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| 06.07.2023 | Europe is more of a fuzzy tech cloud than a functioning ecosystem | Haje Jan Kamps Contributor
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Haje Jan Kamps is the director of portfolio at Bolt, a venture capital firm focused on hardware startups and enabling technologies. He was also a staff writer for TechCrunch.
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| 17.08.2022 | As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works | Before you raise money as a cash-strapped fledgling startup, it can feel like every problem you are experiencing would go away if you just had some money in the bank. At TechCrunch, it often seems as if every other startup story is about ye... |
| 19.07.2022 | The Internet of Shittiest Things: ExtremeTech’s All-Time Hall of Shame | I’ve written to a lot of topics at ET, from CPUs and semiconductors to archaeology, but cataloguing bad Internet of Things devices has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. It’s not because I hate the IoT — I genuinely don’t — but because ... |
| 07.07.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Green Generation Fund raises $120m, Amazon takes Grubhub stake | This week, Germany’s Green Generation Fund landed more capital to invest in alt-protein startups, while Israeli foodtech firm Phytolon scored funding for its natural food coloring tech.
In the food delivery realm, Amazon bought a stake in G... |
| 07.07.2022 | BREAKING: Fyto lands $15m to grow aquatic “superplants” for animal feed and beyond | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Fyto.
US-based agtech startup Fyto has raised $15 million in Series A funding for its specialized aquatic “superplants” that can be used for animal feed, food and soil health ing... |
| 21.04.2022 | The Top 40 Investors In Industrial Tech: How Investments In Transformative Solutions Using AI, Cloud, And Edge Act Like Probiotics For Manufacturing | Traditionally, few venture capitalists would touch industrial startup companies. Time cycles were too long and clunky hardware complicated things. However, deep digitalization is taking hold, the expectations are that the industrial sector ... |
| 19.04.2022 | New VC firm Baukunst spools up to invest in ‘creative technologists’ | Aptly, Baukunst — named after the German word for “the art of building” — is looking to invest its freshly raised fund into founders who are “elevating the art of building.” The firm is leaning into its concept of “creative technologists,” ... |
| 19.01.2022 | How Mayht, a small startup, is taking on the world of speaker goliaths | There are many ways of spinning up a startup, but it takes a particularly brave set of founders to take on a deeply entrenched industry with a small number of incumbents who have the market all sown up. You’d have to be a special flavor of ... |
| 30.07.2020 | The road to recurring revenue for hardware startups | Nils Mattisson Contributor
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Formerly at Apple, Nils Mattisson is now CEO and co-founder of smart home tech company Minut.
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| 27.09.2019 | Secretive robotic farming startup led by Islion founder raises $8.9M from Ignition and Bolt | Paul Mikesell (LinkedIn Photo)
More details are emerging about a secretive Seattle startup led by Paul Mikesell, a University of Washington trained computer scientist who co-founded storage giant Isilon Systems in 2001.
The company, called ... |
| 03.07.2019 | Free Workshops, Tools, & Advice? Centrepolis Aids Hardware Startups | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Although Michigan is home to 2,500 small manufacturers and is the center of the domestic auto industry, it didn’t have a hardware technology incubator until Lawrence Technolog... |
| 25.06.2019 | Join raises $4M seed round to build a better construction planning platform | Startup Join wants to modernize the back office for an industry that’s everywhere, but maybe not top of mind, especially when it comes to project management software: Commercial construction. The company has raised a $4 million seed round, ... |
| 10.05.2019 | Meet Bobbie, a baby formula delivery startup promising healthier ingredients | Don’t like the idea of your baby guzzling down liquid candy all day? It may surprise you to find corn syrup is the main ingredient in most infant formulas in the U.S. That’s where Bobbie, a Bay Area-based baby formula delivery startup promi... |
| 11.07.2018 | ‘Airbnb mafia’ fund Wave Capital makes it official, closing its debut fund with $55 million | A couple of weeks ago, Airbnb announced some major changes to the ways it compensates employees before it goes public.
