Elephants & Ventures

27/01/2015

PRYNT is now live on Kickstarter, already $75k after 75min! It's time to get yours => http://kck.st/15Fjvoz

Plug in your phone, snap a picture, and get a printed photo in seconds. Then watch your photos come to life through augmented reality!

17/01/2015

Lima has shipped its first 100 units to backers! via Rude Baguette

Following a strong performance at CES, Lima has shipped 100 units to the Very Early Bird backers of its Kickstarter Campaign, the company announced on its

04/01/2015

2015 starts well! We're Happy (and proud) to announce that ISKN raised a $2 Million round with Partech Ventures, Pascal Cagni, Kima Ventures and CEAI.

As much as some of us hate to admit it, paper is still around despite the fact that we live in the "digital age."

14/11/2014

Meet PRYNT demo in Techcrunch! The revolution is coming (soon).

Hot off of their Haxlr8r demo day presentation last week, hardware startup Prynt was nice enough to drop by TechCrunch HQ to show off the latest prototypes of..

12/11/2014

"5 questions you need to ask yourself before ". Learn how to prepare a Kickstarter or Indiegogo right!

Crowdfunding is not magical, successful campaigns are the result of a long and thorough preparation.The aim of the presentation is to give 5 tips to hardware e…

11/11/2014

For french readers, our "10 figures you need to know before launching on Kickstarter" explained in Les Objets Connectés

Une étude sur le site de financement participatif Kickstarter décrit les conditions optimales de lancement d'une campagne de crowdfunding dans les domaines

26/10/2014

Great sessions with HW startups at Buildit accelerator in Estonia last week talking about hardware financing and how to succeed your Kickstarter campaign! Heelosophy Comfee

21/10/2014

Happy (and proud) to announce that Green Creative raised a $750,000 seed round!

La startup 100% française GreenCREATIVE vient d'annoncer avoir bouclé une levée de fonds de 600 000 euros

20/10/2014

Back from an GREAT week in CHINA:
✓ HK Electronics Fair
✓ HK Sourcing Fair
✓ Mentoring & visiting amazing startups at Haxlr8r
✓ 2-day Factory Tour in Dongguan
✓ Bonus Teppanyaki-Saké dinner with local partners
= Exciting news to come for the Hardware Club ! ;)

24/09/2014

Did you know successful Kickstarter (i.e. $500k+) tech projects ship on average with a 7-month delay? A guest post on Rudebaguette explaining the results of our latest presentation "10 figures you need to know before launching your Kickstarter campaign".

The following is a guest post from Alexis Houssou & Barbara Belvisi, co-founders of Elephants&Ventures, a venture boutique helping hardware startup

28/08/2014

Interesting article on the correlation between hardware crowdfunding success and vc money invested.

Crowdfunding dollars are only one source of capital for hardware startups. The other source, the one that gets even more attention, is venture capital. In the..

11/07/2014

Great post by Meet Lima on LeWeb blog on hardware startups and why crowdfunding is not just for potato salad! Thanks for the mention ;-)

Severin Marcombes is the CEO and co-founder of Lima, a new device developed following a $1.2m Kickstarter campaign. Here, he explains what crowdfunding means for young hardware companies.