Spire

Wearable for health and productivity that tracks state of mind, breath and activity.
Spire builds respiration sensing wearables that take bio-sensing beyond step tracking. Our sensor continuously and accurately tracks respiratory parameters (such as inhalation and exhalation time, apneic events, etc.) and activity (steps, gait, posture) in realtime, ...

Imbue

Connected Wearable Elements for the Fashion Industry.
Imbue (previously Seer Labs) creates beautiful and intelligent Connected Wearable Elements for the Fashion Industry. We empower fashion brands and designers to embed intelligence into their products by connecting them to users smartphones and lifestyle. Our first ...

SoundFocus

Supercharge Your Hearing (YC S13)
AMP, is an intelligent sound system in a case that slides onto your phone. It enhances your audio by tuning to your hearing, tastes and the environment around you. AMP’s two high quality speakers deliver crystal clear phone calls, vibrant music, and immersive movies. ...

Petcube

Dropcam+Instagram. For pets.
Petcube keeps people connected with their pets with its interactive Petcube Camera and a mobile community of pet lovers. The Petcube Camera is the first product that allows pet owners to watch, talk and play with their pet from their smartphone, no matter where ...

Zuli

Micro-location based home automation
Learn more at http://www.zuli.io Zuli is creating a brand new experience for the home, where your lights and appliances adjust to your presence, identity, and preferences. Walk into a room, and your home will dim on your lights, warm up the space heater, or ...

Dropcam

Watch the things you love with Dropcam wi-fi video cameras.
Dropcam is revolutionizing the way people stay connected to the places they care about. With the Dropcam and Dropcam Pro Wi-Fi video monitoring cameras and optional Cloud Recording (CVR) service, you can remotely drop in on your house, baby, pets, business or anything ...

Jawbone

World-leader in consumer technology and wearable devices.
Jawbone is a world-leader in consumer technology and wearable devices, building hardware products and software platforms powered by data science. Jawbone’s UP system helps people live better by providing personalized insight into how they sleep, move and eat. Its ...

Podo Labs

Wireless Cameras for Your Phone
"I wish someone could take this photo for me!" said no Podo user, ever again. Podo is the first app-controlled, “stick-and-shoot” camera so that what you capture is up to you and not the length of your arm. It's the hassle-free, stranger-free way to get any shot, ...

Lumoid

Try before you buy service, for consumer electronics
Lumoid is a try before you buy service for consumer electronics. 

Particle (formerly Spark)

A hardware/software platform for the Internet of Things.
Particle OS is an open source operating system for the Internet of Things that runs in the cloud. We provide easy to use hardware development tools for connected products, a complete tech stack for a connected product that extends from the device itself to the ...

PCH Access

Provides hardware startups capabilities normally exclusive to Fortune 500 companies
PCH Access gives hardware startups access to capabilities normally exclusive to Fortune 500 companies. With decades of experience in bringing products to market PCH can reduce the barriers to market entry so that passionate teams can thrive. Select teams avail ...

Nomiku

Modern kitchen appliances that connect people.
The most funded Kickstarter project in the food category in 2012, raising over $586K in 30 days. Now we're back and our device is connected, smarter, smaller, and more affordable. This time around we raised 750K and sold over 5,000 Nomikus. Top chefs around the ...

Whistle Labs

Improving the lives of pets, as they do ours.
Whistle is building a system of products to add healthy, happy years to pets' lives. The first is an on-collar device that measures your dog’s activities including walks, play, and rest, giving you a new perspective on day-to-day behavior and long-term health ...

ZBoard

The Weight-Sensing Electric Skateboard
We design, manufacture, and sell the ZBoard Weight-Sensing Electric Skateboard. To ride the ZBoard you simply lean forward to go and lean back to stop. With a top speed of 20 mph and a range of up to 24 miles per charge, the ZBoard is a fast, easy, convenient, ...

