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Pebble Smartwatch

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Pebble Smartwatch

Year
2012
Creator
Eric Migicovsky
Company
Pebble Technology
Location
Palo Alto, California

Description

The Pebble is a plastic smartwatch with a low-power e-paper screen that shows notifications from a phone. Eric Migicovsky's company raised the money to build it on Kickstarter between April and May 2012.

Importance

Migicovsky had been in Y Combinator, but venture capitalists did not fund the new watch. The Kickstarter campaign earned $10,266,845 from 68,929 backers, a record for the site at that time. Pebble later sold more than 2 million watches and then sold parts of its business to Fitbit in late 2016.

Interesting fact

The campaign reached its goal of $100,000 within hours of its start on Kickstarter.

Sources

  1. Pebble smartwatch raises $4.7 million on Kickstarter funding site ↗Los Angeles Times · 2012-04-18
  2. Hands On With Pebble Smartwatch, the Most Successful Kickstarter Project Ever ↗Wired (Alexandra Chang) · 2012-05-14
  3. Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android (final campaign page, Internet Archive copy) ↗Kickstarter · 2012-06-01
  4. Success and Failure at Pebble ↗Eric Migicovsky (first published on Medium) · 2022-04-11