Wunderbar IoT starter-kit raises $11 M from Kleiner Perkins
Keesjan (Case) Engelen
CEO Titoma, Electr. Design & Mfg Colombia & China. On-Time & On-Budget since 2001
In 2014 Relayr initially raised a modest 111K in crowdfunding for it's beginner friendly IoT starter kit, but now got funded by venerated VC Kleiner Perkins. Congrats to the team and also to Startupbootcamp!
The kit allows beginners to experiment with Beacons and connected sensors. I feel it's rather overpriced at Euro 470, better buy it at Seeed, but they must be doing something very right in their support services.
This article first appeared on the Titoma blog as Wunderbar IoT Starter Kit Raises $11M From Kleiner Perkins
Case Engelen is CEO of Titoma Design Ltd. and has been designing and manufacturing electronics in Taiwan & China for 20 years. If you consider a custom product you should read China ODM factory designs: 7 pitfalls to avoid. If you like this article, well, please like it!
Project Faculty at National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology
9yI think it's the chocolate look. People were tricked into thinking they would be investing into something valuable and lasting like chocolate, when in fact it was just another "IoT" kit... I still find the term "Internet of Things" funny, because the "internet" was called so for the simple reason that computers on several networks could communicate with each other. "IoT" devices usually only communicate with other devices from the same manufacturer, since there is no protocol that would allow standardised communication. Just saying...
Congratulations! This is much needed.
Serial entrepreneur day to day involved in 22+ startups and advisor at over 130 startups world wide. Talks about carbon management, AI, IoT and technologies for elderly care covering emotion tracking and biosensing.
9yCongrats this is great news for both you and the maker movement