At least two former Airbnb employees and a longtime VC will be ready to fund those who leave when it does. They’ve been w... |
| 09.07.2018 | Digging deeper into smart speakers reveals two clear paths | In a truly fascinating exploration into two smart speakers – the Sonos One and the Amazon Echo – BoltVC’s Ben Einstein has found some interesting differences in the way a traditional speaker company and an infrastructure juggernaut look at ... |
| 05.06.2018 | Why Is Hardware Hard In Nigeria? | Every product you use most likely took years (or at least months) of design, prototyping and iteration before it was ready for you to purchase. That’s just the nature of the hardware business. To achieve a final product, a lot of creativity... |
| 19.04.2018 | The making of a hardware founder | Working in tech, it’s hard to avoid the many stories and congratulatory tweets about the latest company to close a funding round, and little wonder. It’s a milestone worth celebrating before getting back to work. Yet what’s happening in the... |
| 10.04.2018 | How to understand the financial levers in your business | Haje Jan Kamps Contributor
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| 21.03.2018 | Apple is an exception to nearly every rule | Haje Jan Kamps Contributor
Haje Jan Kamps is the director of portfolio at Bolt, a venture capital firm focused on hardware startups and enabling technologies. He was also a staff writer for TechCrunch.
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| 04.09.2017 | Pour One Out for Juicero, the Now-Defunct $700 Juicer Company | Back in 2014, a fledging new startup with a song in its heart and highly dubious nutritional science in its soul, received an estimated $120 million in VC funding. Juicero was founded by Doug Evans, a man with a passion for organic grocerie... |
| 22.08.2017 | Avnet Acquires Boston Hardware Consultant Dragon Innovation | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Dragon Innovation, the Boston-area hardware consulting firm, has been acquired by one of its partners, Avnet, for an undisclosed price.
Phoenix-based global distributor Avnet ... |
| 01.06.2017 | Hardware Focused VC Firm Bolt Closes Third Fund, at $80M | Bolt, a Boston and San Francisco based hardware focused early stage venture capital firm, closed its third fund, at $80m.
Led by Ben Einstein and Axel Bichara as well as new General Partner Greg McAdoo (formerly of Sequoia Capital), Bolt us... |
| 31.05.2017 | Bolt Goes Bigger, Raises $80M for Third Early-Stage Hardware Fund | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Bolt just raised over $80 million for its third venture fund, its largest to date. But the hardware investor and manufacturing consultant says it remains committed to backing ... |
| 07.05.2017 | This dystopia is completely ridiculous | We live in dark and darkly hilarious times. Our world has grown so bewildering and complicated, in no small part because of the finger jammed on technology’s fast-forward button, that many people have given up trying to make sense of it — o... |
| 26.04.2017 | TechCabal daily: Which way Rocket? | Hey there! Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1).
It’s Wednesday. Can you tell how excited I am? 😀
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| 26.04.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, April 26 | ET CETERA
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This the third-largest ever “ed tech” deal, aside from German publishing giant Bertelsmann’s $230 million stake in HotChalk and a $200 million fundraising by TutorGroup, an Alibaba-backed English tutoring startup.
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| 25.04.2017 | Juicero teardown hints at a very expensively built product | this post a venture capital partner pulls apart this machine."/>
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| 24.04.2017 | Juicero may be the absurd avatar of Silicon Valley hubris, but boy is it well-engineered | The Juicero story is a funny one in some ways and a sad one in others, so let’s just assume they cancel each other out and admire the machine itself in a nice judgment-free moral vacuum.
Or rather, let’s let someone qualified do it for us. ... |
| 05.04.2017 | Cendana Capital — which funds 15 top seed-stage groups — just raised a ton of capital | Michael Kim is pretty much killing it.
Seven years ago, when he first approached investors with the idea of creating a fund-of-funds that would invest in seed-stage, or so-called micro VC, funds, they were cool to the idea. In fact, it took... |
| 26.02.2017 | Social Starts Buzz Room: February 20, 2017 | A compendium of what our partners are reading each week, highlighting macro industry trends, our investment focus areas, and general personal and business strategies.
