Ultrahuman, a Bengaluru-based health tech startup best known for its smart rings, has partnered with Abu Dhabi health authorities to develop a biological-age model that it says will eventually be made available to people across the United Arab Emirates.

On Monday, Ultrahuman announced that it had signed a two-year memorandum of understanding with the Abu Dhabi Public Health Center (ADPHC) to develop and validate the model, which will combine clinical biomarkers with data from wearable devices. The partnership aims to use these signals to estimate how quickly an individual is aging and identify factors — including sleep, activity, cardiovascular health, and metabolism — that may be accelerating or slowing that process.

The partnership marks Ultrahuman’s latest effort to go beyond selling wearable hardware and deploy its health algorithms at a much larger scale. The startup increasingly sees itself as a health-data company, with its smart ring serving as one way to collect information that can underpin algorithms spanning aging, longevity, and other areas of health, CEO Mohit Kumar said in an interview.

“If you look at Ultrahuman as a company, we obviously have the Ultrahuman Ring, which is a way to acquire data from the human body,” Kumar told TechCrunch. “But truly, what we care about is not just the form factor, the ring, but what do we do with this data?”

Working with a government gives Ultrahuman the opportunity to apply its algorithms to a far broader population than its own customer base, Kumar said. The startup has sold around 800,000 smart rings globally so far.

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