Overview
Employees
1-10
Total raised
$4.1M
Founded date
2015
Funding Rounds 2
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| Feb 7, 2017 | Seed round | $2.1M |
Mentions in press and media 7
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| Sep 6, 2017 | Tenka Labs raises another $2M to get its kids’ LEGO engineering kits in retailers | Tenka Labs co-founder John Schuster is no stranger to walking friends through building gadgets using Arduino, an open-source hardware controller — except they might be great software engineers, but not understand the actual circuitry. But T... |
| Feb 9, 2017 | Tenka Labs Raises $2.1M in Seed Funding | Tenka Labs, a Sausalito, California, CA-based maker of smart toys, raised $2.1m in seed funding. The investors were not disclosed. The company will use the funds to produce the toys and expand operations. Co-founded by longtime educators Na... |
| Feb 9, 2017 | Tenka Labs Engineers $2.1M Seed Round | SAUSALITO, CA, Maker of smart toys has raised $2.1M in seed funding. >> Click here for more funding data on Tenka Labs >> To export Tenka Labs funding data to PDF and Excel, click here Tenka Labs a maker of smart toys, ra... |
| Feb 8, 2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, February 8 | LA vs NYC Last week at the Upfront Ventures summit in Los Angeles, a number of locals excitedly speculated that Snap’s IPO could propel L.A.’s tech ecosystem above New York City’s as the #2 in the country. It pains me to say this as a New Y... |
| Feb 7, 2017 | Tenka Labs unveils Circuit Cubes to take LEGO-like building blocks into electronic age | Startup Tenka Labs is today revealing Circuit Cubes, a new way for kids to build their own smart LEGO-like toys. The company has also raised a $2.1 million round of funding to expand its efforts. Circuit Cubes are electrically charged build... |
| Feb 7, 2017 | Tenka Labs raises $2.1 million to turn LEGO blocks into kids’ engineering projects | Nate MacDonald and John Schuster spent more than a decade in schools looking to teach students some basic principles of circuitry and engineering — but realized that just giving them a battery and a motor and saying “go” wasn’t enough. So t... |
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FAQ about Tenka Labs
When was Tenka Labs founded?
Tenka Labs was founded in 2015.
How much funding has Tenka Labs raised?
Tenka Labs has raised $4.1M in total across 2 funding rounds.
What funding rounds has Tenka Labs raised?
Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of Tenka Labs, among them a seed round of $2.1M on Feb 7, 2017.
What has the press written about Tenka Labs?
Parsers VC has collected 7 articles mentioning Tenka Labs, among them “Tenka Labs raises another $2M to get its kids’ LEGO engineering kits in retailers” (Sep 6, 2017) and “Tenka Labs Raises $2.1M in Seed Funding” (Feb 9, 2017).
Is Tenka Labs still active?
Yes, Tenka Labs is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 18, 2026.