| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.11.2017 | Amazon commits another $100 million to Alexa Fund for international expansion | 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!
Alexa Fund, Amazon’s venture capital fund for inv... |
| 29.11.2017 | Amazon commits another $100 million to Alexa Fund for international expansion | Alexa Fund, Amazon’s venture capital fund for investment in companies that adopt the intelligent assistant into their products, is getting an additional $100 million to support international expansion. Amazon launched the Alexa Fund in June... |
| 19.09.2017 | What working on Pebble taught me about building hardware | Eric Migicovsky Contributor
Eric Migicovsky was the founder and CEO of Pebble Technology and is a visiting partner at Y Combinator. He is a contributor to Hardware Studio, a new resource for hardware creators from Kickstarter, Avnet, and Dr... |
| 18.05.2017 | Kickstarter rounds up partners to support hardware creators | Kickstarter has joined with Avnet and Dragon Innovation to support hardware creators on its crowdfunding platform.
Under the initiative, Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Kickstarter will help prepare creators for manufacturing before they launch crowdf... |
| 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... |
| 04.04.2016 | An insider’s handbook for IoT startups | Ryan Margoles Contributor
Ryan Margoles is the co-founder and CTO of Notion.
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6 Reasons Hardware Is The New Software
Tips are everywhere. There’s an abundance of generic advice available for how to build teams ... |
| 11.02.2016 | 8 Blogs Hardware Startups Should Be Reading | Blogs written for entrepreneurs creating software products seem to be everywhere. It's much harder to find blogs talking about developing a new hardware product.
To succeed with your hardware startup you need to constantly learn from expert... |
| 27.01.2016 | Hardware, Less Hard | How can hardware startups compete in the software-centric startup world?
With iteration time measured in days rather than seconds, the burden of marginal costs, and often unexpected hurdles such as the impact of Chinese New Year, hardware ... |
| 07.10.2015 | The Success Secrets That Helped the 'Best Practicers' Land on the Entrepreneur360 | October 7, 2015 6 min read
Through surveys and available data, we've examined hundreds of small businesses and come away with six archetypal sets of practices and characteristics that we believe are representative of most growth companies o... |
| 23.04.2015 | Super-cute robot bug gets $1.4M to teach kids to code | 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!
Dash Robotics makes small bio-inspired robots tha... |
| 23.04.2015 | Super-cute robot bug gets $1.4M to teach kids to code | Dash Robotics makes small bio-inspired robots that teach kids how to program while they play.
The bots are $50 apiece and come as a sheet of parts that you have to pop out and build yourself, like a model plane. The result is a six-legged p... |
| 10.02.2015 | Advice for Early-Stage Hardware Startups | This is a guest post from Luke Iseman and Jeff Chang.
Hardware Is Easy
As we slog away at our soldering irons, it’s become de rigueur in the early-stage hardware startup world for us to wearily mutter: “Hardware is hard.” Our software-cen... |
| 09.11.2014 | Proxy42 unveils crowdfunding campaign for augmented reality shooter game with unique hardware | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Augmented reality gaming is getting a big endorsement today with the unveiling of Proxy42, an augmented reality gaming and hardware com... |
| 30.10.2014 | Ampy Is A Wearable Spare Battery That Charges As You Move | It was surely only a matter of time before someone thought to capitalize on the current trend for wearables with a battery designed to charge via kinetic energy. And so meet Ampy: a spare battery pack, currently bidding for crowdfunds on Ki... |
| 15.10.2014 | Здесь тебе не интернет: Акселераторы для производственных проектов | Дарья Савостьянова, маркетолог промышленного акселератора «Сталь», написала для ЦП материал о том, чем занимаются подобные проекты, и рассказала о наиболее известных из них.
Дарья Савостьянова
На сегодняшний день формат бизнес-акселератора ... |
| 24.09.2014 | relayr Gets $2.3M To Foster An Internet Of Things App Ecosystem | Berlin-based relayr, maker of the WunderBar, an Internet of Things (IoT) hardware dev kit which resembles a chunky chocolate bar, has closed a $2.3 million seed round, from unnamed U.S. and Switzerland-based investors.
The startup had previ... |
| 23.07.2014 | Ideas to Reality: 5 creative ways to quickly validate your product | Ideas to Reality is an article series where I take a look at easy tools entrepreneurs can use to get their projects up-and-running. In the previous post, I highlighted a bunch of free tools that can help you build a product prototype.
From ... |
| 23.07.2014 | Ideas to Reality: 5 creative ways to quickly validate your product | Ideas to Reality is an article series where I take a look at easy tools entrepreneurs can use to get their projects up-and-running. In the previous post, I highlighted a bunch of free tools that can help you build a product prototype.
