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| Jun 3, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - June 3, 2015 | Fourkites raised $1.25M; Plot.ly landed $30M; Mic nabbed $17M
Chicago-based FourKites, a provider of trucking logistics for shipping companies and freight brokers, landed $1.25 million in seed funding, its first round since being founded in... |
| Jun 3, 2015 | Force is Strong With Sphero: $45M in Funding from Mercato, Disney | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Sphero, maker of a line of robotics products that can be controlled with a mobile phone app, gained fame beyond its toy-like devices after news broke last month that the compa... |
| Jun 3, 2015 | Sphero Secures $45M in Funding | Sphero, a Boulder, Colorado-based developer of connected play toys, secured an additional $45m in funding.
The round was led by Mercato Partners with participation from a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company and other strategic investors. ... |
| Jun 2, 2015 | Star Wars BB-8 Designer Sphero Raises Another $45M From Mercato, Disney And More | As anticipation continues to rise for the new Star Wars film to open at the end of this year, a hardware startup central to the making of one of the characters has raised a new round of funding. Sphero, makers of the eponymous spherical rob... |
| Apr 20, 2015 | Make Your Own BB-8 Droid From A Sphero | Word around the outer rim is Ortobix, the company behind the Sphero robotic ball, helped create the rolltastic BB-8 Droid from the upcoming Star Wars movie. And ever since BB-8 rolled across the stage at last week’s Star Wars convention, I’... |
| Feb 25, 2015 | Сергей Топоров, LETA Capital: Как продать инвестору робота и заработать на нём Статьи редакции | Старший менеджер по инвестициям фонда LETA Capital Сергей Топоров написал для ЦП колонку о том, почему стартапам, занимающимся роботами, сложно убедить инвесторов вложить свои средства в их проекты и как представить разработку так, чтобы уб... |
| Jan 19, 2015 | Why have one robot when you can have 100? | Everybody loves robots, but most people only have one, if even that. But a Chinese startup thinks you should be able to have as many as you want — all in a single product.
That’s the premise behind CellRobot, a customizable, reconfigurable ... |
| Jan 19, 2015 | Why have one robot when you can have 100? | 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!
Everybody loves robots, but most people only have... |
| Dec 3, 2014 | eBay Debuts “Innovators Collective,” A Tech-Focused Section Featuring New Lifestyle Products, Electronics And More | With only weeks of holiday shopping remaining, eBay today has rolled out a new product category on its U.S. marketplace which features a collection lifestyle products and other items from companies ranging from emerging small businesses fre... |
| Nov 26, 2014 | Watch a Microsoft engineer use Kinect and a Sphero to simulate telekinesis | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Telekinesis, defined as the psychic ability allowing one to influence a physical system without physical interaction, lives largely in ... |
| Nov 23, 2014 | Jumpy Is An Open-Platform Smartwatch Just For Kids | Smartwatches for children hold a lot of allure and at least one analysis firm believes they will help drive the smartwatch market to 373 million devices shipped in 2020, up from 15 million this year. Kids get a shiny new gadget, while anxio... |
| Oct 15, 2014 |
Disney Accelerator Shows Off First Class Of Startups
| The Disney Accelerator, the startup accelerator sponsored by Walt Disney and being run by TechStars, had its demo day Tuesday, showing off the nine companies to emerge out of the accelerator. Among the announcements at the demo day were the... |
| Oct 2, 2014 | Colorado Tech Companies Rank High on Outside’s Best Workplace List | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Thirteen Colorado-based tech companies can take a bow after earning a spot on Outside Magazine’s Best Places to Work List. Of course, the celebration might have to wait until ... |
| Sep 4, 2014 | Sphero Finally Gets A Friend With Ollie, The Tubular Smartphone-Controlled Robot | Today, Orbotix (the makers behind Sphero) is introducing its second robot alongside the circular Sphero to go faster and jump higher. Folks, meet the Ollie by Sphero.
Originally called the 2B, the Ollie can go about 2x faster than the Spher... |
| Jul 18, 2014 | Colorado Startups Raise $151M in Q2 as National VC Investments Surge | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The amount venture capitalists are betting on startups is approaching highs last seen during the dot-com era, and Colorado’s emerging companies continue to hold their own.
Col... |
| Jul 1, 2014 | Phonotonic Is A Nifty Music Device That Turns Movement Into Music | Meet Phonotonic, a new music device that you can back on Kickstarter. What’s interesting is that you don’t need to have any actual music knowledge to play with Phonotonic — it’s all about movements.
When I first saw a demo of Phonotonic, I ... |
| May 5, 2014 | Orbotix Raises $15.5M to Develop Next Generation of Toys | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Orbotix remains on a roll, announcing today that it has closed a $15.5 million funding round that the company will use to continue developing the next generation of high-tech ... |
| May 5, 2014 | Orbotix Raises $15.5M | Orbotix, a Boulder, Colorado-based developer of connected toys, raised $15.5m in funding.
