TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

But they share a common bottleneck: hardware. New techniques and chips designed to accelerate certain aspects of AI system development promise to (and, indeed, already have) cut hardware requirements. Emerging from stealth today, Exafunction is developing a platform to abstract away the complexity of using hardware to train AI systems.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

You’ve likely heard that “hardware is hard”; mostly because hardware startups have to deal with things that software companies don’t really have to worry about. ” Hardware development is complex and challenging. Hardware development is inherently a lot more costly than cranking out software.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The ability to rent all sorts of things is a logical step in the evolution of a subscription economy , but renting hardware wasn’t necessarily top-of-mind for startups until COVID-19 hit. Working from home during the pandemic created tailwinds for hardware rental companies. This aspect is less relevant in the U.S,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The road to recurring revenue for hardware startups. Hardware companies seem to be subject to infant mortality their whole lives. I don’t know if there is an answer to this, but if there were a way for hardware companies to evolve more the way software companies do, they’d be a lot more resilient. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Stoke Space , a company that’s developing a fully reusable rocket, has unveiled a new tool to let hardware companies track the design, testing and integration of parts. The new tool, Fusion , is targeting an unsexy but essential aspect of the hardware workflow. Fusion is particularly relevant to startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

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. Next year, he hopes to launch a personal fund to support people of color and will focus on tech and hardware innovation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

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. Overall, Ledger has sold over 3 million hardware wallets. After the crypto boom of 2018, interests for hardware wallets faded away. The company first launched the Ledger Nano S.

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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. million in funding to do something similar for B2B transactions.

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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. The world has changed dramatically since the first commercial chip developers opened shop in the 1970s and 80s.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

To software developers, the process of creating a hardware product can seem distinctly 1980s. I got frustrated with how much of my time was being spent managing the most fundamental elements of hardware development: CAD files, your bill of materials and your supply chain data,” explains Duro’s CEO Michael Corr.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Mavenoid , a Swedish company that provides both human- and AI-enabled support and troubleshooting tools for hardware companies, has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding. Hardware issues are repetitive, difficult, and time-consuming to fix. ” Technical support. .”

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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. ” How the FirstBuild product co-creation studio is changing how new things are made Prelaunch is founded on the core belief that the current practices in hardware product development basically haven’t changed in the last 100 years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Imagine building some of the most sophisticated hardware-driven technologies in the world — spacecraft, drones or autonomous vehicles. She wasn’t referring to the sophistication of the tools, but the way in which the hardware production toolset is balkanized across both teams and tasks. VC and technologists.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

CVCs remained consistent investors in 2022 10 tips for de-risking hardware products Image Credits: Frisco / Getty Images With the right team, a software startup might only need weeks to go from the idea stage to billing their first customers. 10 tips for de-risking hardware products Thinking about pulling the plug on your startup?

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Software engineers have a host of tooling to organize their projects, chief being Git software like GitLab or GitHub, but hardware engineers today lack that same organizing principle. Flow Engineering wants to modernize the hardware engineering design process by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch. million seed round.

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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

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. The road to recurring revenue for hardware startups. Bild co-founders Pradyut Paul and Avinash Kunaparaju. Image Credits: Bild.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Sometimes it's important to state the obvious. That democracies are fragile but that technology can help. And also that crowdfunding isn't always the best way to launch an innovative product. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

There are hardware events this week from Apple, Samsung and Google. This week, the week of October 18, 2021, kicked off with a mixed markets picture. Asian stocks were mixed, down in Europe, and set to fall in the United States. China remains a concern. Along with earnings from Netflix, IBM, and Qualtrics.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

First Resonance makes software for making hardware. Now, with $14M in new funding, the company aims to scale up its presence and make a full-court press on the hardware makers of the world. And embracing more factories and hardware types with an expanded SDK is also on the horizon.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

“Using this legacy hardware to cultivate meat requires one to reengineer the cells. Our approach and core conviction is that it is actually easier, and ultimately better, to design new hardware systems aimed to foster the growth around the cells, rather than trying to fit these cells to existing engineering systems.”

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TechSoup

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Buying refurbished hardware can be a great choice for nonprofit organizations, helping them to save money while making more sustainable choices. However, the refurbished hardware market can be confusing, and it's hard to know which resellers you can trust.

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Ooda Loop

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

IBM is one of […] The post IBM boosts the amount of computation you can get done on quantum hardware appeared first on OODAloop. It’s still an open question, however, whether we could perform limited but useful calculations at an earlier point.

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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. As hard as that job is, though, at least software PMs have a stack of software to help them do their jobs.

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TechSoup

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Refurbished hardware has long been a staple of TechSoup's offerings to nonprofits. We aim to offer cost-effective and environmentally friendly ways for our members to equip themselves with high-quality computers, tablets, phones, and peripherals.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As hardware advances and diversifies, we’re entering what many see as a new golden age of computer architecture. The post Heterogeneous Hardware Needs Universal Software appeared first on DevOps.com. So many […]. So many […].

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Audio startup Syng has been building on quite a bit more hype than the average fresh hardware startup, largely because of the team behind it. The company has now raised $50 million to date to build out an audio hardware startup with a hefty focus on design and advanced tech.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

5 consumer hardware VCs share their 2021 investment strategies. ” Meanwhile, the company currently has nearly 50 job openings listed, including engineers with camera and computer vision experience, hardware engineers, designers and security experts, among many others. One sign of where all that funding will be going.)

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As healthcare goes remote, Equipt Health brings medical hardware to the home by Andrew Mendez originally published on TechCrunch.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2024

Personal translation devices have had a hugely transformative decade. Improvements to processing power, machine learning and cloud platforms have all played key roles in this development.

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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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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Groundbreaking releases from Apple, Huawei, and Honor turn this week's Innovation Index into a hardware tug-of-war. AI-fatigued readers, rejoice.

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David Walsh

APRIL 18, 2023

Krafton recently announced they would start banning cheaters by hardware ID, which got me thinking about how you can get a user’s hardware ID. There’s no definitive “hardware ID” provided by a machine, but you can create your own based on how specific you want to get.

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