TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Existing investors LAUNCHub Ventures, Hoxton Ventures, HCVC (Hardware Club) and Change Ventures also participated. It was founded in 2016 in Riga, Latvia by two brothers, Mikus Opelts and Madars Opelts, and is headquartered in London, U.K. To date, the company has raised $22 million in equity and $9 million in venture debt.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Our airspace is going to get more crowded than ever, but most companies today are concentrating only on hardware development,” said Terra Drone CEO and founder Toru Tokushige , who is also serving as the CEO of Terra Motors, which develops electric vehicles.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This is the technology behind Snapchat’s filters, impressive on mobile hardware, and it points to the most promising aspect of face-tracking technology: its implications for socializing in the digital sphere. Where do you think face-tracking technology will go towards the end of 2016? Leave a comment below!

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

When you are a coffee lover, taste matters, and Spinn is brewing up some fresh funding in the way of a $20 million funding round, led by Spark Capital, to bring connected coffee to new customers through its hardware-enabled coffee marketplace. Spinn debuted its centrifugal brewing method at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield in 2016.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

While Entocycle has been around since 2016 , the team of 21 people will now try and commercialize its products. It’s a hardware module that can be used in insect farms to monitor and collect data on the health and productivity of black soldier flies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

The Japan-headquartered company, which builds drone software, hardware and uncrewed aircraft traffic management software, said the new capital brings its total raised to $97 million since its inception in 2016. It declined to comment on its post-money valuation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

Carriers purchase trucks with compatible hardware directly from OEMs, so Embark says it has designed its system to be “platform agnostic” across multiple components and manufacturers. The company includes carriers Mesilla Valley Transportation and Bison Transport, and companies Anheuser-Busch InBev and HP Inc., among its partners.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 4, 2025

Lambda , $480M, artificial intelligence: Lambda, which offers cloud computing services and hardware for training artificial intelligence software, raised a $480 million Series D co-led by Andra Capital and SGW. Founded in 2016, Apptronik had previously raised $28 million, per the company. came from our neighbors to the north.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

So she taught herself how to code, launched in 2016, raised $2.8 million since its launch back in 2016. She had seen firsthand the challenges of running a small business as a freelance makeup artist, one of her jobs while she was a student at Princeton. million round last November.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

” In a hardware landscape that is dominated by big tech companies — particularly in VR hardware — Varjo is notable for being an independent player, and not one that’s prone to gobbling lots of cash to stay that way: it’s only raised around $150 million since being founded in 2016.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 25, 2016

Wondering where supercomputing is heading in 2016? This is something to keep an eye on throughout 2016. Cray’s DataWarp products are a few examples of attempts to combine software and hardware innovation around data-tiering. As 2016 moves forward, we will see the coherence between analytics and supercomputing develop.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Founded in 2016, Apptronik had previously raised $28 million, per the company. By uniting cutting-edge AI with hardware engineered for meaningful interaction, were shaping a future where robots become true partners in driving progress.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

Founded in 2016 by a group of PhDs from the University of Tokyo and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, VisionNav’s valuation was boosted to over $500 million in this round, up from $393 million just six months ago when it picked up 300 million yuan ($47 million) in a Series C financing, it told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

CEO Marlow Nickell founded Austin-based Clerk in 2016, and while he saw Amazon and Walmart plowing ahead in the marketing and product merchandising spaces, he saw a need from the rest of the space that didn’t have the capacity to innovate there. We saw companies raise more, but struggle to get hardware out there,” he added.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

In 2016, Samsung SDS tried to sell the smart home IoT unit to Ireland-based company Allegion but they couldn’t reach an agreement, as reported. . By combining Zigbang’s residential contents with Samsung [SDS]’ home IoT hardware, we will revolutionize the smart home market,” CEO of Zigbang Sung-woo Ahn said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Point One Navigation jumped on the scene in 2016 with technology that eliminates that and other problems that occur when a vehicle isn’t in the exact location it’s supposed to be. “Location is one of the pillars of robotics that needs to be solved,” CEO and co-founder Aaron Nathan said in a recent interview.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Back in 2016 I wrote about a NASA project that took inspiration from moth eyes to create a 2D camera of sorts. Unlike many other hardware startups, Metalenz isn’t starting with a short run of boutique demo devices but going big out of the gate. The future of photography is code.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The first of those tools is the company’s hardware component, called ActivSight, which allows surgeons to see things that would otherwise be invisible, like blood flow through microscopic vessels inside tissue. Activ Surgical first made headlines in 2016 for creating a robot that performed the first totally autonomous suturing of soft tissue.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Ashour worked in the metering and utility business for more than a decade and led the implementation of smart metering technologies — particularly hardware– across Africa, Europe, Asia and the Middle East for various companies. The company said it doesn’t charge its customers an upfront cost for its hardware.

