| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.11.2017 | The Loop: How a gadget entrepreneur hopes to beat tech giants in the hardware game | Launching a new gadget in this era of consumer electronics is both seductive and scary. While the changing economics of manufacturing and the explosion of connectivity has created a massive opportunity for hardware startups, tech giants hav... |
| 20.11.2017 | The Loop: How a gadget entrepreneur hopes to beat tech giants in the hardware game | 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!
Launching a new gadget in this era of consumer el... |
| 17.08.2017 | The Road Map to a Corporate Accelerator | In the past, startups and corporations were very much separate. While corporations maintained the status quo, developing million dollar deals for products everyone already has, startups were the kings of innovation, creating brand new techn... |
| 24.02.2017 | Any headphones can be Bluetooth headphones with Jack | When Apple decided to strip its flagship phones of the headphone jack, certain people were angry. Those relying on the headphone jack for non-music things were grumpy, but so were those of us who had recently dropped hundreds of dollars on ... |
| 07.02.2017 | Hardware Startups Accelerator makerSeed Set to Launch in Dallas | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Dallas—A new accelerator for hardware innovation is being hatched in Texas.
MakerSeed, which will be based at the University of Texas at Dallas, will focus on student startups... |
| 03.02.2017 | 6 Accelerators to Watch Out for in 2017 | When it comes to success in the business world, startups get all the glory. Whether their innovative products have transformed a struggling industry or their fascinating new software has created a new means of doing business, startups are l... |
| 03.11.2016 | Term Sheet — Thursday, November 3 | Et cetera
A few brief notes today…
It’d be easy to blame the election for the slow-down—investors often tend to take a wait-and-see approach—but PitchBook attributes the lag to market fundamentals that have been going on since before this e... |
| 02.11.2016 | Highway1 gets new leadership as co-founder Brady Forrest moves into an advisor role | There are leadership changes afoot at Highway1, the hardware accelerator arm of PCH.
Co-founder Brady Forrest is stepping down from his role leading the accelerator, though he’ll be staying on as an advisor.
Brady says he’ll be focusing on ... |
| 02.11.2016 | Ignite co-founder Brady Forrest to leave Highway1 hardware startup accelerator after three-year run | Brady Forrest of Highway1 at the 2015 GeekWire Summit.
San Francisco-based hardware startup accelerator Highway1, part of custom hardware company PCH, announced today that Brady Forrest will be leaving his position there. Forrest has led Hi... |
| 31.10.2016 | Primo Toys rolls out Cubetto, a wooden robot that teaches kids to code | A startup called Primo Toys today began online and retail sales of its latest educational product, the Cubetto, a programmable wooden robot for kids as young as 3.
The London startup, which is a graduate of the PCH Highway 1 accelerator and... |
| 25.10.2016 | Loop is a dedicated video streaming and sharing device that lets you make video calls | Loop is launching today to make your home video life easier. The device serves as a video communication device, family media player, voice-and-gesture-controlled smart screen, and video-sharing hub. It is targeted as a kitchen screen or as ... |
| 25.10.2016 | Loop is a dedicated video streaming and sharing device that lets you make video calls | 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!
Loop is launching today to make your home video l... |
| 25.10.2016 | Loop brings retro-styled entertainment to the grandparental generation | Content is consumed from the big screen in the corner and you’re probably on your smartphone morning, noon and night. Cramming itself into the gap in-between is Loop, a retro-looking device aimed at a generation that hasn’t quite embraced t... |
| 20.05.2016 | Indiegogo improves crowdfunding with a stamp of approval for hardware projects | One of the biggest challenges of a hardware crowdfunding campaign is delivering in a timely fashion. Indiegogo knows that better than most, and is teaming up with Arrow Electronics to help entrepreneurs deliver products through engineering ... |
| 18.05.2016 | The best of Highway1’s hardware accelerator demo day | Highway1 is a rare breed of accelerator that has realized the companies that most need help are the folks who are doing the startup thing with hardware products. In the final-version-is-final world of hardware startups, the companies passin... |
| 11.05.2016 | OBE Wants To Dress The Fashionable VR Gamer | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Well before the debut of a slew of virtual reality headsets for consumers this year, game makers and other tech companies were getting ready to feed the expected demand for VR... |
| 24.10.2015 | Highway1 Celebrates Second Anniversary by Increasing Investment | Hardware accelerator Highway1 made a big announcement on their second anniversary. They've upped their investment to $100,000 for 8% equity or $50,000 for 5% equity.
