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| Sep 23, 2025 | TELO Trucks Raises $20M in Series A Funding | TELO Trucks, a San Carlos, CA-based electric mini truck maker, raised $20M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Yves Behar, and Marc Tarpenning co-founder of Tesla and Venture Partner of Spero Ventures. Additional investment came from ... |
| Jun 14, 2023 | EV startup Telo bets America is ready for a dreamy little pickup | Most trucks today are headed in the wrong direction, metaphorically speaking. They’re far too big and heavy, with shrinking beds and expanding cabins that reflect their turn from a classic workhorse into a status symbol-meets-family car.
Th... |
| Feb 13, 2023 | Nina Montée Karp and Dr. Harvey Karp turned the $1,700 Snoo into the holy grail of parenting. But some say they overhyped the crib's abilities and created a nightmarish corporate culture. | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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The babies in the Snoo's 2019 ads weren't nearly happy enough.
The tots had been photographed fast asleep, strapped into the $1,... |
| Feb 14, 2021 | 8 Breakthrough Products For Homeowners’ Radically Changing Lifestyles | Looking to the future of furniture design, it’s no longer just about esthetics and comfort, but about pieces that support homeowners’ radically changing lifestyles and echo their values. I round up eight game-changing products that show how... |
| Sep 12, 2020 | A design proposal calls for building the world's largest underwater habitat | A rendering of Fabien Cousteau's proposed Proteus underwater habitat.
Yves Béhar and Fuseproject
Fabien Cousteau, grandson of oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, has designed an underwater habitat that, would be the world's largest and most adv... |
| Jun 4, 2019 | Ori Living partners with IKEA to bring robotic furniture to customers by 2020 | Welcome to the robotic bedroom of the future, coming in 2020 to tiny apartments beginning in Hong Kong and Japan, but expanding around the world.
IKEA is now selling robotic furniture that can convert from a storage and seating unit into a ... |
| May 23, 2019 | Canopy’s upscale co-working business adds a new location in SF on the heels of strategic funding | Canopy, an upscale, profitable developer of co-working spaces, has expanded its footprint in San Francisco to a third location on the heels of a strategic financing round.
Co-founded by the product designer Yves Behar; the second-generation... |
| Aug 16, 2018 | This 35-year-old walked away from Google to start a robotics company that's raised $16 million - here's his best advice for building a company in just one year | Cobalt
Erik Schluntz and Travis Deyle (left) are the cofounders of Cobalt.
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Security robotics company Cobalt raised $13 million in a Series A round of financing this year, despite putting together a pitch deck the night before ... |
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| May 31, 2017 | Ori Systems brings the robotic furniture of the future to apartments today | The Jetsons’ fictional (and functional) home of the future is one step closer to reality with the launch of the first product from Ori Systems, an all-in-one robotic dresser, desk and bed product.
Showrooming in luxury real estate developme... |
| Apr 4, 2017 | Can ElliQ the robot combat social isolation in the elderly? | When you think of robots designed to help people, you might think of the role of robotics in caring and customer service roles or companion orientated service robots like Pepper, Nao or even Hasbro’s companion pets. Then more recently there... |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Cobalt takes the wraps off its indoor security robots | Palo Alto-based Cobalt Robotics Inc. today introduced a new line of robot security guards for indoor use. The roving robots use the same kind of components you’d expect in a self-driving car to sense people and problems in a building. Cofou... |
| Jul 21, 2016 | You Can’t Spell Hardware without H-A-R-D | I started my tinkering with hardware first. As a kid I used to trek down to the “electronics bazaar” in New Delhi, known as Lajpat Rai Market, and go store to store to try and find the components I needed for whatever I was building. It was... |
| Mar 24, 2016 | Can technology save us from itself? | Technology has undoubtedly changed the way we live our lives. It’s changed our social habits, it’s changed our relationships and it’s changed the way we access information, and of course the sheer amount of that information. If my 40-year-o... |
| Jul 23, 2014 | Yves Béhar sells his design agency to Chinese PR firm BlueFocus | Industrial design guru Yves Béhar is selling 75 percent of his design firm, Fuseproject, to Chinese conglomerate BlueFocus Communications Group, reports say.
Béhar, who’s worked at Frog design and Lunar Design on projects for Apple and Hewl... |
| Jun 5, 2014 | Smart Garden Sensor Startup, Edyn, Launches Kickstarter | Typically, big data is only found in big land. Commercial farms and huge farms are looking for sensors and software to better manage their fields; but what about the little guys? Today marks the first day of a Kickstarter campaign launch fo... |
| Feb 25, 2014 | Jawbone exec: Startups need designers, not just engineers | Yves Behar
SAN FRANCISCO–While startups are often on the lookout for new engineering talent, renowned hardware designer Yves Behar said that they need to place a similar priority on finding good designers.
As the founder and CEO of fuseproj... |
| Sep 10, 2013 | Soil IQ Makes A Smart Probe For Your Garden | Soil IQ is a company that’s bringing the “Internet of things” trend to urban and rural farming.
They’re building a probe that streams soil fertility and weather data back to a paired app. Founded by a Princeton grad and soil scientist who h... |
| May 9, 2013 | Ouya raises $15M from Kleiner Perkins and Mayfield and delays launch | Ouya is just a kid on the block alongside the game consoles from Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony. But it’s graduating to a higher level today as the maker of the $99 Android game console is announcing that it has raised $15 million from the w... |
| May 9, 2013 | Ouya raises $15M from Kleiner Perkins and Mayfield and delays launch | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Ouya is just a kid on the block alongside the game consoles from Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony. But it’s graduating to a higher level t... |
| Nov 14, 2012 | Booting Up: Etsy’s Closing in on 100M. Products Sold | Mr. Dickerson. (Twitter.com)
Worst nightmare for workday Skype gossipers: It appears until very recently there was a vulnerability that made it possible for anyone who knows your email to hijack your account. UPDATED: Skype says it’s been r... |
| Sep 30, 2010 | Fuseproject founder to designers: To beat Apple, don’t be Apple | Apple’s design focus is about as sharp as it comes, with pretty much every aspect of the company dominated by how the final product will feel in a customer’s hand. That’s the secret to Apple’s success — and that’s the strategy competing bus... |
| Jul 24, 2010 | NY, NJ Parking Lots Sign Up to Charge Electric Vehicles | The Car Charging Group, Inc. (CCGI) this weekend announced a partnership with LAZ Parking in New York and New Jersey to begin outfitting its facilities with smart, electric vehicle charging stations.
The Miami-based CCGI installs and mainta... |
| Nov 21, 2001 | Time's Inventions Of The Year | Mike Lohse writes “Time Magazine profiles their best invention picks of 2001. Among my favorites are the flying boats, the hydrogen powered scooter, StreetCarver the optically guided bus, not to mention the artificial organs…Good smorgasbor... |