Tagged: iot

March 28, 2015 @ 7:15 am By JD Alois  |  

The crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for Pebble’s new smartwatch has officially closed.  Pebble Time now stands as the most funded campaign ever on Kickstarter.  Pebble raised a total of $20,338,986 from 78,471 backers.  Pebble easily topped the previous record holder, Coolest Cooler, a   product… Read More

March 23, 2015 @ 12:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

The most successful Kickstarter campaign ever, Pebble Time, is nearing its close scheduled for March 27th. The pre-emptive strike against the forthcoming Apple Watch has not only proven the intense interest in wearable Pebble smartwatch tech, but in many respects has validated predictions of strong demand… Read More

March 7, 2015 @ 4:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE), a global conglomerate with its headquarters based in Tokyo, is a company valued at over $30 billion with hundreds of subsidiaries and thousands of product lines. Best known for its electronic products, Sony has not been known for innovation since it cooked up… Read More

March 3, 2015 @ 8:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Pebble Set to Challenge Forthcoming Apple Watch with New Design, 10 Day Battery Life & “Smartstraps” Pebble, the leader in the smartwatch space, launched a second round of crowdfunding on Kickstarter at the end of last month.  The project rocketed immediately, easily topping its half… Read More

February 24, 2015 @ 11:58 am By JD Alois  |  

The Pebble Smartwatch has hit the pages of Kickstarter once again.  This time seeking a funding round of $500,000. But don’t blink. The crowdfunding campaign raised that amount and then some almost immediately.  At this very moment, Pebble has raised well over $3.4 million, from… Read More

February 3, 2015 @ 12:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Pebble Watch, a poster child for the potential of crowdfunding to take a cool concept and turn into a consumer reality, has surpassed 1 million watches sold having topped 400k last year. This report comes on the eve of Apple’s most important product launch in… Read More

January 21, 2015 @ 7:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bragi Dash, one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns from 2014, has once again pushed back their shipping date for their wireless smart headphones.  The young German company announced the delay in an post to crowdfunding backers.  The update came after sharing a highly successful trip… Read More

January 21, 2015 @ 8:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Wearable tech startup Ringly has collected a $5.1 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.  The company ran a successful pretail funding campaign last summer easily topping their $60,000 goal.  The campaign was described at the time as the “most successful pre-sales campaign… Read More

December 4, 2014 @ 12:04 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Technology that listens!  Life with ivee agrees with enthusiastic Crowdfunder investors and kickstarter backers: the AI, IoT, Speech Recognition Home Automation Control Platform campaign has raised over $165K since opening on 1 December. After viewing the campaign video and hearing ivee pleasantly rattle off the temp, traffic,… Read More

November 4, 2014 @ 7:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Australia based Crowdfunding Platform Pozible Partners with China Government Office  to Connect Entrepreneurs with Capital, Manufacturing Support, Chinese Entity Setup and More. Pozible, an international crowdfunding platform based in Australia, has partnered with IDG Capital Partners and the Shanghai-Nanxiang government to award matching funds and other… Read More

October 28, 2014 @ 12:21 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Khosla Ventures’ Keith Rabois, Andreessen Horowitz’s Chris Dixon and AngelList founder Naval Ravikant will be the keynote speakers at this year’s Post Seed Conference, a one-day event that gathers investors, entrepreneurs and the startup press to discuss early-stage financing. Hosted by Bullpen Capital, Venture51 and Vator, Post Seed, (formerly known as… Read More

October 16, 2014 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Super umbrella company Blunt has partnered up with Tile, “worlds largest lost and found”, to deliver the worlds first umbrella that you will never lose.  Blunt makes really tough and cool umbrellas that can stand up to most punishing storms using their “Radial Tensioning System”…. Read More

September 9, 2014 @ 8:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Trackr Bravo raised over $1.2 million crowdfunding on Indiegogo this past August.  The “thinnest item tracking device” joined a growing list of successful item finders that was rocketed into the public eye with the hugely successful Tile pretail crowdfunding campaign.  As an owner of several… Read More

September 3, 2014 @ 9:03 am By JD Alois  |  

As part of an ongoing initiative to spur innovation across various sectors of the crowdfunding world, Indiegogo has formed a partnership with Icontrol’s OpenHome Labs incubator program.  Now smart home devices launching crowdfunding campaigns on Indiegogo will have special access to OpenHomes program including: mentoring,… Read More

August 26, 2014 @ 7:31 am By JD Alois  |  

“The Future of Design in Wearables and IOT” Join us to discuss design, how it’s evolving, breaking rules, designing on different surfaces/screen sizes and the thought process into what it takes to create a design that people will enjoy and want to own. Agenda 6:00pm:… Read More

August 7, 2014 @ 8:41 am By Erin Hobey  |  

BT9, an Internet of Things (IoT) company enabling real time monitoring of the transport and storage of perishable products in order to provide actionable intelligence for optimizing food safety and drastically reducing waste, has secured its target goal, raising $4.04 million in committed funding on… Read More