Business Overview

At Onethird, we aim to optimise sleep, rest, recovery and well-being for our customers through scientific and innovative technologies. Our vision is to perfect sleep for everyone, everywhere and make humanity thrive.

30% to 45% of adults worldwide experience insomnia or some form of sleep disorder. It is causing significant harm to individuals and society. Poor sleep impairs individuals' cognitive abilities, productivity, performance and mental and physical health. It poses a substantial threat to public safety, education and healthcare. The estimated cost of sleep disorders in Australia is $66.3 billion annually.

Onethird takes on these problems by building SOMA, a Sleep Optimising Mattress Accessory that leverages the prominent effect of temperature on sleep to create the best possible sleep environment and optimise sleep experience and quality.

Learn more about SOMA

People

Founders

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Ben Xu

Founder

Kirk Kee

Co-founder,
Science

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Roy Ong

Co-founder,
Operations

Roger Harley

Co-founder,
Finance

Research Partners

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Prof Amy Jordan

Director, John Trinder Sleep Laboratory, University of Melbourne

Prof Uwe Aickelin

Head, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne

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Dr Bagus Nugroho

Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne

Dr Ling Luo

Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne

Hardware Team

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Max Bloom

Engineer

Marko Celic

Engineer

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Hemant Suresh

Engineer

Software Team

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Vita Chien

Engineer

Yu Zhang

Engineer

Can Wang

Supervisor

Ximing Wan

Engineer

Sabrina Liang

Engineer

Tingfang Zhou

Engineer

Yu-Han Jen

Engineer

Carol Chan

Engineer

Jirui Zhang

Engineer