FC Barcelona: Barça Innovation Hub becomes a shareholder of Catalan startup Onalabs (biotechnology)

The Barça Innovation Hub, FC Barcelona's (LALIGA EA Sports) sports knowledge and innovation centre, has become a shareholder in Onalabs, a Catalan start-up specialised in medical and technological innovation, announced the club on 11/10/2023.

"Onasport (Onalabs' product) is a device in the form of a pectoral band that uses sweat, non-invasively and in real time, to measure lactate levels (an indicator of muscle fatigue), sweating and dehydration in athletes. This is internal load data of major value that serves to optimally plan training and thus achieve greater muscle efficiency," explained FC Barcelona.

"As a result of their partnership, BIHUB and Onalabs plan to take this multi-sensor to the next level and over the coming months they will be working to develop it with the help of the club's athletes. The idea is to create a more sophisticated product that is capable of recording new biomarkers to expand the existing data ecosystem and shed even further light on the future of fitness and injury prevention," added Barça.

• Onalabs, founded in 2016, is the third start-up to be…