Elephants & Ventures

iskn is a consumer electronics company that develops and markets the slate for smart drawing. iskn is the leading pioneer in AUGMENTED INTERACTION thanks to its technology representing 24 international patents based on 60 years of deep tech R&D expertise in magnetometry at the world-renowned CEA LETI. The company’s primary mission consists in enriching the experience and facilitate interaction with the digital world by bringing back emotion through the use of day-to-day physical objects. This has already come to life by turning any pencil into a digital one with the widely adopted SLATE, and the yet to come disruptive REPAPER graphic tablet.

Aryballe Technologies was created in Grenoble/France by a team of scientists and entrepreneurs. As a technology platform their main objectives are to develop new generations of universal sensors which can be adapted to different applications. In parallel to their core hardware development activities they are also organized to handle the software + database development and full manufacturing of their sensors and devices.

Prynt is the instant camera case for smartphones. Just plug in the device, take a picture, and voila, get a beautiful photo within seconds. The case is simple with no ink, wifi, or bluetooth and is compatible with iOS and Android phones. When a photo is taken with Prynt, the app embeds a video inside of it and gives a creative new way to tell the story.

Blocks provide a locker solution. They offers software, architecture, lockers, co-working, mobile apps, design, facility management, parcel lockers, rental systems, and agile workplaces.

Closed. For current company Reach Robotics see https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/reachrobotics

Shortcut Labs is a creator of wireless smart buttons that offers physical shortcuts to digital functions in mobile devices. Its first product is a wireless push button that launches a preconfigured task on the users’ phones whether the users are on the go, at home, or at work. Shortcut Labs’ buttons are sold in packs of two in retail and as single units on its website. It also creates apps for iOS and Android with many different functions, as well as an open API that provides support for the buttons in any app. Shortcut Labs was founded in 2013 by Pranav Kosuri, Tomas Ohlson, Joacim Westlund, and Amir Sharifat. It is headquartered in San Francisco, C.A.

Lima disrupts the way computers work. We believe it's time for your devices to work as a group & no more as independant computers. So we're building the 1st cross-device OS.

Keecker is a life-changing device for any home in the world. All homes need digital entertainment, security and communication: Keecker provides all three and more. Keecker is the first robot that provides entertainment, security, communication and smart data for the entire home at once. A large screen, great sound, a camera, a powerful computer and environmental sensors, not in one particular location but in all rooms as it moves autonomously throughout the home. Inside the robot is an Android-based computer on which any Google Play store app can be downloaded. It contains a smart video projector that can be oriented at 90° to have a screen on a wall, a door or a ceiling. Its sound system is second to none, providing a great surround sound wherever it is. Its camera, great for group chats, captures at 360° all around it and displays everything it sees and everyone around it at once. Keecker also captures and analyses home essential information (temperature, humidity, CO2, light, noise levels) to take the pulse of homes and alert users in real time in case of unusual events. Finally Keecker maps homes and continuously learns about its environment, people and usage patterns. Users can call it to come to them, follow them or go check in particular rooms. Keecker provides these possibilities to every room. So you can watch Netflix, cinema size, in your bed, get the kids to play in their room, Skype with friends while cooking, freely, cable-free, simply and intuitively. Even while away from home, the Keecker smartphone application lets you check in, move around remotely see anywhere at home, chat and be seen: as close as it gets to teleportation. Their principles: open (through Android and their open SDK), smart (through machine learning and AI), safe (through secure and user centric encryption). Keecker’s robot is the next home platform for new apps, new usages centered around collective use cases.