Taking stock of 2013-14 wearable technology venture capital cases

According to the Capital Laboratory global venture Capital database statistics, 2013 can be wearable technology venture capital Trading 64, disclosed investment of 560 million U.S. dollars.

2013 Top 10 Investment

1.Jawbone

Jawbone is currently selling the second generation of up healthy hand ring products, which can track and manage the wearer's sports, living, sleep and other signs of data. In order to gain more health management technology and a greater market share, Jawbone acquired Massivehealth in May with a 100 million dollar acquisition of BodyMedia in February. In terms of financing, Jawbone completed a $93 million trillion in debt financing in September 2013, and $20 million trillion in equity financing, bringing its total financing to $113 million in 2013 years, which will be used for the introduction of data scientists and professional technicians.

2.OculusVR, Inc.

Oculus in June 2013 and December respectively two rounds of a total of 91 million U.S. dollars in venture capital, mainly for Oculus Rift smart glasses to recruit talent and expand production capacity. Oculus Rift smart glasses design is primarily designed to allow players to experience immersive gaming experiences. Now this product can also be extended to education, film production, design and building modeling and many other fields. Oculus said it would take about a year for the product to go on the market, and the current developer version of the product has been sold for about 300 dollars.

3.Leap Motion

Leap Motion received $30 million in 2013 for a B-round financing that will be used to expand technical cooperation and increase retail channels to expand sales of leap products. The leap gesture control device produced by the company looks like a slightly larger USB drive that allows users to manipulate the PC with gestures. As technology is perfected, leap may also be used for other purposes such as mechanical manipulation. At present, the company has received more than 40,000 apps through the developer platform, which means that users will be able to get more applications and games based on leap system in a dedicated app store. Meanwhile, in June this year, leap motion investors Highland Capital invested 25 million of dollars to set up a fund called Leap Fund, used to help companies build leap motion technology platform, will effectively promote the company's hand-gesture recognition technology into education, security, medical and other industries.

4.Pebble Marvell

Pebble Marvell, a Silicon Valley start-up, has designed a smart watch Pebble compatible with iphones and Android phones. This kind of watch can check SMS and caller information, also can surf the internet, receive mail, micro-blog information to remind. In May 2013, Pebble Marvell received a round of 15 million dollar financing to expand the software engineer team, expand the open platform and improve market demand processing capacity. Meanwhile, the Pebble Watch SDK has been upgraded and the Pebble Movement API has been opened, and the third party sports fitness management application will be able to run on the watch.

5.Zepp Labs, Inc.

Zepp Labs, Inc. developed a 3D sensing system golfsense for assistive training, which can be used to correct the user's technical actions on clubs, gloves or tennis rackets, and to help people quickly master batting skills. Golfsens is the world's first portable 3D sensor system, from the internal 4 motion sensors to collect data, calculate the swing speed, position, rhythm and trajectory, and then use iOS Application Data analysis function, analyze each action essentials. The system can be used not only for golf, but also for tennis and baseball. At the end of 2013, Zepp Labs was funded by GGV, June Lian Capital, Bertelsmann, Cherubic Ventures and other 15 million-dollar B-round financing, the total amount of financing amounted to 20 million U.S. dollars.

6.Thalmic Labs

The MYO gesture control system, which is developed by Thalmiclabs, is equipped with 8 sets of EMG sensors and a 9-axis inertial measuring device that can perceive and manipulate the various electronic devices with subtle and complex muscle movements that people make when making gestures. Now the first version of the arm has been able to identify 20 different gestures, including the volume adjustment, and the range of controls will continue to widen. Founded in 2012, the Thalmic Labs team, with 10 team members, gained 14.5 million U.S. dollars in a round of funding from Spark Capital,intel Capital and FundersClub, shortly after the successful incubation of June 2013.

7.Revision Military Inc.

Revision Military is a Canadian company, mainly developed bulletproof glasses, head protection systems and other military protective equipment. May 2013 received 12 million dollar investment from the Canadian Commercial Development Bank (BDC). The company's products are not limited to the protection of all parts of the soldiers, but on this basis to increase the capacity of individual soldier to enhance system integration and other technologies. At present the company's main clients include the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom defense organizations.

8.InteraXon

Interaxon developed a head band product "Muse" that controls other computing devices from brain waves. "Muse" is comfortable and stylish, can detect the wearer's brain wave activity in real time, in order to manipulate the game on the mobile phone or tablet computer, or help people to reduce brain strength, improve memory and so on. Interaxon in July 2013 and August, respectively, a round of 6 million U.S. dollars and 4.17 million U.S. dollars financing. The infusion of funds will help Interaxon create more, including the development of a healthy application platform for improving brain cognitive skills.

9.Novasentis

Novasentis has the world's thinnest tactile actuator and sensor technology, and is ready to use this technology and products for consumer electronics, such as computer keyboards and other fields. Novasentis launched the EMP material is a special electro-reactive polymers, not only thin also can load more high-strength tensile and pressure, which can help equipment control to miniaturization, lightweight human-computer interaction development. In October 2013, Novasentis received a $8 million trillion round of financing from Samsung Venture Capital (Samsung Ventures).

10.Filip Technologies

Filip Technologies 8 million dollars in venture capital in December 2013. The company's children's smart watch, integrated with GPS, mobile phone base station and WiFi triangulation three positioning functions, can help parents understand the location of children. In addition, the Watch can also hold 5 phone numbers, contact parents when needed, or risk emergency alarm and recording. Because it is developed for children, watches are lovely and colourful.

2014 Microsoft &facebook two big acquisitions

Microsoft

In March 2014, Microsoft plans to spend $200 million to acquire the assets and patents of Osterhout design Group (ODG) to accelerate access to the smart wear equipment market. Through the Osterhout Group (ODG) of the relevant patents completed on the wearable equipment market expansion. Microsoft has bought 81 patents, 6 of which have been approved and the remaining 75 in submittal. Microsoft's acquisition amounts to between 100 million dollars and 150 million dollars. Osterhout is an unnamed virtual reality technology company that specializes in developing wearable equipment for the military and government departments, and does not design products for ordinary consumers.

Intel

In March 14, Intel announced that it had completed its acquisition of the basis science transaction. It did not disclose the financial details of the deal, but media reports said Intel had paid about 100 million dollars.

Basis Science is the development of a workout wrist band basis B1, which can read data such as heart rate patterns, sleep stages, exercise, and calorie burning.

Facebook

In March 2014, Facebook spent $2 billion to buy Oculus VR, a leading company for immersive virtual reality technology. This makes it the first time that Google looks so "progressive". Facebook bets that "visual" effects blow a mainstream platform market.

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(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)