Birdi

Better Than A Smoke Detector
At Birdi, our mission is to build elegant devices that save lives. To do this, we’re defining the experiences for tomorrows “quantified home.” The Birdi Smart Air Monitor is better than a smoke detector. Our wifi-connected device tracks air quality, whether it's ...

Fitt

It pays to be healthy
Fi.tt is a health and fitness program that motivates and rewards individuals to be healthy. Fi.tt connects to activity trackers and mobile apps to motivate users to move just a little bit more...... Now it really pays to be healthy. We combine both a incentive ...

Butterfleye

Google's Nest meets Dropcam. We make monitoring, better.
Get updates from the team here: http://eepurl.com/0ZOlb Recognized by USA Today, CNET, Gizmodo. USA Today: "Butterfleye moves monitoring from passive security guard to smart assistant." CNET: "It'll be hard to resist deploying this gadget on the sly around the ...

Navdy

Head-Up Display (HUD) for any car...think Google Glass for your windshield
Pre-Order your Navdy now at a $200 discount at: https://www.navdy.com Fumbling around with your phone while driving is at best a bad experience. Navdy is a Head-Up Display (HUD) for your car that let's you use all the apps you love while keeping your eyes ...

Cinder

Foreman grill meets Nest (YC W'15)
The Cinder Sensing Cooker is a smart, countertop kitchen appliance that uses patent-pending sensing technology for precision temperature-control cooking that enables home cooks to prepare foods to exact temperatures and then sear in the same unit - unattended - ...

Ninja Blocks

Home control reimagined.
Ninja Blocks - Making Things Magic. At Ninja Blocks, we are creating the future of human device interaction. With an established platform, thriving community and thousands of shipped devices, we understand what needs to happen to make ubiquitous computing a reality. ...

Orange Chef

An OS for the Kitchen.
Countertop is the smart kitchen system that retrofits your appliances and gives personalized recommendations to eat better and achieve your goals. Countertop even helps users make meals step-by-step, and provides real-time insight into the nutritional content of ...

ivee

Bringing voice to the connected home. 500 Startups Batch #12.
ivee is the voice assistant for the home. We are creating J.A.R.V.I.S. (from the movie, Iron Man) Our second-generation product is moving away from our first solution (the alarm clock) and into a new "multi-room" low-cost voice system that will let anyone, anywhere ...

august

Smartphone controlled door locks
Smartphone controlled door locks by experienced founders. Dev-name was Kease. Key features: - Self installation in 10 minutes; - The smallest electronic door lock on the market (8.5cm x 5cm); and - Many other, to be announced, features.

Yobble

Xbox Kinect for iPhone: bringing motion control console game experiences to mobile
Yobble is Xbox Kinect for mobile. We're bringing console motion control gaming experiences to mobile. Our first product is Air Guitar Move, an 'appcessory' where your air guitar moves and rock star poses control the game. We want our users to feel like rock stars ...

BrainBot

Fitbit for mental health
BrainBot is a wearable biosensor that helps you stay calm and relaxed. Our patent-pending technology can alleviate stress, anxiety and depression, in many cases better than an SSRI.

Vibease

World's first Wearable Smart Vibrator
LATEST UPDATE: Vibease is nominated for CRUNCHIES AWARDS. Please vote for us http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/06/announcing-the-2013-crunchies-finalists-vote-now/ Vibease is world's first wearable smart vibrator controlled by Android & iPhone. The immersive experience ...

emberlight

Turn any light into a smart light.
Emberlight is building a full IoT technology stack that provides the best smart lighting user experience on the market. We are validating this with our initial consumer product, the emberlight socket, which turns any light into a smart light. For long term growth ...

Luna

The smart bed cover for a better night's sleep
Luna is the first technology that makes any bed smart.

Infinitec

Next Generation of Streaming and Live TV Set-Top Boxes
Infinitec has created several innovative consumer electronics products including PocketTV, which raised over $500,000 on Kickstarter. Our focus in on creating new and innovative ways for users to find and enjoy media content on their TVs. To do that we work on ...