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| 05.01.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: IoT & Automation, Aquaculture Feed, Weeding Tech, Smart Fridges, more | Routrek, a Japanese sensing, IoT, and automation company, has raised $3.46 million in Series B funding for its Zero.agri product. Zero.agri optimizes and automates irrigation and fertilization. A variety of investors participated in the rou... |
| 15.12.2016 | NextView Ventures is looking to raise at least $50 million for a third fund | NextView Ventures, one of few seed-stage venture firms in Boston, is looking to raise at least $50 million for a third fund, shows an SEC filing that was processed yesterday. The firm closed its second fund with $40 million in 2014 and its ... |
| 14.11.2016 | Techpoint Jos Meetup, Mamalette Live and other tech events for this week | Share this article:
The tech events happening this week is all about meetups and getting educated by experts. Here are the tech events for this week (Tuesday, 15th November – Monday, 21st November 2016). Techpoint Jos Meetup at nHub
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| 22.09.2016 | Who invests in hardware? | Chris Quintero Contributor
Chris Quintero is an associate at Bolt, a seed-stage fund that invests capital, staff, prototyping facilities and expertise in startups at the intersection of hardware and software.
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| 09.08.2016 | Top 10 Websites for Hardware Entrepreneurs | Every entrepreneur’s business brings its own unique challenges – and few startups are more challenging than those that create physical hardware products.
The good news is that a few websites provide excellent resources for hardware startups... |
| 12.07.2016 | Catching up with the buzzy hardware startups of NYCEDC’s Next Top Makers incubator | Maker stories used to focus on decentralized production tools, hobbyists and makerspaces. Now it’s about the businesses behind products that make people’s lives.
Take StrongArm Technologies, for example, which makes safety equipment for blu... |
| 10.04.2016 | Ground delivery robots: Passing fancy or next wave? | “Every failed on demand startup will reappear as a successful robotics driven business in five to 10 years.” So tweeted Jeremy Conrad, founding partner of the San Francisco-based hardware fund Lemnos Labs, one recent afternoon.
Conrad appar... |
| 28.03.2016 | Daily funding roundup - March 28, 2016 | Emulate secured $28M; Goldman Sachs invested in Venus Medtech; Fixt received $600k Seed funding
Flyr, a San Francisco, CA-based travel and data science company, received an investment from JetBlue Technology Ventures, the new venture capita... |
| 28.03.2016 | Kuvee raises $6 million for smart wine bottles, sells out preorders in 3 hours | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Drink up! Or not. Now, you can save as much wine ... |
| 28.03.2016 | Kuvee raises $6 million for smart wine bottles, sells out preorders in 3 hours | Drink up! Or not. Now, you can save as much wine as you want for up to 30 days after opening a bottle — if you drink out of Kuvee‘s new smart wine bottle.
The Boston-based winery startup announced today that it served itself a $6 million in... |
| 06.03.2016 | Autodesk CEO Carl Bass on investing in the future | A year ago, the design-focused software firm Autodesk announced it would stop selling standalone perpetual licenses of its desktop software and instead sell subscriptions. Early last month, it began implementing that switch, a move that wil... |
| 05.01.2016 | Hands-on: Muzik’s Twitter-backed headphones beat Apple’s Beats | I couldn’t help but roll my eyes when I read that Twitter’s first hardware investment was a Beats competitor called Muzik.
“Fantastic,” I thought. “Mankind has been patiently awaiting headphones that can tweet.”
It seemed wrongheaded. It se... |
| 28.12.2015 | Daily funding roundup - December 28, 2015 | Lyft bagged $105M; modeFinance received $1.4M investment; Anpac Bio raised $2M funding
Phytech, a Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel-based provider of Ag analytics and data management solutions, closed a Series A funding round of undisclosed amo... |
| 19.12.2015 | From Half-Baked To Overcooked — The “Revolutionary” Evolution Of Crowdfunding | Hi, I’m the founder and CEO of SpongeBath and we are running an exciting Kickstarter campaign: SpongeBath — The Revolutionary SpongeHolder. It’s the first designer sponge holder that will store, clean & sanitize sponges. Its patented te... |
| 03.12.2015 | Announcing the 2015 50 on Fire Winners | Tonight we unveiled the 2015 50 on Fire winners during our annual 50 on Fire celebration. These 50 winners represent a group of diverse individuals and organizations who are driving the innovation economy in Boston and beyond.
To select the... |
| 30.10.2015 | How Ben Einstein and Bolt Are Making Boston the Center of Hardware Tech | Not many are doing it like Bolt, the Boston-based VC firm that focuses on early-stage hardware startups. In just over two years, the firm has invested in 26 companies, raised a second fund of around $40 million, opened a San Francisco branc... |
| 12.09.2015 | Who Invests In Hardware Startups? | Chris Quintero Contributor
Chris Quintero is an associate at Bolt, a seed-stage fund that invests capital, staff, prototyping facilities and expertise in startups at the intersection of hardware and software.