Brady Forrest, vice president of Highway1, said this to say about the prog... |
| 20.10.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | 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!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 20.10.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Uber may have a new rival in China, as Yidao Yongche to raise $700M
China ride-hailing app Yidao Yongche said that a unit of... |
| 20.10.2015 | Highway1 raises investment in its hardware accelerator startups to $100K | Hardware accelerator Highway1 has opened up applications for its sixth batch, but this time there’s a twist: the organization is increasing its investment from $50,000 to $100,000 for each participating startup.
From now until November 16, ... |
| 29.09.2015 | SA start-up in Silicon Valley coup | - |
| 27.08.2015 | Roundup: Uber Clears $1 Billion for Expansion Efforts in China | We've got funding for a few smaller stage startup companies today, which is always good to see. However, the news taking the cake this morning is Uber's $1 billion in funding to expand efforts into China – it's absolutely massive and pushes... |
| 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... |
| 04.08.2015 | GeekWire Summit: Dave McClure and Brady Forrest join the lineup for our biggest event ever | The GeekWire Summit is less than two months away, on Oct. 1 and 2 in Seattle, and today we’re excited to announce two fantastic additions to the lineup: Outspoken Silicon Valley investor Dave McClure of 500 Startups will appear in a joint s... |
| 21.07.2015 | ‘Bazillion Dollar Club’ sneak peek: Syfy show stars Dave McClure and Brady Forrest | What happens when a software accelerator and hardware accelerator join forces in search of a new wave of breakthrough startups?
That’s the premise of “The Bazillion Dollar Club,” an upcoming show on Syfy that features hard-charging Silicon ... |
| 21.07.2015 | Trailer: ‘Bazillion Dollar Club’, a new Syfy show about Silicon Valley startups | 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!
Syfy is gearing up for the debut of its next show... |
| 21.07.2015 | Welcome, My Friends, to The Bazillion Dollar Club | Brady Forrest and Dave McClure have built arguably two of the best accelerators in the US, if not the world, in Highway1 and 500 Startups respectively. Both accelerators offer aggressive accelerator programs designed to take raw, entreprene... |
| 14.05.2015 | Peeple Launches Peephole Camera on Kickstarter | Peeple, a smart camera that attaches to the peephole of a front door, just launched its Kickstarter campaign today and is close to meeting its $50,000 goal. |
| 17.04.2015 | Navdy’s $20M for Heads-Up Displays: Why It Raised More Than Expected | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The things that can distract a driver’s attention are innumerable, from crying children to a spilled soda.
Navdy, a San Francisco-based hardware and software maker, believes i... |
| 15.04.2015 | The Highway1 Spring 2015 Class is Their Best Funded Class to Date | Highway1, PCH’s hardware accelerator, recently announced the new class of startups in their intensive four month program which began in February. The Spring 2015 class will be the first to work in Highway1’s newly opened 10,000 square foot ... |
| 02.03.2015 | Podo’s Camera Turns Any Surface Into A Photo Booth | Since smartphones put a decent camera in nearly everyone’s pocket, it’s become the norm to take pictures with friends when going out, because you might as well capture the memory.
In some settings, that might mean asking a stranger to take ... |
| 17.12.2014 | PCH and Highway 1 Host Demo Day for 11 New Hardware Graduates | On December 9 PCH and Highway 1 held their third Demo Day at an invitation-only event in San Francisco. Highway 1, a division of PCH headed by Brady Forrest, is a hardware accelerator focused on aspiring entrepreneurs and inventors with a h... |
| 09.12.2014 | CoolChip Technologies Is Redesigning The Humble Computer Fan | If there’s one part of a PC that doesn’t get enough love, it’s the fan. These small plastic spinning pieces cost almost nothing and keep hundreds or thousands of dollars of advanced technology from cooking itself.
The only time anyone talks... |
| 25.11.2014 | Hollywood Comes Back To Silicon Valley With A New SyFy Reality TV Show | Hollywood just can’t get enough of geeks coding in hoodies. Following the successful first season of Mike Judge’s HBO brilliant farce Silicon Valley, NBC Universal techie network SyFy will try to show what being inside the tech bubble is re... |
| 21.11.2014 | Акселераторы для «железных» стартапов: что это такое и как в них попасть | Редактор Fastcolabs Люк Дормел написал колонку о том, чего стоит ждать от акселераторов для стартапов, которые производят оборудование или гаджеты. Сотрудники магазина Madrobots перевели её для ЦП.
Для предпринимателей, которые создают разл... |
| 12.11.2014 | FinTech disruption: meet a new class of innovators | This sponsored post is produced by Yodlee Interactive.
