About AirTulip
At AirTulip, we believe your sleep should be sacred. That’s why we’ve engineered the cleanest, quietest, and most precise sleep environment on earth—using aerospace science to turn every night into an opportunity for healing, recovery, and peak performance.
At AirTulip, we believe your sleep should be sacred. That’s why we’ve engineered the cleanest, quietest, and most precise sleep environment on earth—using aerospace science to turn every night into an opportunity for healing, recovery, and peak performance.
Sleep in a cleanroom-quality bubble. No noise. No drafts. No compromise.
Less turbulence means fewer particles, fewer triggers, and deeper rest.
Ordinary air moves chaotically—stirring up dust, allergens, and pollutants. Laminar flow moves with precision, creating an invisible shield around your body as you sleep.
We built AirTulip using scientific tools from aerospace and physics, backed by decades of research and modern simulation techniques.
At the heart of AirTulip is controlled laminar airflow — a stream of ultra-low turbulence air that flows in a single direction. Unlike chaotic flow from fans or HVAC systems, laminar airflow creates a stable barrier that prevents outside pollutants from entering your breathing zone while you sleep.
This principle, used in cleanrooms, ICUs, and aerospace labs, has never been applied like this in the bedroom. Making it silent, elegant, and bedroom-safe required building a new kind of system — and testing it with the same rigor used in aviation and building physics.
AirTulip wasn’t adapted from existing products — it was engineered from scratch. We’ve filed multiple patent applications to protect the unique technology behind our clean zone delivery.
Our Journey
AirTulip appeared on SHARK TANK, showing the world what clean air can truly look and feel like. A silent, focused airflow — visualized in smoke, measured in real-time, built into a headboard designed for recovery. But it didn’t start there.
Before Shark Tank, we caught the attention of early users and believers — including NFL Pro Bowler Matt Judon, who used AirTulip to support his sleep and athletic recovery.
We first launched on Kickstarter, where hundreds of backers helped us bring AirTulip from prototype to production. That support validated a deeper shift: people were ready for something new. Not just a purifier — but a system that truly changes how air behaves around the body.
The idea was born during the pandemic in New York. With air quality top of mind, we built test rigs from scratch, used lasers and fog to visualize flow, and applied aerospace tools and cleanroom principles to create a protective breathing zone for the bedroom.
We’ve kept it hands-on ever since — designing, testing, and building each unit in New York and Detroit, personally controlling every single detail.
Today, AirTulip is more than a product. It’s part of a mission to raise awareness, shift expectations, and give people back control over something invisible — but vital.
Founder Story
AirTulip began with a question: why do we spend a third of our lives breathing dirty, uncontrolled air—especially while we sleep?
During the height of the pandemic in New York, we started experimenting. Using aerospace tools, lasers, and fog, we visualized airflow in bedrooms the way cleanrooms and jet labs do. What we found confirmed our intuition: even high-end purifiers weren’t protecting the most critical space—your personal breathing zone.
That’s when the idea for AirTulip was born: a clean-air system built not just to filter, but to control. We engineered it from scratch—applying decades of experience in aerospace, building physics, and airflow design.
Arjen de Jong, Founder: “I realized most people sleep breathing dirty air. That’s what pushed me to build something better—from the ground up.”
From the start, we kept it hands-on. We built early prototypes in New York, tested them with athletes, families, and wellness experts, and launched on Kickstarter. Hundreds of backers supported our vision. One of our first champions? NFL Pro Bowler Matt Judon, who used AirTulip to support deeper sleep and faster recovery.
Then came Shark Tank. We showed the world what clean air can look and feel like—visualized in smoke, silent in operation, and embedded in a sleek, modern headboard. Not a lifestyle product. A new category.
Today, AirTulip is more than a product. It’s a mission: to give people back control over their environment and elevate how we think about sleep, health, and recovery.
And we’re just getting started.
I’m an aerospace engineer and physicist with a PhD in aeroacoustics. I’ve worked with airflow at the highest levels — from Porsche and Ferrari to NASA — specializing in how to shape and silence it with precision.
But long before that, I grew up in a family business that built cleanrooms and industrial air systems. I learned early on how air behaves, how to control it, and how important it is in places where performance and purity matter.
During the pandemic in New York, I had a moment of clarity: most people spend a third of their life breathing uncontrolled, polluted air — especially while sleeping. I thought back to the cleanroom setups from my childhood, where smoke could fall undisturbed in a perfect laminar column. That level of control stuck with me.
I started testing — measuring, visualizing, iterating — pulling in tools from aerospace, building physics, and bio-inspired design. What began as a concept became a product: a headboard that doesn’t just filter air, but delivers it with control and intent.
That’s how AirTulip was born — not from lifestyle trends, but from deep technical expertise, cross-industry knowledge, and a drive to build something truly new.
How we make AirTulip
To make that possible, we drew from decades of research and cutting-edge industry tools used across aerospace and environmental engineering.
We didn’t build a better air purifier. We re-engineered how air works—just for sleep. To engineer and validate this level of precision, we turned to the same tools used in high-performance labs and jet engine development. We visualized airflow using laser-based systems from LaVision, typically reserved for combustion research and wind tunnels. We applied flow visualization principles from TU Delft’s Aerodynamics department by Prof Fulvio Scarano, treating air as a medium to sculpt.
