| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.06.2025 | Sunrise Robotics emerges from stealth with $8.5M to democratise factory automation | Today, intelligent industrial robotics startup Sunrise Robotics emerges from stealth with $8.5 million in funding.
Industrial manufacturing faces a critical threat with the retirement of workers in the coming decade without replacements or ... |
| 22.09.2022 | Limbo tones up with $6 million to boost digital weight loss platform | As obesity shifts from a regional issue to a worldwide epidemic, new approaches and technologies are needed to avert the terrible costs that come with it — both human and financial.
Recently, Kollektiv raised €1.5 million in a pre-seed fund... |
| 02.05.2021 | Consumer Trends Demand New Supply Chain Ideas | May 2, 2021 4 min read
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According to a recent white paper penned by PCH International Founder and CEO Liam Casey, enjoying the full benefits of the Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) chann... |
| 04.03.2021 | How PCH International Is Helping Companies Reinvent Their Supply Chains | Data-driven supply chain management can be key to business successgetty |
| 05.03.2019 | Fictiv raises $33M to be the ‘AWS of hardware manufacturing’ | Hardware, as the saying goes, is hard, but today a startup has raised some money for a manufacturing platform that it believes can make the prospect of starting and running hardware businesses a little easier. Fictiv, which positions itself... |
| 21.05.2018 | Volunteer honoured, PCH Foundation recaps year and raises more than $2.4 million for Vital Signs campaign | SUMMERSIDE – The Prince County Hospital Foundation held its annual meeting recently, and on top of recapping the year, the foundation announced the most recent Harry T. Holman Award recipient.
The award, dedicated each year to a volunteer o... |
| 24.07.2017 | Ex-Amazon and Microsoft employees launching business-focused digital assistant ‘Roxy’ | The Roxy smart speaker device that is coming to several Seattle area hotels. (Roxy Photo)
As veterans of Amazon and Microsoft, the co-founders of Seattle startup Roxy saw exactly what voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cor... |
| 02.11.2016 | Ignite co-founder Brady Forrest to leave Highway1 hardware startup accelerator after three-year run | Brady Forrest of Highway1 at the 2015 GeekWire Summit.
San Francisco-based hardware startup accelerator Highway1, part of custom hardware company PCH, announced today that Brady Forrest will be leaving his position there. Forrest has led Hi... |
| 20.05.2016 | Indiegogo improves crowdfunding with a stamp of approval for hardware projects | One of the biggest challenges of a hardware crowdfunding campaign is delivering in a timely fashion. Indiegogo knows that better than most, and is teaming up with Arrow Electronics to help entrepreneurs deliver products through engineering ... |
| 11.05.2016 | OBE Wants To Dress The Fashionable VR Gamer | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Well before the debut of a slew of virtual reality headsets for consumers this year, game makers and other tech companies were getting ready to feed the expected demand for VR... |
| 16.11.2015 | Highway1’s Brady Forrest acquires Ignite event series from O’Reilly Media to promote public speaking | In 2006, Brady Forrest held the first of what would be many Ignite events held around the world. At its peak, more than 360 cities hosted events, in which speakers had five minutes and 20 slides to present their ideas — something that has b... |
| 28.08.2015 | Morning Read: Novo Nordisk acquires 2 U.S. biotechs targeting diabetes, insurers get greenlight on double digit rate hikes | — PharmaTimes
Some insurers have received the double digit rate increases they were seeking after state commissioners agreed that the increases were needed to cover higher-than-expected claims from sick people who signed up for individual p... |
| 03.03.2015 | PCH Buys Design Portal Fab In Stock And Cash Fire Sale | PCH, the custom design and manufacturing business, has made one more step into the world of direct-to-market sales. It has closed its acquisition of Fab — the e-commerce design portal that rose to dizzying heights of hype before crashing do... |
| 03.03.2015 | A brief history of Fab, from mega-hype to crash and burn | Today e-commerce site Fab.com sold to PCH International, an Irish company that works with startups to create and manufacture products.
To honor this once hot startup, we’ve put together a timeline of events starting with Fab’s entry into th... |
| 03.03.2015 | It's official: Fab has been sold off to PCH | No financials were disclosed, but Fab, once valued at $1 billion, is said to have sold for $15M
Fab, the once might company that was worth $1 billion, has officially fallen.
