FDA 510(k)-cleared front-zip shirt for prescription use in adults. It records 3-lead ECG, heart rate, respiratory rate and activity, and has no alarms or automatic diagnosis. | clothing | On sale | ECG (3-lead, 250 Hz, 16-bit), respiratory inductance plethysmography (dual-band, 125 Hz), accelerometer (3-axis, 50 Hz) | 3 d | Quote only ('Request a Clinical Quote'). The page states 'up to 72 hours per charge and 600 hours of storage'. |
| Hexoskin Pro (shirt + Hexoskin recorder) ↗Washable garment with ECG and two breathing bands knitted in. Sleep staging is validated against polysomnography. Records about 42,000 data points per minute. Sizes 2XS–4XL. | clothing | On sale | ECG (single-lead, textile, 256 Hz), respiratory inductance plethysmography (2 bands, 128 Hz), accelerometer (3-axis, 64 Hz) | 1.5 d | $899Hexoskin Pro Men's or Women's Kit with Shirt and Recording Device listed at $899.00 USD; Pro shirt alone $249.00 USD (hexoskin.com store, 2026-11-08). Battery is stated as '36 hours and more per charge'. |
| Hexoskin Original ↗Everyday shirt that records the same signals as the Pro. Comes in men's, women's and junior sizes, with toddler sizes on request. | clothing | On sale | ECG (single-lead, textile, 256 Hz), respiratory inductance plethysmography (2 bands, 128 Hz), accelerometer (3-axis, 64 Hz) | 1.5 d | Price not seen. The store pages were rate-limited (429). |
| Astroskin (garment + forehead headband + recorder) ↗Research and space-grade system. The company says its 3-lead ECG is 'validated at 97% accuracy'. Flown on the ISS as the CSA's Bio-Monitor since January 2019 (the company's About page says 'Since 2018'). | clothing | On sale | ECG (3-lead, 250 Hz), respiratory inductance plethysmography (2 bands, 125 Hz), PPG (forehead, 75 Hz), SpO2, skin temperature, accelerometer (3-axis, 50 Hz), blood pressure (cuffless systolic estimate from ECG+PPG) | 2 d | Quote only ('Request a Quote'). Records 'for up to 48 hours'. |
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Regulatory clearances
Health features a regulator has cleared, with the decision number.
| Feature | Device | Agency | Type | Number | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recording, display and storage of 3-lead ECG, heart rate, respiratory rate and activity in adults on prescription. The 3-lead ECG is for manual assessment of cardiac rhythm disturbances. ↗ | Hexoskin Medical System (7100-00016) | FDA | 510(k) Traditional, Class II (21 CFR 870.2920), product code DXH, Substantially Equivalent | K243981 | 2025-11 |
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Partnerships
Teams, leagues, insurers and health systems that use or resell the devices.
- 2011Canadian Space Agency — First space-medicine contract, the start of the work that became Astroskin / Bio-Monitor ↗
- 2019-01Canadian Space Agency — Astroskin Bio-Monitor commissioned on the International Space Station by astronaut David Saint-Jacques. By Nov 2024 it was used in four clinical trials in space, with 20 payloads delivered. ↗
- 2024-11Canadian Space Agency — Contract to develop and adapt a crew physiological monitoring system for the lunar Gateway station ↗
- 2023-02CGI (HARMONY team) — Supplies Astroskin devices and AI medical software for the CSA's Connected Care Medical Module (C²M²) mobile-clinic prototype ↗
- 2023-11International Institute for Astronautical Sciences / Virgin Galactic — First suborbital flight to use Astroskin, worn by Kellie Gerardi on the Galactic 05 mission ↗
- 2019ASU / Mayo Clinic MedTech accelerator — Hexoskin was in the first cohort ↗
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Dated facts
Launches, lawsuits, acquisitions and filings, newest first.
- 2026-11The company says its hardware has been used in '325+ scientific publications', including '23 validation studies', by organizations in over 50 countries. ↗
- 2025-11FDA cleared the Hexoskin Medical System by 510(k) K243981 on 2025-11-18 (Class II, product code DXH). The company announced it on 2025-11-19. ↗
- 2024-11More than 20 astronauts from the USA, Canada, Japan, UAE and Italy have used Astroskin for clinical research in microgravity. ↗
- 2024-08Raised USD $4.2M from AQC Capital, Anges Québec, BDC Capital, ballas invest (Europe), Deep Divers Ltd (UK) and 19 other US and Canadian private investors, for growth, digital-biomarker research and AI diagnostics. ↗
- 2024-08Named customers include CSA, NASA, DOD, Yale Health and Boston Children's Hospital. ↗
- 2023Launched the Hexoskin OneView clinical-study management platform. ↗
- 2022Astroskin Bio-Monitor won the American Astronautical Society's 2022 International Space Station Research Innovation Award for Human Health in Space. ↗
- 2015-12Closed a $1,320,000 second round from Anges Québec members and the Anges Québec Capital fund, bringing private funding to 'over $3,200,000'. Earlier money: $730,000 seed (2012), $255,000 (2013) and $933,000 (2014). The release gives no currency; the company is Canadian. The round was to speed up medical certification. ↗
- 2013Founded in 2006 in Montreal. Launched 'the first washable smart shirts' in 2013. ↗
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Not yet confirmed
Claims seen in only one non-official place. Shown so they can be checked, not as findings.
- Caplight lists a '$16M Series A' for Hexoskin (search result only, not opened). It may be a mismatch and was not confirmed by any company source.
- Datanyze puts total funding at about $5.5M over two rounds (search snippet only).
- Hexoskin's own pages disagree on the ISS start date: the About page says 'Since 2018' and the Aerospace page says 'aboard the International Space Station since 2018', while the news and investor pages say commissioned January 2019.
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Sources
Retrieved 2026-11-08.
- About Hexoskin — Hexoskin
- Hexoskin Shirts — Hexoskin
- Astroskin Research Platform — Hexoskin
- Clinical Research & Development / Hexoskin Medical System — Hexoskin
- Astroskin and Hexoskin for Space & Aerospace — Hexoskin
- Software and Apps — Hexoskin
- Investor Relations — Hexoskin
- Hexoskin Announces $4.2M Additional Funding Round — Hexoskin
- Smart Clothing Leader Hexoskin Closes over $1.3M — Hexoskin
- Hexoskin Medical System Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance — Hexoskin
- Hexoskin wins contract to bring Astroskin sensors to the Moon — Hexoskin
- CGI and Hexoskin to Work Together on Connected Medical Clinic Project — Hexoskin
- Astroskin's first suborbital flight with Kellie Gerardi — Hexoskin
- Hexoskin presents ... at Intelligent Health 2019, in Basel — Hexoskin
- openFDA 510(k) — Carre Technologies, Inc. (K243981) — U.S. FDA
- Developing health-monitoring wearable technology for Gateway — Canadian Space Agency
- MDALL API — active licence holder companies (no Carré Technologies / Hexoskin entry) — Health Canada