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Our team

The people behind WakeZ

Physicians, researchers and engineers in Cluj-Napoca, working on one idea: the sleep your watch already records should be worth something to you, and to your doctor.

The WakeZ team, eight people sitting together in front of the WakeZ logo wall in the office.

Our story

It began with a question about the nights

A psychiatrist and a machine learning engineer asked what a watch on the wrist could tell a doctor about someone’s sleep. Since 2019, that question has become four peer-reviewed papers, a sleep laboratory, and an app that is now a Class I medical device.

Along the way we made one decision that shapes everything: the app describes your sleep and never judges you. If anything in your nights deserves a second look, that is for a doctor, and WakeZ makes it easier for one to be in the loop.

  1. 2019

    Work on WakeZ begins in Cluj-Napoca

    A psychiatrist and a machine learning engineer start recording nights with an Apple Watch and a sleep lab side by side.

  2. 2023

    The first paper

    A review of the science on REM sleep and depression, in the Journal of Personalized Medicine.

  3. 2024

    Two more papers

    REM patterns measured with a consumer watch, and a study of gradual awakening, the idea behind the Smart Alarm.

  4. 2025

    The largest study so far

    191 adults, 15 nights, published in Diagnostics.

  5. 2026

    A medical device

    WakeZ is available in the Romanian App Store and registered as a Class I medical device.

We believe the nights you already record should work for you. That is why WakeZ shows you your sleep, wakes you at your time, and keeps a doctor at your partner clinic in the loop.

Leadership

Doctors and builders at one table

We make decisions with physicians in the room, and we write down what the app does and doesn’t do.

  • Zaki Milhem

    Co-founder & CEO

    Psychiatrist, PhD in biotechnology. Author of published studies on sleep and depression.

    LinkedIn profile of Zaki Milhem

  • Vadim Fintinari

    Co-founder & CTO

    Machine learning engineer. Founder of STEEPSOFT, acquired by RebelDot.

    LinkedIn profile of Vadim Fintinari

  • Raul Crișan

    Commercial & Operations

    Marketing strategist focused on health tech. Leads WakeZ communication, market entry and day-to-day operations.

    LinkedIn profile of Raul Crișan

  • Mara-Simina Olinic

    Clinical team

    Psychiatry resident. Clinical evaluation and study coordination.

    LinkedIn profile of Mara-Simina Olinic

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    Doctors

    The physicians on the WakeZ team, working alongside the four people above.

What we value

The principles we build by

  • Science first

    We build on published evidence, say clearly what we don’t know yet, and let studies rather than hype decide what ships.

  • Care, not surveillance

    Sleep data is personal. You decide what you share, with whom, and for how long. Nothing leaves your phone for a clinic until you say so.

  • Calm by design

    Fewer notifications, plain words, no scores about how you feel. A product used at night should never add to the noise.

  • Doctors in the loop

    WakeZ gives you your sleep and gives a doctor at your partner clinic the same record. What it means is for a physician to say, never for an app.

People on the team
22
Peer-reviewed papers
4
Sleep laboratory
1in Cluj-Napoca
Building since
2019
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Let’s build better nights, together.

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WakeZ is a Class I medical device, CE marked. It supports sleep awareness, a consistent sleep routine and self-reflection, as a measure intended to help reduce the risk of depression in adults aged 18 to 65 who are at risk and not diagnosed. It does not diagnose or treat any condition and is not an emergency service.

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