Nextbit

https://www.nextbit.com/

Last activity: 13.08.2024

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Categories: DesignElectronicsPhoneSpace

Introducing Robin, the first Android phone that makes running out of space history. Unlocked SIM.
Unlockable bootloader. Bold design. https://nextbit.com/

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Overview

Location

United States, California, San Francisco

Employees

51-200

Total raised

$18M

Founded date

2013

Funding Rounds 1

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Aug 9, 2024	Nova Launcher, savior of cruft-filled Android phones, is on life support	Enlarge Nova Launcher reader comments 136 Back in July 2022, when mobile app metrics firm Branch acquired the popular and well-regarded Nova Launcher for Android, the app's site put up one of those self-directed FAQ posts about it. Under th...
Feb 1, 2017	Term Sheet — Wednesday, February 1	BLURRED LINES, TRANSITIONS, ACCELERATORS Oh SNAP: For the rest of the week, the tech press will be hitting refresh on the SEC’s website waiting for the Snap S-1. Today I’ll be doing so from the company’s hometown of Los Angeles, in a room o...
Jan 31, 2017	Lifestyle Brand for Gamers Razer Acquires Kickstarter Success & Robin Smartphone Creator Nextbit	Lifestyle brand for gamers, Razer, announced on Monday it acquired Kickstarter alum, Nextbit. The company is known for securing over $1.3 million through the crowdfunding giant’s platform for smartphone, Robin. Sharing details about the acq...
Jan 30, 2017	Razer acquires Nextbit, the startup behind the Robin smartphone	Three months after acquiring iconic audio tech company THX, Razer is making another move to expand its business beyond hardware and software for the gaming community. The company has acquired Nextbit, the startup behind the Robin smartphone...
Oct 7, 2016	Nextbit CTO sees Google Pixel unlimited full-resolution photo storage as ‘validation’	Nextbit, the startup behind the Android-based Robin smartphone that syncs apps and photos online to prevent users from running out of storage, told VentureBeat in an email today that it views the Google Pixel phones’ promise of unlimited fu...
Oct 7, 2016	Nextbit CTO sees Google Pixel unlimited full-resolution photo storage as ‘validation’	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Nextbit, the startup behind the Android-based Robin smartphone that syncs apps and photos online to prevent users from running out of s...
Jun 19, 2016	Nextbit Robin Owners Can Now Join The Smartphone Maker's Beta Tester Program: Here's How	Sumit Passary, Tech Times 19 June 2016, 09:06 am Nextbit has announced that Robin mobile phone owners can join the beta tester program. Being a part of the beta tester program means that Nextbit Robin owners will be able to test the experim...
Jun 8, 2016	Nextbit Robin Gets $100 Off On Amazon Again: Cloud Smartphone Now Available At $299	Vincent Lanaria, Tech Times 08 June 2016, 09:06 am The Nextbit Robin is currently on sale at Amazon for only $299. That's 25 percent off the original price, making it a good deal for anyone who is looking to get the cloud-based smartphone. ...
Feb 22, 2016	Nextbit Robin review: Cloud aside, a sleek and capable phone at a surprisingly low price	Today’s mobile landscape is dominated by a handful of companies –Samsung, Apple, and Huawei — making it exceedingly difficult for a new company to generate the capital and the buzz necessary to compete. That’s why Nextbit, a small company f...
Feb 22, 2016	Nextbit Robin review: Cloud aside, a sleek and capable phone at a surprisingly low price	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Today’s mobile landscape is dominated by a handful of companies –Samsung, Apple, and Huawei — making it exceedingly difficult for a new...
Feb 18, 2016	NextBit Robin Review: An Aesthetic Escape	And the heavenly hosts of mobile declared, “At last a phone that isn’t just a boring black rectangle.” This smartphone has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808, 3GB of LPDDR3 memory, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac [2.4 and 5 GHz dual-band], with Bluetooth 4.0...
Dec 28, 2015	15 interesting startups to watch in 2016	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. As we usher in another year, we brace for the next wave of innovation, disruption, consolidation, and dissolution. What will be the nex...
Dec 28, 2015	15 interesting startups to watch in 2016	As we usher in another year, we brace for the next wave of innovation, disruption, consolidation, and dissolution. What will be the next big thing that everyone talks about? I’ve been asking around and looking at companies, trends, and what...
Dec 26, 2015	Japan’s Dentsu Ventures invests in health tracking lab-in-a-box developer Cue	(The Bridge) – Dentsu Ventures, the corporate venture capital of Japanese ad agency Dentsu, announced today that it has invested an undisclosed sum in San Diego-based Cue, the startup developing a health tracking device under the same name....
