Startups
SleepSpace
Fairfax, Virginia, United States (current NIH awardee location) · Washington, DC, United States (historical NSF awardee location)
SleepSpace is a sleep-health technology company combining phone and wearable sensing, a digital sleep diary, adaptive auditory stimulation, smart-bedroom light integration, and behavior-change programmes informed by cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. Its current products include a consumer app, clinician/research dashboards, Smart Bed or phone-based nearable sensing, sleep coaching and the Dr. Snooze AI conversational sleep coach. Sleep-stage estimates, consumer symptom support and research findings are distinct from a diagnostic authorisation or an independently established treatment claim. The company’s own science page explicitly distinguishes consumer sleep trends from diagnosing disorders; older crowdfunding promises of FDA approval in2022 do not establish an actual clearance. The current legal issuer is Proactive Life Inc., CIK1744917 and EIN270800635, independently named as the SleepSpace app’s Apple publisher and current NIH awardee. SEC submissions retain the previous Proactive Life LLC name; NIH/NSF and peer-reviewed investigator disclosures connect the earlier Mobile Sleep Technologies LLC sleep-research business to Proactive Life and the SleepSpace brand. This source-qualified legal history does not merge unrelated Proactive Life businesses, the Beta Service Agency app using a similar SleepSpace title, or Daniel Gartenberg’s personal investment in Neurosity. No exact incorporation or conversion day is inferred. The current issuer about page names founder/CEO Daniel Gartenberg and co-founder/Chief Product Officer Melissa Mueller, six combined investor/adviser affiliations, and six research collaborators. The combined investor/adviser section does not prove a personal check by each named person; external employer captions are undated context. Its2021–2022 crowdfunding team slide additionally names historical Chief Technical Officer Jeremiah J. Merrick, iOS Frontend Developer Ben Gottlieb and Chief Science Officer Daniel Roberts. Those earlier executive appointments are qualified historical, while the current site publishes Dan Roberts as a research collaborator. The SleepSpace sleep researcher is distinct from the Scout Alarm product-founder Daniel Roberts. Primary NIH records identify six separate fiscal-year NIA notices awarded to Proactive Life or its Mobile Sleep predecessor: USD348951 in2017,347058 in2018,1243520 in2020,1234826 in2021,50000 supplemental in2022, and499963 in2025. These are annual notice-award amounts, not duplicate full-project totals, equity rounds or bank-disbursement dates. NSF award1622766 separately reports224996USD obligated for its2016 STTR PhaseI project. The seven retrieved records total3949314USD; varying website claims of over3M/3.5M/4M are not added as additional financing. Research subawards to academic collaborators are not separately attributed as company equity. Its issuer-operated Wefunder page reports242414USD raised from67 investors, last fundedMarch2022. No exact closing day or unnamed crowd investors are invented. The same page describes more than1.2MUSD raised in a previous venture round including Quake Capital and UpVentures; because the precise amount/day/stage and allocation are unpublished, the retained prior-venture relationship keeps cash/day NULL. SEC lists2018 D/D-A and a2021 FormC; their inaccessible full documents remain a source gap, and offering targets are not treated as proceeds.
Team
 Amy CovenyInvestor / Adviser (published combined roster; capacity unspecified) |
 Ben GottliebiOS Frontend Developer (historical 2021–2022 fundraising roster) |
 Dan RobertsResearch Collaborator — Sleep Science (published, source-aged affiliation) · Chief Science Officer (historical 2021–2022 issuer roster) |
 Daniel GartenbergFounder & Chief Executive Officer |
 Daniel TaylorResearch Collaborator — Sleep Science (published, source-aged affiliation) |
 Dave AspreyInvestor / Adviser (published combined roster; capacity unspecified) |
 Jeff FinkleInvestor / Adviser (published combined roster; capacity unspecified) |
 Jeremiah J. MerrickChief Technical Officer (historical 2021–2022 fundraising roster) |
 Margeaux GreyResearch Collaborator — Sleep Science (published, source-aged affiliation) |
 Martin BabinecInvestor / Adviser (published combined roster; capacity unspecified) |
 Melissa MuellerCo-Founder & Chief Product Officer |
 Orfeu BuxtonResearch Collaborator — Sleep Science (published, source-aged affiliation) |
 Randall EvensInvestor / Adviser — Clinical Pulmonology (combined roster; capacity unspecified) |
 Samantha Marie NagyResearch Collaborator — Sleep Science (published, source-aged affiliation) |
 Sarah EmertResearch Collaborator — Sleep Science (published, source-aged affiliation) |
 Valorie WolfeInvestor / Adviser — Clinical Psychology (combined roster; capacity unspecified) |