Our particle-free zone was tested in professional chambers from the Building Physics group at TU Eindhoven, where airflow behavior around the sleeping body was modeled with thermal mannequins and smoke tracers.
We custom-designed our fans using aerospace software—so you get powerful airflow with whisper-level silence.
Owls, Jet Engines, and You
And we didn’t stop at aerospace. Inspired by the silent flight of owls, we applied biomimicry to our fan blade edges, incorporating serrated geometries that reduce turbulence and noise — just like an owl’s feathers dampen sound mid-flight.
This cross-industry approach let us build something new: not just a better purifier, but a deep-tech product that shapes the air around your body with aerospace precision.
The Four Pillars of AirTulip's Deep Tech
We're not copying a category - we're inventing a new one. One where you can see, feel, and measure the air that helps you recover. Here's how we built the cleanest air zone ever made for the bedroom:
- Technology University Delft-inspired flow control
- CFD modeling and pressure tuning
- Laser imaging (LaVision)
- Particle sensors and flow meters
- CFturbo fan blade generation
- 3D-printed airflow systems
- Technology University Eindhoven airflow test chambers
- Smoke + thermal mannequin trials
What’s in the Air You Breathe - Why it matters?
You breathe 2,600 gallons of air every night. Most of it is polluted. If that air contains dust, smoke, allergens, or ultrafine particles, you’re inhaling millions of microscopic intruders while lying still, hour after hour.
Most people think air quality is a daytime issue — traffic, pollution, city smog. But the truth is, you breathe more air while you sleep than at any other time of day.
And unlike food or water, there’s no pause button. Your lungs are always working. What’s in the air matters.
The Problem: Fine and Ultrafine Particles
Air isn’t just clean or dirty — it’s full of particles of different sizes. And the smaller they are, the more damage they do.
- PM10 (pollen, coarse dust): Gets trapped in your nose and throat;
- PM2.5 (fine dust, mold spores): Reaches deep into your lungs;
- PM0.3 and smaller (ultrafine particles, wildfire smoke, viruses): Bypass your body's defenses, enter the bloodstream, and trigger inflammation.
You can inhale hundreds of millions of these particles in a single night, especially in bedrooms without proper filtration or air control. They’ve been linked to:
- Higher rates of asthma, allergies, and respiratory illness;
- Disrupted heart rate variability (HRV) and poor sleep recovery;
- Chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, and slower healing;
- Reduced performance and recovery in athletes and high performers.
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Why the AirTulip Clean Zone Matters
1. We create a clean air zone.
AirTulip doesn’t just reduce airborne particles — it controls how air moves. By using precise laminar airflow, we form a clean-air shield around your head and upper body, isolating your breathing zone and continuously pushing polluted air outward. It’s not about cleaning the whole room — it’s about protecting you where it matters most: while you sleep.
Think of it as a personal cleanroom effect, embedded in a headboard.
2. Clean air have been shown to support better health and recovery.
Scientific literature has shown that reducing exposure to airborne particulates and allergens can help:
- Minimize triggers for asthma and allergies;
- Improve sleep quality, HRV, and recovery;
- Reduce inflammatory load and respiratory stress, especially in sensitive individuals;
- Create safer environments for children, athletes, and those with respiratory conditions.
You can’t always control the world outside. But with AirTulip, you can shape the air that enters your body for 8 hours a night — when recovery, immunity, and rest are at their most vulnerable.
Build Differently
Every unit is hand-built in the U.S.—crafted in limited batches and individually tuned for performance.
Owning an AirTulip isn’t like owning a product. It’s like owning a precision instrument for health—made just for you.
Everyone from athletes to asthmatics benefits from clean air.
Designed to Move Air Right — And Keep It Quiet
We use additive manufacturing (3D printing) to create organic, aerodynamic fan blades and flow channels that simply aren’t possible with traditional methods. Inspired by the serrated feathers of owl wings, our impellers reduce turbulence and tonal noise at the source. This allows for more air movement, less disturbance — and no trade-off between power and silence
Medical-Grade Filters, Bedroom Ready
Most consumer air purifiers stop at HEPA H13, which captures 99.95% of 0.3 micron particles. We use true H14-rated filters, the same standard required in medical cleanrooms and pharmaceutical manufacturing — capturing 99.995% at 0.3 microns. That difference matters when you’re breathing it for eight hours a night.
And because laminar flow requires consistent pressure, our filter system is designed to maintain performance even as the filters load — not just on day one.
Strength, Silence, and Structure
To maintain shape under airflow pressure without vibration, we use a structural honeycomb core — a lightweight composite that resists deformation and helps dampen internal noise. Around that, we’ve developed custom foam-based acoustic pathways that enclose the motor and redirect any remaining sound energy away from the user.
Built Like a Supercar, Tuned for Sleep
Even the outer fabrics and upholstery are tested. We measure their airflow resistance to ensure they perform well. Once approved, each shell is sealed, the airflow path validated, and the unit run-tested for performance and sound.
We don’t guess. We don’t assume. We test.
Every AirTulip unit is:
- Built-in the USA: Brooklyn and Detroit;
- Hand-assembled, sealed, and individually signed off;
- Tuned for airflow quality, pressure, and acoustic performance;
- Designed with long-life modular components for easy service and future upgrades.
This is not mass production. It’s low-volume, high-integrity manufacturing — made to deliver better sleep, better recovery, and better air every night.