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| 09.08.2015 | Hardware Incubators Are Critical To The Future Of Making Things | Mike Geyer Contributor
Mike Geyer is the director of evangelism and emerging technology at Autodesk.
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3 pitfalls that can sink any crowdfunded hardware startup
Hardware is hot — and poised to get hotter. Ventur... |
| 12.03.2015 | Dear Packaging, I Hate You | Ben Einstein Contributor
Editor’s note: Ben Einstein is a founder and general partner at Bolt, a seed-stage fund that invests capital, staff, prototyping facilities and expertise in startups at the intersection of hardware and software.
Few... |
| 05.02.2015 | Y Combinator partners with early-stage VC Bolt and Autodesk, opens lab to foster hardware startups | Y Combinator has historically fostered software and Internet-focused startups, but with its increasing investment in hardware companies, the accelerator program today announced a partnership with Bolt and Autodesk’s Pier 9 lab to better cat... |
| 05.02.2015 | Bolt to Advise Y Combinator’s Hardware Startups | Y Combinator, the Mountain View-based startup seed fund, is partnering with Bolt, a venture fund that invests in early-stage hardware and software startups.
In particular, Bolt, which has just closed a new 25m second fund (read here) and an... |
| 03.02.2015 | Bolt Closes Second Fund, at $25M | Bolt, a Boston-based venture capital fund focused on connected hardware startups, closed its second fund, at $25m.
Limited partners in the new fund include return strategic investors Autodesk, Logitech, and Grishin Robotics and new strategi... |
| 03.02.2015 | Hardware Investor Bolt Adds San Francisco Office, $25M Fund | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Bolt is heading west after closing a $25 million second venture fund.
The Boston-based investor and manufacturing consultant is opening West Coast operations in San Francisco,... |
| 07.01.2015 | Sutro’s Smart Device Helps Pool Owners Take Control Of Their Water Chemistry | Sutro, a startup presenting at TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield in Las Vegas, is aiming to remove one of the big headaches of owning a backyard swimming pool or spa.
Now, I don’t have a pool myself (weird, I know), but co-founders Ravi Kur... |
| 22.09.2014 | Boston Tech Roundup: Wayfair, Flashnotes, Ubersense, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A little more detail about a big IPO and news of some smaller private deals, from seed funding up to an acquisition, to get you caught up this week:
—Wayfair, the Boston-based... |
| 30.04.2014 | Understory scores $1.9M to generate better weather data from the ground | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Most meteorologists predict the weather by looking at the sky, but one startup thinks it can do better by looking at the ground.
A star... |
| 30.04.2014 | Understory scores $1.9M to generate better weather data from the ground | Most meteorologists predict the weather by looking at the sky, but one startup thinks it can do better by looking at the ground.
A startup called Understory thinks it can provide better forecasts by measuring conditions on the ground, inste... |
| 17.03.2014 | Loci Controls Raises Seed Funding | Loci Controls, a Boston, MA-based cleantech startup, raised a seed funding of undisclosed amount.
Backers included CommonAngels Venture Fund, Launch Capital and several angels in the Boston area.
The company intends to use the funds to comm... |
| 14.03.2014 | Boston Tech Roundup: Persimmon, OwnCloud, Basho, Echo Nest, Loci | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Check out a few investments, executives coming and going, and busted business deals in this trip through the week’s Boston-area technology headlines:
—Persimmon Technologies, ... |
| 13.03.2014 | BOLT Startup Loci Controls Raises $760K to Turn Organic Waste Into Watts | One man’s trash is ... this Boston cleantech startup’s treasured chance to optimize energy production. Loci Controls announced on Thursday that it has scored $765,000 in seed funding to refine its technology for automating the harvest of me... |
| 22.01.2014 | Petnet Closes $1.125M Seed Funding Round | Petnet, a Los Angeles, CA-based connected pet device company, closed a $1.125m seed funding round.
Backers included Grishin Robotics, Kima Ventures, SparkLabs Global Ventures, and Launch Capital.
