TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Formerly at Apple, Nils Mattisson is now CEO and co-founder of smart home tech company Minut. The road to recurring revenue for hardware startups. Hardware companies seem to be subject to infant mortality their whole lives. The company has to keep shipping, and customers to keep buying, new products.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

Following today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of $1.5 Ledger’s main product is a hardware wallet to manage your crypto assets. With a hardware wallet, you remain in control of your crypto assets. The company first launched the Ledger Nano S. Overall, Ledger has sold over 3 million hardware wallets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

A new company is looking to do for B2B hardware sales what a growing number of companies have been doing in the consumer sphere, by making it easier for businesses to pay for equipment in instalments through rentals and subscriptions. Hardware-as-a-service. Topi payment methods. Topi: Like a Klarna for B2B transactions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

Hardware startups are hard, the saying goes, but it isn’t always obvious why they are hard. Image Credits: Prelaunch.com To date, the company had been bootstrapped, but it today announces it is closing its seed round on a SAFE note with a $10 million cap. There’s less of that in the hardware space, the company points out.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

AllSpice , a collaborative hub designed for hardware development, came out of private beta on a mission to build a DevOps ecosystem inspired by GitHub. They bonded over frustrations at their respective jobs in what seemed like a hardware industry left behind to rely on PDFs and email to get things done versus software development.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

EnCharge AI , a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge , today emerged from stealth with $21.7 Speaking to TechCrunch via email, co-founder and CEO Naveen Verma said that the proceeds will be put toward hardware and software development as well as supporting new customer engagements.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

For most of the Information Age, companies that wanted to scale invested in server farms and hired teams to keep them running. Soon after, when I worked at a publicly traded company, our on-prem data center was resilient enough to operate through a moderate earthquake. To get in touch, send a note to guestcolumns@techcrunch.com.

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2024

Intel has set up a new company, Articul8 AI, to sell enterprise generative AI software it developed. The new company’s investors include global investment firm DigitalBridge Ventures. Nvidia’s hardware was used in the development of ChatGPT, a widely adopted and popular AI tool, giving it a crucial head start over its competitors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Flux cites both the explosion of remote work (which won’t be going away any time soon) and ongoing hardware constraints, such as the chip shortage, as major drivers in the interest surrounding its technology. Wagner tells TechCrunch that the company is taking a GitHub-style approach to monetization.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

You can’t swing an outdated Python manual in this town without hitting half a dozen app analytics suites, but the same cannot be said if you’re a product manager hoping to figure out where you lose customers for smart home hardware. “There isn’t much product analytics in most apps for connected hardware.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

One, most of them are excluded from various payment ecosystems globally due to their size, and two, getting hardware from providers can be expensive. . based fintech Nomod allows these businesses to bypass the card terminal by providing a platform to accept card payments on their phone with no extra hardware. The company has raised $3.4

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2024

CES 2024 will be here before we know it, taking over Las Vegas with throngs of crowds, booths full of products and a lot of companies making claims about how AI is improving their offerings. As noted in our CES preview, though the conference has had its ups and downs of late, it’s increasingly become […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

When Pradyut Paul was a hardware engineering program manager at Apple, he saw firsthand the challenges of building and sharing hardware products using antiquated tools like email and spreadsheets. Bild was in private beta testing with 25 companies, but with the announcement of the funding round, the software is now publicly available.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2022

million from Foundry and Venrock , then crowdfunding its personal robot , the company hit a series of challenges. Today, Swedish social robotics company Furhat Robotics is offering the beleaguered startup a gentle landing in what the Swedish company says is an all-cash deal. “This company spun out of Spiro.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Equipt is a home medical equipment company; it aims to streamline the process for providers and patients to access medical equipment needed for care. The company is looking at expanding its reach in the near future, according to Weisinger. This feeds into its financial model where the company charges for DME and HME consultations.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

First Resonance makes software for making hardware. The company’s Ion platform provides an all-in-one option for anyone who has to manage manufacturing lines, supply chains, engineering and design, among other things. When we first covered them last summer , the company was just getting started.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

If you’re working in hardware development, there’s not a lot of options for collaborative work — at least not until Five Flute came along. If you’re working in hardware development, there’s not a lot of options for collaborative work — at least not until Five Flute came along.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

How Nvidia got here and where it’s going next sheds light on how the company has achieved that valuation, a story that owes a lot to the rising importance of specialty chips in business—and accelerating interest in the promise of generative AI. Efforts to stay in the $1T club Nvidia is driving forward on many fronts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2024

