Lemnos Labs Featured In Wired –
Lemnos Labs’ Eric Klein is chattering away about the brewing hardware revolution. He says that technology innovations in the last 10 years have made it possible for people to actually accomplish more with hardware for less. That lower barrier to entry will draw more and more people to building hardware.
“This thing is going to be huge…
Nanosatisfi Featured In TechCrunch –
For years, Peter Platzer was pretty close to a stereotypical rocket scientist on Wall Street — he was trained as a high-energy physicist, but he spent most of his professional career in finance. But he told me he’s always had an interest in space exploration, and now he’s working on an aerospace startup called NanoSatisfi, which just raised $1.2 million in seed funding…
Lemnos Labs Hardware 2.0 Conference Featured in Wired –
“The old saw in Silicon Valley is that venture capitalists won’t touch hardware investments. It’s not because they hate gadgets and machines, it’s that the cost to launch a hardware startup is much higher compared to the price to code a new piece of software. Not only do you have to build it, you’ve got to find the shelf space (virtual or otherwise) to sell it. All that adds up to a risk most investors don’t want to touch.
If you ask Jeremy Conrad, co-founder of hardware incubator Lemnos Labs, he’ll tell you that those notions are outdated. “Venture capitalists are starting to look at radically different companies than they used to because the cost to launch a hardware startup has gone down,” he says. Conrad hosted the Hardware 2.0 conference in San Francisco, where investors, startup founders, and others in the hardware space challenged the notion that hardware startups are impossible to fund.”
Revolve Robotics featured in Wired
“When you can’t be somewhere in person, you can check things out virtually through the concept of telepresence. But not all solutions are created equal, which is where Revolve Robotics’ new product Kubi comes in. It’s smarter than a stand but cheaper than a robot.
Kubi is a motorized tablet stand that lets you look around the room during video-conferencing sessions. It can pan up to 300 degrees and has a tilt range of 90 degrees. The device’s spring-loaded “arms” pinch together to hold a tablet — just about any tablet — in portrait or landscape mode.”
Nanosatisfi Featured in the WSJ
“Silicon Valley is gearing up for a new type of space race: the quest to launch relatively inexpensive satellites to open up space exploration to the masses.
Two San Francisco startups are preparing to launch their first satellites next year. NanoSatisfi Inc. plans to provide data such as weather and shipping information to businesses through imagery gleaned from a constellation of small satellites. It has raised nearly $1.5 million from Bay Area, New York and European angel investors and $106,330 through Kickstarter for a venture designed to let students conduct their own experiments from satellites, such as examining high-atmosphere radiation.”
Lemnos Labs Featured in VentureBeat
“Hardware has long been the outcast of startup society, pushed to the fringes by popular social networks, e-commerce platforms, and enterprise jocks. But now the nerdy kids spending their free time in science club, tinkering with robots and playing with math, are making a comeback.
Today, Lemnos Labs held an event called Hardware 2.0 at its SoMA warehouse to bring entrepreneurs, investors, experts, and innovators together to stimulate discussion about the state of hardware.”
Lemnos Labs Featured in the WSJ
“Crowdfunding pioneers Indiegogo and Kickstarter opened up their fundraising platforms in 2008 and 2009 respectively, but 2012 may be the first year that tech investors and entrepreneurs took crowdfunding very seriously. Hardware projects especially grew into full-fledged businesses after humble beginnings.
A San Francisco-based incubator for early-stage hardware startups, Lemnos Labs, reports that today a majority of its portfolio companies use crowdfunding to make money. More importantly, they use crowdfunding to see if there’s real demand for the products they’ve imagined and prototyped, says Lemnos founding partner Jeremy Conrad.”
Lemnos Labs featured on Bloomberg Business Week -
Lemnos Labs was founded by Zelman and Jeremy Conrad, both 28, last November in San Francisco, and has raised $1.85 million from angel investors including former Yahoo! (YHOO) executive Ash Patel and WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg. Lemnos is backing about 10 hardware startups, including a maker of autopilot systems for unmanned drones and a company that built a device that attaches to corporate campus vehicles and connects with a smartphone to coordinate employee pickups.
Lemnos Labs featured on Venture Beat -
The US is home to more than 250 million registered passenger vehicles, making it the largest market for cars and trucks in the world. Of these vehicles, how many are under-used? Left to wallow in dark garages or gather dust in lonely parking lots? I do not have numbers on this, but I do know that a startup called Local Motion is working to give these cars their chance around the block.
Lemnos Labs featured on Xconomy -
“At Lemnos Labs, the rapid-iteration, rapid-growth, conquer-the-world mindset typical of Silicon Valley software startups is meeting the world of hardware. You might not think that the startup accelerator model that’s been so successful for Web and mobile startups like Airbnb, Dropbox, or Heroku is applicable to the world of actual machines, which are, after all, a little harder to revise than products made from pure code. But you’d be wrong.” –Wade Roush, Xconomy (6/12/12)
Lemnos Labs featured on Tech Crunch -
“It seems like everyone’s worried about an incubator bubble, but seriously — Lemnos Labs is doing something different. It’s not just incubating the latest social network or iPhone app. Instead, it’s looking for startups that actually build stuff, and by stuff, I mean hardware.” –Anthony Ha, Techcrunch (4/24/12)
Lemnos Labs featured on Startup Grind -
“Different is good. In a startup world where everyone seems to be drawn towards the same products and verticals, Lemnos Labs is trying something different and I hope it’s hugely successful” –Derek Anderson, Startup Grind (4/19/12)
Lemnos Labs featured on Startup Grind -
“Hardware’s startup stock has been on a massive rise the past few years with companies like Square, Jawbone, Flip, Fitbit, and Nest gathering excitement beyond software.” –Derek Anderson, Starup Grind (2/16/12)
Lemnos Labs is featured in The Wall Street Journal -
“Decades after Silicon Valley swung toward software, hardware is hot again.” –Jessica Vascellaro, The Wall Street Journal (12/15/11)
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