IoT
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The Top 50 most funded IoT campaigns on kickstarter and indiegogo
Recently I've noticed a growing number of IoT startups raising a lot of money very quickly on kickstarter and indiegogo. Skully Helmets raised more than $1M in a day and still growing, Sense raised more than $2M, and JIBO just surpassed $1.8M, just to name a few (all figures at the time of writing this post).
Corporate + Hackathon = IoT Success?
I wrote a couple of months back about the explosion of IoT accelerators, and how corporates are beginning to play a bigger role in the space. Corporates can provide APIs to real products, and access to real usage data that developers can hack around with to create new apps and services. GE's at the forefront of this with the GE+Quirky initiative where they claim to be providing "thousands of patents" to Quirky developers.
Battery-free IoT devices around the corner?
Energy consumption and battery life are key issues for IoT devices.
IoT startup interview: Emberlight CEO Atif Noori
When I met Atif in the summer of 2013, he was still at his old job and looking to start his own hardware startup. He briefly joined us at Venture Scanner to look at the IoT space, came up with a bunch of ideas, and discussed them with us. A year later, he launched a smart lightbulb socket called emberlight on kickstarter and blew past his goal of $50K in five days (raised $78K with 34 days left at the time of writing this post).