From... |
| 07.07.2014 | Tech that wants to save cyclists’ lives: meet the team behind Backtracker | iKubu is a hardware company based in Stellenbosch, South Africa that focuses on building products in the field of radar and computer vision. It’s recently launched a rather savvy commercial product, Backtracker, through the Dragon Innovatio... |
| 07.07.2014 | Tech that wants to save cyclists’ lives: meet the team behind Backtracker | iKubu is a hardware company based in Stellenbosch, South Africa that focuses on building products in the field of radar and computer vision. It’s recently launched a rather savvy commercial product, Backtracker, through the Dragon Innovatio... |
| 01.07.2014 | Backtracker Helps Bikers Keep From Being Rear-Ended | iKubu has created something that just might save a biker’s life. Called the Backtracker, the device notifies you how fast and how close cars are approaching behind you and it reacts by flashing a light and telling the rider they are about t... |
| 29.05.2014 | Spor: Drexel students raising $100K for solar-powered chargers | A trio of Drexel students are raising $100,000 to jumpstart their solar-powered battery charger business.
The Spor charger, the founders say, can soak up power from both sunlight and indoor light, as well as connect with other Spor chargers... |
| 06.04.2014 | As March Madness Winds Down ShotTracker Gears Up To Make Everyone Clutch | In the annals of sports there’s no bigger hero than the clutch shooter, whether it’s Aaron Harrison’s last second heroics to get Kentucky to the NCAA Championship, or the season-long efforts of the NBA’s best.
In an effort to make every wou... |
| 07.02.2014 | Mooshimeter Is A Smarter Multimeter That Works As A Wireless Extension Of Your Smartphone | The presence of Bluetooth LE/4.0 in the latest generations of smartphones and tablets has let to an explosion of hardware/sensor add-ons that extend the capabilities of the mobile devices we all now carry around with us.
The low power wirel... |
| 27.01.2014 | Hardware Crowdfunding Platform, Dragon Innovation, Offers $100K Seed To Projects That Raise $1M | Makers looking to squeeze a little cash from the crowd to get a project off the ground have more choice than ever before about which crowdfunding platform to position their project on. From big names like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, to a the... |
| 27.01.2014 | Dragon Innovation Offers $100K Investment for $1M Crowdfunding Wins | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Crowdfunding campaigns have made it much easier for small companies to corral a bunch of pre-orders from an online fanbase. But it’s not always smooth sailing once the money s... |
| 17.01.2014 | WunderBar Is An Internet Of Things Starter Kit For App Developers | European startup relayr, founded in January last year and currently based at the StartupBootcamp accelerator, has kicked off a crowdfunding campaign for a hardware kit for developers aimed at making it easier for them to experiment with bui... |
| 27.11.2013 | Boston Roundup: Care.com, Sonian, QD Vision, Rest Devices | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
—Care.com, a Waltham, MA-based operator of Web search services for finding babysitters and other personal service providers, has reportedly filed secret paperwork for an IPO. ... |
| 22.10.2013 | ‘Waze for bikes’ Hammerhead doesn’t want you to die while cycling | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
There you are biking through the city, enjoying the exercise and breeze and keeping an eye out for cars, buses, and kamikaze pedestrian... |
| 11.09.2013 | Indiegogo superstar Canary’s lesson to hardware startups: Sell some software, too | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
When Canary launched an Indiegogo campaign for its smart home security device last month, it set out to raise $100,000. Instead, it pul... |
| 05.09.2013 | Dragon Innovation brings the Yoda approach to hardware crowdfunding | For Dragon Innovation, helping hardware makers become legit hardware companies is a bit like teaching them how to walk: It requires a whole lot of hand-holding.
The company, which counts companies like Pebble and MakerBot as its previous tu... |
| 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... |
| 05.09.2013 | Dash Robotics Reveals A DIY High-Speed Running Robot Kit, Which Hobbyists Can Own For Just $65 | Dash Robotics is using crowdfunding to help build its first hobbyist robot for home robotics enthusiast, with the aim of providing advanced tech for very little money thanks to a unique combination of materials, design and manufacturing. Da... |
| 05.09.2013 | Dragon Innovation brings the Yoda approach to hardware crowdfunding | 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!
For Dragon Innovation, helping hardware makers be... |
| 08.08.2013 | Dragon Innovation Snares $2.3M |
BOSTON, MA, Manufacturing services firm, today launched a crowdfunding platform exclusively for hardware companies.
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| 08.08.2013 | Dragon Innovation Closes $2.3M Financing | Dragon Innovation, a Boston, MA- and China-based manufacturing services firm, closed a $2.3m financing.
The round was led by Flybridge Capital Partners and Foundry Group, with participation from The Box Group, Lerer Ventures and Undercurren... |
| 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... |
| 08.08.2013 | Dragon Innovation Raises $2.3 Million To Help Build Hardware Startups | Prepare yourself for an onslaught of small, clever, software driven hardware projects because former members of the iRobot team have just started Dragon Innovation, a manufacturing services and crowdfunding firm that will help small makers ... |
| 01.04.2013 | Dragon Innovation Secures $2.1M |
LEXINGTON, MA, Provider of product development and manufacturing services, has raised $2.1 million of venture capital.
>> Click here for more funding data on Dragon Innovation
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| 07.03.2013 | Got Hardware? Dragon Innovation Helps Big Names Get Built | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A few months before his little startup company became a poster child for the crowdfunding revolution, Eric Migicovsky had one of those moments of serious panic.
He’d been thro... |
| - | Hardware: How to Iterate Fast | How can hardware startups compete in the software-centric startup world?
With iteration time measured in days rather than seconds, the burden of marginal costs, and often unexpected hurdles such as the impact of Chinese New Year, hardware ... |
