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Mycroft is the artificial intelligence revolution we’ve been waiting for
Lawrence-based Mycroft, an open-source, open-hardware artificial intelligence platform, has recently expanded their offices to San Francisco and Kansas City, as well as closed a successful angel round. We caught up with Joshua Montgomery, CEO of Mycroft, to talk about the success of their Kickstarter campaign last year, their big move, and where Mycroft is headed…
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Igor raises $2 million in Series B
Igor has raised $2 million in its Series B fundraising round, bringing its total investment to $6 million, according to a press release. The investment will be used for development, marketing and sales of its product, a Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) smart lighting system. The platform offers cloud analytics for businesses to more efficiently manage and automate their lighting.…
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Big Bang’s Jonathan Wagner on the Internet of Things [VIDEO]
Jonathan Wagner created Big Bang to facilitate real-time collaboration for IoT projects. “I was seeing that applications in general were moving toward real-time collaboration,” said Wagner. “That’s something that wasn’t possible a few years ago.” Wagner wants people to think about the Internet of Things revolution as much more than clever consumer products. Inexpensive sensors can…
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Aisle411 is building the future for the “Internet of Stores”
St. Louis based Aisle411 wants to make shopping retail as slick as Amazon. Like many startup stories, the Aisle411 story began with a frustrated founder. “It really started when I spent 10 minutes looking for a surge protector in a home improvement store,” said Nathan Pettyjohn, founder and CEO of Aisle411. “Three guys sent me all over the…
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Mycroft becomes Kansas’”most successful Kickstarter campaign ever”
Lawrence-based open-source, open-hardware artificial intelligence platform Mycroft raised $127,520 in a 30-day “proof of interest” Kickstarter campaign. Reaching 128 percent of its $99,000 goal makes Mycroft “the most successful Kickstarter campaign ever to come out of Kansas,” according to Chief Technology Officer Ryan Sipes. Mycroft aims to be an affordable alternative to voice-based A.I. systems…
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Mycroft launches Kickstarter to create ‘artificial intelligence for everyone’
A Lawrence-based startup team opened a Kickstarter campaign Tuesday to launch Mycroft, an open-source, open-hardware artificial intelligence platform based on Raspberry Pi 2 and Arduino. Mycroft aims to be an affordable alternative to voice-based A.I. systems like Amazon Echo, and its product demo video shows it as a way to control a range of household…
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Kickstarter Staff Pick: Wichita-based Filimin
“I wanted to give us a way to express that we love each other in a simple, unobtrusive way, a way that is totally separated from the computer, cell phone, and that hectic communication, something that is part of the warmth of your ambient environment.”
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Andrew Brooks talks Internet of Things in latest Big Omaha video
Andrew Brooks, co-founder of Internet of Things company SmartThings, spoke with Big Omaha attendees on the subject of enabling smart homes while also enabling innovators to solve their industry’s problems. The Big Omaha video series is brought to you by First National Bank of Omaha.