2012 · Kickstarter
Would you have funded Pebble?
A smartwatch that talks to your phone
A founder who struggled to raise money puts his e-paper smartwatch on Kickstarter. It hits its $100,000 goal in two hours.
- Over $4.7 million raised on Kickstarter in six days
- Had raised only $375,000 from angels
Show what happened
💥 Bust
Pebble It became the most funded Kickstarter campaign of its time, but filed for insolvency in December 2016 and sold most of its assets to Fitbit.
Angels put in $375,000; venture investors had largely passed before Kickstarter.
Sources: Pebble (watch) (Wikipedia)
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