A lot of things move fast in the financial industry. Now, innovation can be counted among them.
Tech entrepreneurs have begun to challenge the financial status quo by building products ... |
| 12.11.2014 | Mobile First Development is Shifting Paradigms | Think for a minute about all the different services you used that are based in a web application. Brady Forrest, VP of Highway1, and Matt Galligan, founder of Circa, asked us this question at this year’s Tech Cocktail Celebrate Conference d... |
| 29.10.2014 | When Seeking Corporate Funding or Partnership, Don’t Lose Sight of Your Startup Vision [VIDEO] | At this year's Tech Cocktail Celebrate Conference, there was a lot of focus on how public and private entities can support the development of startup communities. In one particular panel, titled “Corporations Embracing Startup Communities,”... |
| 15.10.2014 | Incubated: Highway1 Takes Hardware Startups From Prototype To Production | A few years ago, consumer electronics specialist PCH International decided that it wanted to help the burgeoning ecosystem of hardware startups that has emerged. To do that, it created Highway1, an accelerator focused specifically on guidin... |
| 11.09.2014 | Entering a startup pitch contest? TechCrunch Disrupt judge Brady Forrest offers tips on how to win | Brady Forrest
SAN FRANCISCO — As the head of Pacific Coast Highway’s Highway1 accelerator for hardware startups, Brady Forrest knows a thing or two about how to pull off a successful pitch.
GeekWire caught up with him after his judging stin... |
| 08.09.2014 | PCH’s Liam Casey On The “Renaissance Of Prototyping” | Liam Casey is best known as “Mr. China,” the founder and CEO of PCH, which sources, designs and manufacturers custom hardware for Fortune 500 companies and startups in Shenzhen. Before founding PCH in 1996, however, he spent 10 years in the... |
| 14.08.2014 | Heads-Up Display Navdy Hits $1M In Pre-Orders During First Week | Navdy, the voice and gesture-controlled heads-up display that wants to keep your eyes on the road, hit $1 million in pre-orders in its first week of the company’s pre-order campaign.
Doug Simpson, CEO and founder of Navdy, says the response... |
| 29.07.2014 | Hardware startup Birdi secures $700K as it relocates to San Francisco | Is the smoke in your kitchen just burning cookies? No problem (unless you wanted cookies). With a new device you can shut the alarm off without even going to the smoke alarm. Just do it over your smartphone. (But seriously: don’t burn the c... |
| 08.05.2014 | Highway 1 Is Ramping Up Their Search For Startups With $50,000 In Seed Money | Brady Forrest’s Highway1 is looking for a few good hardware startups. The accelerator that brought us LittleBits and the Metawatch are working on their Fall 2014 program and they’ve increased their seed investment amount from $20,000 to $50... |
| 01.04.2014 | Krablr Raises $5 Million From Sequoia, Scranton Angels | Krablr, a real-time crab pricing engine for amateur fishermen, has raised $5 million from Sequoia with Strumpo Kildare and Scranton Angels as secondary investors. The company, founded in 2013 by Stanford alums Wilson Poney and Paul Paulson ... |
| 23.01.2014 | PCH International Acquires ShopLocket To “Close The Loop” For Hardware Startups | Toronto-based startup ShopLocket, an e-commerce platform originally designed to let anyone sell anything from a single item to a line of goods quickly and easily via their existing presence on the web, has been acquired by an unusual suitor... |
| 08.01.2014 | Ringly: wearable tech startup from Christina Mercando to keep it simple | Ringly’s first device will be very simple, by design. It will be a notification device.
Founder Christina Mercando doesn’t want to cram more functionality into the first product. She isn’t running a tech company, after all, Ringly aims to b... |
| 20.12.2013 | Lessons from Highway1: Brady Forrest’s tips for fledgling hardware startups | Brady Forrest has a unique perspective on the world of hardware these days as the leader of Highway1, a hardware startup incubator in San Francisco created by the product development and supply chain company PCH International.
Forrest, the ... |
| 13.12.2013 | Birdi Will Warn You When You’re Breathing Nasty Air | Although the Chinese government believes that smog “unifies people, makes China more equal, and makes people funnier,” we all know it also can kill you. That’s why Birdi is so interesting. It’s a dedicated air quality sensor that hides out ... |
| 05.11.2013 | PCH International’s Highway 1 Is Looking For A Few Good Hardware Startups | Highway 1, an incubator/accelerator run by Brady Forrest and underwritten by electronics powerhouse PCH International, is beginning its Spring Applications process and will close applications after TC’s Hardware Battlefield in Las Vegas.
“O... |