The company intends to use the funds to enha... |
| 21.01.2014 | Petnet Raises $1.125M To Make A Smart Food Dispenser For Your Furry Friends | Los Angeles-based startup Petnet announced today that it has landed a $1.125 million seed round from Grishin Robotics, Kima Ventures, SparkLabs Global Ventures, and Launch Capital. Petnet (a different company from the Australian pet supply ... |
| 21.01.2014 | Bolt Grad Petnet Gobbles Up Over $1M in Seed | The city's only hardware accelerator, Bolt, opened the doors of its Chauncey Street shop to its first batch of startups in late July. Mere months later, the first – and likely not last – company from Bolt's cardinal class has added a few mo... |
| 21.01.2014 | Bolt Looks for Later-Stage Startups as Hardware Heats Up | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
For the past couple of years, entrepreneurs and investors have been warming to the idea that Internet-connected gadgets will spawn some of the next great technology companies.... |
| 05.09.2013 | Dragon Innovation Kicks Off Crowdfunding, 2 Projects Rocket Ahead | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Dragon Innovation, one of the key players in Boston’s new wave of hardware entrepreneurship, is showing off some early success with its new crowdfunding website.
The site went... |
| 08.08.2013 | Dragon Innovation Adds Crowdfunding for Hardware, Raises $2.3M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Dragon Innovation has helped some of the most notable names in the early stage hardware world get their products made. Now, the Boston-based manufacturing consultancy wants to... |
| 31.07.2013 | Bolt Unveils 7 Hardware Startups at Its Boston Accelerator | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Suddenly, the business world is clamoring for hardware startups.
Venture capitalists—last seen stumbling over each other to bankroll high-margin software companies—are publicl... |
| 28.06.2013 | Making hardware is hard — just ask Apple or Samsung | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If Keller Rinaudo is right, a lot of ambitious hardware hackers are about to get a cold, hard smack in the face from reality.
Rinaudo i... |
| 20.06.2013 | 10 Highlights From XSITE 2013: Akamai, Blackjack, Crashlytics, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Digging out from our fifth annual XSITE innovation conference at Babson College yesterday…huge thanks to all of our speakers, sponsors, attendees, and hosts for an inspiring d... |
| 02.06.2013 | Why VCs should love hardware startups | Skip Fleshman is a partner at Asset Management Ventures.
Venture capitalists hate investing in hardware startups for a myriad of reasons. Design and iteration are more difficult. Margins are low. Manufacturing issues are unpredictable. Inve... |
| 02.06.2013 | Why VCs should love hardware startups | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Skip Fleshman is a partner at Asset Management Ventures.
Venture capitalists hate investing in hardware startups for a myriad of reason... |
| 28.02.2013 | Agenda for Mobile Madness on March 19: Athenahealth, Timbre, Twitter, Verizon… | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
We are coming down the home stretch towards Mobile Madness 2013. It’s March tomorrow (eek…I mean, yay).
Luckily the program is all set. We are going from 1:30-5:30 pm, March 1... |
| 26.02.2013 | Bolt Launches to Back Hardware Startups | Bolt, a Boston-based hardware incubator focused on supporting hardware startups, launched with support from from three strategic partners.
Backers include Grishin Robotics, a venture capital firm focused on consumer robotics, Logitech and A... |
| - | Hacking Weather | In weather, data is king. $485 billion of the U.S. economy fluctuates with weather events, and the data provided by weather sensors informs huge industries like insurance, agriculture, broadcast, risk mitigation, consumer and utilities.
Th... |
| - | Hardware в цифрах. Часть 2: Финансирование и производство | Hardware в цифрах. Часть 2: Финансирование и производство
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| - | Hardware-стартапы, вы не можете производить свои продукты как Apple | Hardware-стартапы, вы не можете производить свои продукты как Apple
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В Украине не так много hardware-проектов, хотя их количество со временем растет. В отличие от software-стартапов, сложносте... |
| - | Hardware в цифрах. Часть 1: команда и прототип | Hardware в цифрах. Часть 1: команда и прототип
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| - | Grishin Robotics инвестировал в американский инкубатор Bolt | Основанный гендиректором Mail.ru Group Дмитрием Гришиным венчурный фонд Grishin Robotics вместе c Logitech и разработчиком ПО Autodesk вложил $3,53 млн в американский инкубатор стартапов Bolt. Уточняется, что Grishin Robotics, Logitech и Au... |