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Coding Horror

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Not really a surprise, since the price of hardware trends to zero over time. Reliable connectivity, plus a nice low monthly price for extremely fast hardware? I originally wrote about the scooter computers we added to our Discourse infrastructure in 2016, plus my own colocation experiment that ran concurrently.

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The Parallax

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

With its focus on hardware and software for public elections, VotingWorks is different from Adida’s previous electronic voting system efforts, including Helios , an online voting system Adida said is best used in closed elections like those for university-level student body governments or corporate boards of directors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

IIT Kanpur alumnus Asati co-founded the startup with Shivam Wankhede and Adarshkumar B — alumni of IIT Delhi and Indian School of Business (ISB), respectively, in August 2016. It has to be digitally enabled for a quick evolution,” said Peeyush Asati, co-founder and CEO of Vecmocon, in an interview with TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Founded in 2016, navigation is at the heart of what London-based SLAMcore does. The more of our world we share with robots, the more important it is to help them find their way. In fact, it’s right there in the name — SLAM being a common robotics acronym for “Simultaneous localization and mapping.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The new financing follows Everphone’s $40 million Series B, closed in summer 2020, as the 2016-founded startup reported an uplift in interest driven by the COVID-19-triggered remote working boom. Deutsche Telekom, AlleyCorp and signals Venture Capital also participated as returning investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

eYs3D Microelectronics , a fabless design house that focuses on end-to-end software and hardware systems for computer vision technology, has raised a $7 million Series A. Based in Taipei, Taiwan, eYs3D was spun out of Etron , a fabless IC and system-in-package (SiP) design firm, in 2016.

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The Parallax

JANUARY 24, 2019

ASLR was part of the router’s built-in security from its debut in 2011, but it disappeared toward the end of 2016, when the Linux MIPS code was updated to version 4.8. Chart showing the D-Link DAP-2690 dropping ASLR in 2016. Linux MIPS has been missing fundamental hardening features for its entire lifetime, and with 2016 in 4.8

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

According to a 2016 survey commissioned by CyberArk, 40% of organizations store admin passwords in a Word document. While not new — one of the first homomorphic encryption schemes was proposed in 1978 — recent innovations have made homographic encryption viable to implement at scale on today’s hardware.

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The Parallax

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Following the 2016 election, the U.S. now rely solely on paper ballots, having added only Virginia to their rolls since 2016, and Maryland and Washington, D.C., To replace DRE hardware, the report estimates that the cost per precinct would fall between $6,200 and $10,000. EVMs are still in heavy use in the United States.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

As organizations begin leveraging quantum hardware to solve complex problems, industries such as media, government, and financial services are leading the charge in quantum investments.” When it comes to plans to invest in quantum computing and post-quantum cryptography, there were clear similarities among respondents in various sectors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Harvey founded Salt Lake City, Utah-based PassiveLogic in 2016 with Jeremy Fillingim. Applications written in Quantum can be deployed within PassiveLogic’s control hardware — the aforementioned Hive. Fillingim was a partner at Mote Systems, where he designed a touchscreen universal remote control.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

spending billions of dollars on virtual reality tech every fiscal quarter, the wider VR startup ecosystem has been having a tough few years coming down from the highs of 2016, when investors dumped money into the sector expecting Oculus-sized returns only to see most of their investments slowly wilt away. Despite Zuckerberg & Co.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Now the B2B software startup has also transitioned into payments as a fintech hardware provider for the beauty and wellness industry with the development of a card reader that integrates with its app. A former Goldman Sachs analyst, Cohen-Shohet launched the New York-based startup in 2016. Everything is accessible.”.

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The Parallax

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Certainly, we’ve recently been bombarded by alarming or depressing news in the cybersecurity and privacy arena, from new scams exploiting hacked passwords to hacks of 30 million Facebook accounts to the rise of the Meltdown and Spectre hardware exploits. election security experts grab the attention of influencers in D.C.

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CIO

MARCH 19, 2024

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. March 2010: Apotheker says he wants to transform HP from a hardware producer to a software and services provider. November 2012: HP takes an $8.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Swedish startup Einride was founded in 2016 with a mission to electrify freight transport. Today, that means designing electric trucks and an underlying operating system to help overland shippers make the transition to electric.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Since its $30 million Series B in 2016 , Clarifai has been rolling out new capabilities and products targeting a company’s unstructured image, video, text and audio data files. It is also deploying its Edge AI capability that layers AI on top of data streams using various local hardware, from high-powered servers to cameras and drones.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

The only successful way to manage this type of environment was for organizations to have visibility across all the hardware, applications, clouds and networks distributed across their edge environments, just like they have in the data center or cloud.” Image Credits: Zededa.

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