Backers included Shea Ventures, Grishin Robotics, and Foundry Group.
The company intends to use the funds to continue to develop the products and the ... |
| May 2, 2014 | Sphero And Ollie Robotic Toy Maker Orbotix Has Raised Another $20M, Say Sources | Orbotix, the company that makes fast-moving, robotic toys that you control with smartphone apps, has raised another $20 million in funding, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed with a reliable source. This brings the total raised by maker o... |
| Jan 8, 2014 | Three cool robot toys that children’s hospitals should know about | Jill Gilbert, the organizer of the Digital Health Summit, pulled off a very brave and very creative show last night at the International CES. In the pool at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, she organized a robot fashion show. The event had... |
| Jan 5, 2014 | Orbotix Announces The $99 Sphero 2B, A New Super-Fast, Programmable Robot | Sphero, as the name implies, was a robotic sphere. Now Orbotix, the makers of this beloved ball, have decided to elongate the it into a tube (a cylinder, really), drop the price to $99, and make one of the funnest little toys I’ve ever seen... |
| Jan 5, 2014 | Orbotix rolls out its next robotic toy: the Sphero 2B, which resembles a rolling dumbbell | Orbotix took the robot toy world by storm when it launched its Sphero rolling sphere in late 2011. After adding a revamped version last summer, it’s now unveiling its new Sphero 2B today with the newest connected toy — and it looks like a w... |
| Jan 5, 2014 | Orbotix rolls out its next robotic toy: the Sphero 2B, which resembles a rolling dumbbell | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Orbotix took the robot toy world by storm when it launched its Sphero rolling sphere in late 2011. After adding a revamped version last... |
| Dec 20, 2013 | Cohen Likely to Keep Aim on “Angel-Scale” Deals with new $150M Fund | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The evolution of Techstars CEO David Cohen from an entrepreneur “vaguely dissatisfied with the way angel investing worked” to a full-fledged venture capitalist has taken anoth... |
| Oct 3, 2013 | With $30M in Tank, UAV Maker 3D Robotics Gets Ready for Take-Off | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
After raising $30 million in a Series B round of venture funding announced last week, 3D Robotics is ready to really get its drone business off the ground.
The four-year-old s... |
| Sep 23, 2013 | TECTEC Is Uniting Barcelona’s Digital Makers | TECTEC is back for the 2nd edition of their event series aimed at breaking down the barriers between hackers, entrepreneurs, investors and key influencers in Barcelona. This Thursday, September 26th, Creative HotHouse will host a wonderful ... |
| Aug 14, 2013 | Orbotix Rolls Out Next-Gen Sphero, Considers Possible New Directions | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The ball, reinvented, has itself been reinvented—and that means changes could be on the horizon for Orbotix, the Boulder, CO, startup that took the ball and put a robot inside... |
| May 14, 2013 | Orbotix CEO: $4M Round to Fund Sphero’s Holiday Shopping Season Push | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Orbotix got a little boost last week in its quest to make the Sphero robotic ball one of the must-have gadgets of 2013.
CEO Paul Berberian said the $4 million equity financing... |
| May 13, 2013 | 11 Startups Get Down to Business in TechStars’ Latest Boulder Class | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Four startups from the Boulder/Denver area are among the 11 companies that will be part of this summer’s TechStars program in Boulder.
TechStars announced the members of the c... |
| Apr 3, 2013 | Rockstar Entrepreneurs at Big Kansas City Share Valuable Lessons for Startups | The inaugural Big Kansas City, a two-and-a-half-day conference on innovation and entrepreneurship, was held recently at the National Airline History Museum in Kansas City. I was there to take part in celebrating the entrepreneurial ecosyste... |
| Apr 1, 2013 | April Fools 2013: The Ultimate Round-Up | Happy April First, errybody! Yes, that’s right, we’ve reached that special, inimitable time of year. April Fools Day 2013. At TechCrunch, we have a long history of taking April Fools seriously. Deadly, deadly seriously. So, we’ve taken it u... |
| Mar 7, 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... |
| Feb 25, 2013 | Y Combinator-Backed Thalmic Labs Introduces MYO, A $149 Armband For Gesture Control | As stuff like Google Glass becomes mainstream, we’re going to see a lot more wearable computing devices around. But one thing that isn’t clear is how we’ll control them. One idea is to use gesture control, which would enable users to commun... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | Startup-advising robot dino FAKE GRIMLOCK moves to books to terrorize us in print (Q & A) | 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!
Crazy robot dinosaur FAKE GRIMLOCK is known for g... |
| Jan 11, 2013 | 16 Gadgets You Might Actually Buy from CES | The International CES conference is wrapping up in Las Vegas today. Since the “C” stands for consumer, after all, we thought we'd take a look at the coolest gadgets that you might actually buy.