The company announced on Tuesday that it has been sold to PCH Inte... |
| 17.12.2014 | PCH and Highway 1 Host Demo Day for 11 New Hardware Graduates | On December 9 PCH and Highway 1 held their third Demo Day at an invitation-only event in San Francisco. Highway 1, a division of PCH headed by Brady Forrest, is a hardware accelerator focused on aspiring entrepreneurs and inventors with a h... |
| 21.11.2014 | Silicon Alley blues: Fab may be latest high-profile NYC startup to sink | It appears Fab.com is about to be a member of a club no one wants to join.
The e-commerce company is on the verge of being sold for as little as $15 million to custom manufacturer PCH International, according to a report from TechCrunch. Th... |
| 20.11.2014 | PCH International In Talks To Buy Fab For $15 Million | Multiple sources have confirmed that Fab is in talks to sell to PCH International for $15 million, in a half cash and half stock deal. Another source put it at possibly as much as $50 million.
Contractual agreements are in the very early st... |
| 08.09.2014 | PCH’s Liam Casey On The “Renaissance Of Prototyping” | Liam Casey is best known as “Mr. China,” the founder and CEO of PCH, which sources, designs and manufacturers custom hardware for Fortune 500 companies and startups in Shenzhen. Before founding PCH in 1996, however, he spent 10 years in the... |
| 14.08.2014 | Heads-Up Display Navdy Hits $1M In Pre-Orders During First Week | Navdy, the voice and gesture-controlled heads-up display that wants to keep your eyes on the road, hit $1 million in pre-orders in its first week of the company’s pre-order campaign.
Doug Simpson, CEO and founder of Navdy, says the response... |
| 23.07.2014 | LittleBits Goes Brick And Mortar As It Joins The Internet Of Things | The electronics kit manufacturer littleBits is taking its next steps to make everyone into an engineer and designer — now with the Internet of Things. The company has begun selling its cloudBit and Cloud Starter Bundle for making any little... |
| 04.06.2014 | Radio Shack Teams Up With PCH International To Create A Retail Pipeline For Hardware Startups | Electronics retailer Radio Shack is teaming up with hardware manufacturer and accelerator PCH International to bring 6 square-foot “Powered by PCH” retail spaces to stores in the United States. This area will feature hardware startups that ... |
| 21.08.2013 | FounderDating expands its entrepreneur matchmaking to the rough world of hardware | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Making hardware is tough, but FounderDating is trying to make it a bit easier.
The members-only LinkedIn for entrepreneurs is launching... |
| 28.06.2013 | Making hardware is hard — just ask Apple or Samsung | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If Keller Rinaudo is right, a lot of ambitious hardware hackers are about to get a cold, hard smack in the face from reality.
Rinaudo i... |
| 26.06.2013 | Hardware nerds, rejoice! New incubator will turn prototypes into commercial products | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Many hardware startups stumble when they attempt to move from prototype to large-scale manufacturing.
To help these companies scale, Hi... |
| 25.06.2013 | CE Manufacturing Specialist PCH International Launches Its Hardware Incubator, Highway1 | Electronics manufacturing specialist PCH International is looking to find new clients just as they start. To do so, it’s creating an incubator called Highway1 that will help young hardware startups build new products.
PCH International is r... |
| 02.06.2013 | Why VCs should love hardware startups | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Skip Fleshman is a partner at Asset Management Ventures.
Venture capitalists hate investing in hardware startups for a myriad of reason... |
| 02.06.2013 | Why VCs should love hardware startups | Skip Fleshman is a partner at Asset Management Ventures.
Venture capitalists hate investing in hardware startups for a myriad of reasons. Design and iteration are more difficult. Margins are low. Manufacturing issues are unpredictable. Inve... |
| 24.05.2013 | Mr. China Goes To San Francisco | A block from the Mariposa on-ramp and in the eye-line of 90,000 cars whizzing by on 280 sits an old warehouse that was home to the San Francisco Bay Guardian, a local alt weekly, and Digg. Most of the building is gutted, and inside they are... |
| 05.04.2013 | This heart rate sensor is worn around the ear, connects with an app aimed at reducing stress | The device will be commercially available in the U.S. and Europe in mid-2013, and will cost $99 — comparable to the Fitbit One.
PCH created the accelerator after working with the sleep-tracking digital health company Lark.