Coveroo

Coveroo makes software that enables: Product Customization. Our product customization platform enables consumers to create highly individualized products using their own imagery while giving brands such as Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, ...

Seva Coffee

Seva Coffee

Bitfinder

Smart solutions to help you breathe healthier and live better
We’re dedicated to making people be more aware of the environment around them so that they can make healthier lifestyle decisions. And it all starts with air. Seems simple but air quality has a direct impact on our overall wellness such as the quality of our sleep ...

Prynt

Turn your smartphone into an instant camera
Prynt is the first ever instant camera case for smartphones. Just plug in your device, take a picture, and voila: get a beautiful photo in your hands within seconds. The case is simple — no ink, wifi or bluetooth — and is compatible with iOS and Android phones. Plus, ...

CUR

A smart band-aid for pain relief
CUR is a smart band-aid that you can apply anywhere on your body to relieve pain in seconds. It senses your body to deliver electrical pulses to confuse nerves and stop pain. All you have to do to use it is apply the patch and wait five seconds for relief. Please ...

Boombotix

Audio Focused Wearable Technology
Boombotix is the leader in ultraportable audio technology. The Company started in 2009 with a vision to create an alternative to headphones. Since then, Boombotix has built out a full line of bundled hardware and software to drive the future of the music listening ...

Other Machine Company

Making design and manufacturing accessible to all.
The future of manufacturing is small-batch, ultra-customized, and on-demand. With our ecosystem of hardware, software, consumables, and expertly-crafted content, everyday people no longer need factories to make products and scale their businesses.

Mellow

The robotic sous-chef for home cooks
Mellow is a smart cooking tool that stays behind and gets dinner started while you're away at work. It combines sous-vide cooking with software and refrigerator-like cooling, so that you can drop ingredients in, give it an order through your smartphone, and come ...

99Gamers

Largest and fastest growing video game marketplace
99Gamers is the easiest way to buy and sell video games directly with other gamers. All 100% free. We’re turning over the power of retailers like GameStop to everyday gamers by cutting out the middleman and providing a trusted platform for members to sell games ...

popSLATE

The Always-on Second Screen For The Mobile Consumer
popSLATE is an always-on platform that puts your apps to work for you. By integrating with popular apps, intelligently curating the information and content and delivering it to low-power screens all-around you, popSLATE frees you from the app. Its all about the ...

3Gear Systems

The "Minority Report" User Interface at your desk
At 3Gear, we believe that the future of human computer interaction isn't a better mouse or a bigger touchscreen. We're building technology that engages the full dexterity of the human hand for gestural computing. Our business model is to be the fastest and easiest ...

Skulpt

Measure your muscle fitness
Learn all about us at: http://igg.me/at/skulpt The Skulpt Aim truly helps you track your fitness by showing you how much fat you're losing and how much muscle you're gaining. It's the first device on the market that lets you measure the fat percentage and muscle ...

California Labs (Loop)

Sonos for your pictures
Loop is a personal display that unlocks a unique passive experience in the connected home.

Electroloom

3D Printer for Fabrics
We are currently live on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/electroloom/electroloom-the-worlds-first-3d-fabric-printer We are using Kickstarter to find our first set of alpha users to work with our Developer Kits to help us improve the technology ...

Wearhaus

Social music sharing headphones
Wearhaus redefines listening to music through headphones by making it more fun and social. Music enthusiasts love the connection that the shared experience of a concert or party creates. Wearhaus is enabling people to bring these social experiences with them wherever ...

Dreem

The first active wearable device that makes your sleep better.
Dreem Headband is the first active wearable that makes your sleep better. Based on a stimulation process coming from innovative research work in neurosciences, Dreem Headband augments the duration and the quality of deep sleep, a particular sleep stage where crucial ...

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Iotera

Never lose sight of what's important
We could all use a helper. The goal with Iota was to build an efficient, tiny, and always connected device to help you find, secure, and protect everything important. Iota helps you find your lost pet, lets you know if your bike is being tampered with, protects ...