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Parrot: A flying drone used for fun or for... |
| Jan 10, 2013 | Sphero And Augmented Reality Are Made For Each Other | Sphero had a big 2012, but it’s clear that 2013 will be even bigger for the company. This week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the makers of a phone-friendly robotic ball launched a handful of augmented reality games, expandi... |
| Nov 16, 2012 | Sphero’s New Augmented Reality App Allows You To Walk A Beaver Around Your House | Meet Sharky the Beaver, Sphero‘s first augmented reality character for their little robotic spheres. Over the past few months, Orbotix has been developing many new ways to use the toy. With this new app, the company is making its first step... |
| Jun 29, 2012 | Orbotix’s Sphero Is Rolling Into An Apple Store Near You | It’s been a few months since Orbotix’s pearlescent smart ball finally started making its way out into the real world, and the team behind it has just announced that another major retailer will be carrying their slightly-pointless gadget.
Mo... |
| May 22, 2012 | The maker movement starts to attract venture capitalists’ interest | Every year, my family looks forward to Maker Faire, a family-friendly celebration of DIY mayhem, with eager anticipation. But when venture capitalists get involved in the maker movement, you know something new is afoot.
One such VC is Brad ... |
| Apr 25, 2012 | Can President Obama Drive A Sphero Robotic Ball? Yes He Can! [Video] | The Sphero is a clever little gadget. It’s instantly addictive made possible by an incredibly intuitive control scheme. In short the little robotic ball is controlled by simply drawing on the connected smartphone’s screen. Users generally g... |
| Mar 15, 2012 | Gary Sharma’s SXSW 2012 Highlights: Jay-Z, Leo DiCaprio, Pool Parties, Grilled Cheese Eating Contests & More | Storyful's Erica Berger, ABC News' Maya Baratz, The Today Show's Rina Raphael and Fashism's Ashley Granata & Brooke Moreland hanging out at TheDaily's now epic Pool Party @ SXSW 2012. (Photo: Nick McGlynn)
This is a guest post from Gary... |
| Feb 5, 2012 | In The Future, The Business Founder Will Not Be Ignored | Editor’s note: Adam Rodnitzky is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Favo.rs. He programmed his first startup using ColdFusion in 1999. Rodnitzky is based in San Francisco, and you can follow him on Twitter @rodtwitzky.
The entrepreneur... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | The Future of Fun: An Interview With Sphero CEO Paul Berberian | Blank slate has never been so colorful.
At last year's SXSW, Tech Cocktail covered a new robo-ball-toy called Sphero. The robotic ball, controlled by your smartphone, puts a heavy emphasis on design. While the ball's clear exterior rotates ... |
| Jan 12, 2012 | Top 10 start-up logos | It’s the most visible, striking aspect of your business. The thing that your customers will see more than any other, which you hope you will be plastered approvingly across billboards and the internet in double-quick time.
Given a logo’s pr... |
| Jan 10, 2012 | CES Day 2 was full of smart TVs, super-thin Ultrabooks, and a tweet choir (video) | While Sunday was the unofficial start to CES 2012, the real fun began on Monday with press conferences and announcements from heavy hitters like LG, Intel, Sharp, Samsung, Nvidia, Sony and Microsoft.
At the end of that incredibly busy day, ... |
| Dec 19, 2011 | Review: The Sphero, A Ball With Personality | The first time I was chased around a room by a glowing, buzzing ball I was in college and I had just come home from a rave. The last time was when I opened the Sphero and set it loose on my rug.
The Sphero is a ball with a brain. Designed b... |
| Sep 19, 2011 | Orbotix Wants Sphero Beta Testers Before The Holidays Hit | Everyone’s favorite smartphone-controlled robotic ball got a minor facelift when we saw it last, but it may need just a bit more polish before it officially gets pushed out the door. That’s why Orbotix has quietly put out a call for private... |
| Apr 7, 2011 | Orbotix Closes $5M Series B Financing | Orbotix, a Boulder, CO-based company that has created a playful robotic ball (Sphero) controlled by smartphones, closed a $5m Series B financing.
Investors include Foundry Group and Highway 12 Ventures.
In conjunction with the funding, Mark... |
| Apr 7, 2011 | Orbotix Scores $5 Million. Because You All Want Smartphone-Controlled Robotic Balls | Exclusive – Boulder-based smart toy company Orbotix has raised $5 million in Series B financing from Foundry Group and Highway 12 Ventures as it prepares for a Fall launch of its Sphero, a robotic ball that can be controlled by iOS and Andr... |
| Испытай телекинез... с помощью Kinect | Телекинез (способность, позволяющая передвигать предметы без физического взаимодействия) живет в основном в мире научной фантастики. Однако технологии позволяют приблизиться к нему. Например, инженер компании Microsoft Майк Толти (Mike Taul... |
| Three cool robot toys that children’s hospitals should know about | Only at CES do runway shows feature robots #CES2014 #dhces pic.twitter.com/iZcV39coER
— Halle Tecco (@halletecco) January 8, 2014
Jill Gilbert, the organizer of the Digital Health Summit, pulled off a very brave and very creative show last ... |