[Photo by Zinc So... |
| 19.10.2012 | Gadget Maker PCH International’s 2011 FY Results: Revenue Up 72% To $720M, Driven By Smartphone, Tablet Demand | Chinese manufacturing company PCH International has announced its 2011 full year results — reporting a big rise in revenue and record profits off the back of strong demand for smartphones, tablets and ereaders. The company, which has its co... |
| 18.10.2012 | Meet Autom, The Quantified Self Robot That Is Your Next Diet Coach, Made By PCH And Intuitive Automata | The world is becoming increasingly populated with robots, and consumers are eating it up. Now, the latest robot to hit the market will help you keep your calories down in the process. PCH International, the company that teams with startups ... |
| 11.10.2012 | Relationships helped Lark move from prototype to shelves in one year with less than $1 million | From a business perspective, Lark is capitalizing on a business trend that founder and CEO Julia Hu said is emerging. “You’ve seen a lot of startups starting to tackle hardware, and I’d like to think part of the reason is because hardware m... |
| 27.08.2012 | Logistics company to help Silicon Valley box its gadgets better | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Imagine opening a beautifully packaged iPad, whose very box is aesthetically pleasing and minimally wasteful.
Now imagine unpacking an ... |
| 17.06.2012 | Crowd-funded Robots Are On Their Way Says ‘Mr China’ | There’s nothing like a good conference to create opportunities for new deals, and F.ounders last week in New York was just such an event. Indeed, on the panel I ran about the international tech scene, Dimitry Grishin, the co-founder and chi... |
| 15.06.2012 | Hardware Accessory Maker PCH International Acquires Design-Centric Lime Lab | You may have never heard of PCH International. But this Irish company makes packaging and accessories for some of the most iconic hardware products in the world. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink! They make cases, chargers, docks and earphones, amon... |
| 09.06.2011 | PCH International Raises US$30M in Venture Capital Funding | PCH International, a global provider of integrated supply chain solutions and accessories for eReaders, tablets and smartphones, has raised US$30m in venture capital funding.
New investors include Northbrooks Investments (an indirect wholly... |
| 07.06.2011 | Electronics Manufacturing Company PCH International Raises $30 Million | We’ve written quite a bit about PCH International, a China-based supply chain solutions company and a leader in the accessories market for e-readers, tablets and smartphones. Most recently, we covered the launch of their business accelerato... |
| 24.05.2011 | PCH International Launches Business Accelerator Program; Lark Named First Startup | PCH International is one of those quirky, successful mid-size companies you’ve probably never heard of. For starters, PCH is a Chinese manufacturing company named after a California highway that has headquarters located in Ireland. If you h... |
| 23.02.2011 | PCH International, Gadget Maker Extraordinaire, Raises Another $26 Million | PCH International isn’t your normal Chinese manufacturing company. They’re located in Shenzhen, a sleepy fishing village in the 1970’s that is now home to 9 million people. It’s an Irish company, headquartered in Cork, Ireland. And to make ... |
| 21.01.2011 | Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Twitter Takes Best Startup Of 2010 | This year’s fourth annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those who weren’t at the event or watching our livestream, we’ve included the list of nominees and winners below... |
| 07.01.2011 | Announcing Your 2010 Crunchies Finalists | The finalists for the 2010 Crunchies Awards have been chosen. Over 243,000 votes were made across all categories and many outstanding achievements were discussed. Along with our partners GigaOm and VentureBeat, we are very proud to announce... |
| - | This heart rate sensor is worn around the ear, connects with an app aimed at reducing stress | A mobile health company in Ireland has raised an $845,000 seed round and partnered with the European accelerator program of PCH International to commercialize a heart rate monitor that clips to the ear.
Zinc Software raised 650,000 Euros in... |
| - | A Realist’s Outlook Of The Hardware Game: Courtesy Soaib Grewal, Venture Partner At 500 Startups | With the advent and virality of 3D printing and IoT, healthcare being re-envisioned with product innovations, fashion getting a makeover with Snapchat’s Spectacles and drones being used to catch Pokemon (ha!), the hardware sector has been g... |
| - | Relationships helped Lark move from prototype to shelves in one year with less than $1 million | With two product launches under its belt, two-year-old digital health startup Lark Technologies is an example of what can happen when you really take the time to get to know the right people.
Lark’s flagship product, a sleep tracker and coa... |
| - | Morning Read: Novo Nordisk acquires 2 U.S. biotechs targeting diabetes, insurers get greenlight on double digit rate hikes | TOP STORIES
Novo Nordisk is acquiring Indiana-based Calibrium LLC and MB2 LLC, both of which are relatively fresh on the scene and working on drug targets for diabetes and metabolic diseases. The financial details are still being kept under... |