Dec 26, 2015	Japan’s Dentsu Ventures invests in health tracking lab-in-a-box developer Cue	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! (The Bridge) – Dentsu Ventures, the corporate ven...
Nov 17, 2015	Why Nextbit's Robin Smartphone Has Already Won Asia	When Nextbit first launched Robin, the company didn’t expect its cloud-first smartphone to reach half of its $1 million goal within an hour and with such a global response. Despite only putting out their campaign in English, fanatics in Asi...
Sep 17, 2015	Introducing Disrupt TV Live From Disrupt SF	We’re just a week away from TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015, and the TechCrunch video team has a packed schedule: broadcasting interviews, updates and all sorts of other great startup action live from the exhibit hall floor. Disrupt TV kicked of...
Sep 2, 2015	Nextbit's Robin Is A Smarter Smartphone That Has More Data Than You'd Ever Need	Varun Nayar, Tech Times 02 September 2015, 04:09 pm San Francisco-based company Nextbit is a no more than a small group of self-described “rebels who want to free people from the limits of today’s mobile technology,” but it seems they’re on...
Sep 1, 2015	Nextbit unveils $400 cloud-first Robin phone	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. San Francisco-based Nextbit Tuesday took the wraps off its new “cloud first” Android phone, called Robin. The $400 Android (5.1.1) devi...
Aug 24, 2015	Nextbit’s ex-Apple, Google, and HTC designers drop hints about mysterious new Android ‘cloud phone’	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Normally when some new phone maker startup pops its head up, we sigh and maybe feel a tinge of sympathy for another young company enter...
Aug 24, 2015	Nextbit’s ex-Apple, Google, and HTC designers drop hints about mysterious new Android ‘cloud phone’	Normally when some new phone maker startup pops its head up, we sigh and maybe feel a tinge of sympathy for another young company entering a brutally competitive business. But Nextbit has managed to drum up some real interest in media and m...
Aug 12, 2015	Former Google And HTC Employees Are Launching A Nextbit Smartphone Sept. 1	Laura Rosenfeld, Tech Times 12 August 2015, 11:08 am Today's smartphone market is saturated with the biggest names in tech, all trying to one-up each other to reign supreme. How could a startup even think of entering something like that? We...
Oct 27, 2014	Nextbit unwraps products for creating 'cloud-devices'	You start playing a game on your tablet, but then your ride shows up. Grabbing your smartphone, you continue playing the game where you left off. That vision of a seamless transition between devices is being demonstrated by the startup Next...
Oct 27, 2014	Nextbit unwraps products for creating 'cloud-devices'	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! You start playing a game on your tablet, but then...
Oct 16, 2014	Hundreds Protest At San Francisco City Hall After Soccer Conflict With Dropbox, Airbnb Employees	A week after a video of an argument between a handful of local teenagers and Dropbox and Airbnb employees went viral, hundreds of demonstrators protested at San Francisco City Hall, asking for the city’s parks to be freely open to the publi...
Jan 15, 2014	Nextbit Systems Raises $18M in Series A Funding	Nextbit Systems Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based stealth startup, raised $18m in Series A funding. The round was led by Accel Partners and Google Ventures. As part of the fundraising, Nextbit will add Rich Miner (Google Ventures) and Rich Wo...
Jan 14, 2014	Stealth startup Nextbit raises $18 million Series A	The company, which was founded by two ex-Googlers, seems to be focused on mobile Nextbit, a new stealth startup from a pair of ex-Googlers, has raised a good chunk of money to get its idea off the ground... whatever it is. The company has r...
	Nextbit Robin review: A 32GB smartphone that never runs out of space	Outside of the Asia-Pacific region and emerging markets, the global smartphone business is dominated by just two just companies. Apple and Samsung. Galaxy phones and iPhones as far as the eye can see. At this point it seems like no company ...

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FAQ about Nextbit

When was Nextbit founded?

Nextbit was founded in 2013.

How much funding has Nextbit raised?

Nextbit has raised $18M in total across 1 funding round.

What has the press written about Nextbit?

Parsers VC has collected 29 articles mentioning Nextbit, among them “Nova Launcher, savior of cruft-filled Android phones, is on life support” (Aug 9, 2024) and “Term Sheet — Wednesday, February 1” (Feb 1, 2017).

Is Nextbit still active?

Nextbit is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 13, 2024.