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Spatial Labs, a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, closes $10M seed round

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Spatial Labs , a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, announced today the closing of a $10 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Marcy Venture Partners, the firm co-founded by Jay-Z. This piece was updated to reflect what year LINQ and Gen One Hardware launched.

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10 tips for de-risking hardware products

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million fundraise , I asked company founder Narek Vardanyan what he thinks are the biggest pitfalls in hardware development. 10 tips for de-risking hardware products by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch Last week, when I wrote about Prelaunch.com’s $1.5 In other words, your potential customers.”

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PwC is acquiring Surfaceink, the hardware designer that was once a close partner of Apple’s

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A lesser-known but significant player in the Silicon Valley tech world is getting acquired today — a move that underscores the changing economics in the world of hardware, and who wants to get more involved in that space. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Block releases Bitkey hardware wallet to 95 countries… kinda

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Jack Dorsey’s Block (the company formerly known as Square) announced today that it is releasing its hardware Bitcoin wallet, Bitkey, in 95 countries. The company hasn’t specified the price of the product yet. However, users can only preorder the device at the moment, with shipping starting in early 2024.

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Prelaunch assembles a pre-seed round to help hardware founders pre-build the right pre-products

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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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Crypto wallet company Ledger raises another $108 million

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The company designs and manufactures so-called hardware wallets to secure crypto assets. In 2021, the company raised €356 million ($385 million at today’s exchange rate). And the company is adding another €100 million ($108 million) in new funding. Once again, the company has managed to line up a long list of investors.

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CES 2024: How to watch as Nvidia, Samsung and more reveal hardware, AI updates

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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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