CES 2024 will be here before we know it, taking over Las Vegas with throngs of crowds, booths full of products and a lot of companies making claims about how AI is improving their offerings. As noted in our CES preview, though the conference has had its ups and downs of late, it’s increasingly become […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Valuation with this Series B is not being disclosed, the company confirmed to me. 5 consumer hardware VCs share their 2021 investment strategies. 5 consumer hardware VCs share their 2021 investment strategies. There is already an impressive team of about 60 people at the company, which is another detail that attracted investors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Though we hear about new cultivated meat companies and funding rounds with frankly amazing frequency ( this one happened while I was writing this!), “Using this legacy hardware to cultivate meat requires one to reengineer the cells. It’s just raised $3.2 million to turn its prototype bioreactor into a commercial product.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2024

CES 2024 will be here before we know it, taking over Las Vegas with throngs of crowds, booths full of products and a lot of companies making claims about how AI is improving their offerings. As noted in our CES preview, though the conference has had its ups and downs of late, it’s increasingly become […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Crypto wallet in disguise : Ledger, a company that designs and manufactures crypto wallets, is now flush with actual cash. The company just raised $42 million, Kyle reports. It seems we can’t go that many days without more news on a company cutting jobs. Thursdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

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Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

As companies refresh to modern technology, it’s imperative to shift operations to a leader in PC hardware lifecycle management.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Luos , a participant in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition this week, wants to make it easy for embedded hardware developers to connect to any hardware component, such as a motor or sensor, then build a reusable configuration profile to give them the same type of flexibility that software engineers have with microservices.

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Ooda Loop

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

These chips — a hybrid of PC processors and Xilinx programmable chips — are engineered to empower hardware companies looking to accelerate power-efficient AI […]

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

Initially, we approached this as a hardware challenge until we determined that the key to meeting next-generation electric motor demand actually lies in software. Pivoting from hardware to SaaS was the right move for our electric motor design startup, but the process wasn’t precisely linear. That’s why we’ve pivoted to a SaaS model.

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CIO

DECEMBER 6, 2023

When speaking with IT leaders from the world’s largest companies about their greatest business challenges, there’s one thing I hear often. SAP Analytics Cloud helped them get access to a profit and loss account for each of their 200 individual locations as well as a comprehensive, consolidated company view. It’s easy to see why.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Travel is back and with it news that TripActions was making a possible play for an initial public offering, which would value the company at $12 billion, Mary Ann reports. The news is a milestone for both companies, Rebecca reports. Long live IPOs! Catch Alex ’s take on the matter down in the TC+ section. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Pacman on the attack : Carly writes that MIT researchers, while applying a “Pacman attack” test on Apple’s M1 chips, undiscovered a doozy in the way of an “unpatchable” hardware vulnerability that could allow attackers to break through its last line of security defenses. The TechCrunch Top 3. In its response, Apple didn’t seem too worried.

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CIO

APRIL 10, 2024

The company needs massive computing power with CPUs and GPUs that are optimized for AI development, says Clark, adding that Seekr looked at the infrastructure it would need to build and train its huge AI models and quickly determined that buying and maintaining the hardware would be prohibitively expensive. Clark says.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

Today the company announced a $25 million Series B that it closed in June, and also publicly revealed a $12 million Series A for the first time that it raised last August. It doesn’t involve building its own data centers, at least not yet, but it does require installing hardware in different co-location facilities around the world. “So

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Enter LiquidStack , a company that’s spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware technology developer Bitfury Group with a $10 million investment. Later, the companies jointly deployed 160 megawatts of two-phase immersion-cooled data centers. and research and development in Hong Kong, according to a statement.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

But what are early adopter companies really doing with Apple’s new hardware, and what do they hope to get out of these investments? Cosmetics, Hanifa, and the PGA Tour to understand these companies’ strategies. The piece examines efforts from Lowe’s, e.l.f.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Eclypsium protects DoD and federal agencies and contractors from the foundation of your computing infrastructure upward, controlling the risks and stopping threats to the firmware and hardware inside every laptop, server […].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In spite of various economic slowdowns and investment freezes, it seems like there are always dozens of companies trying to hire in the space. Every time I put out a call for robotics jobs, I’m bombarded. It’s a beautiful thing. That’s surely a sign […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

At the same time internet of things (IoT) devices and embedded software are becoming more complex, manufacturers are looking for ways to effectively manage the increasing volume of edge hardware. This was not the case a year ago; there is more talent available on the market than at any time since we started the company.”

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