January 11th, 2013

TC Cribs: SmartThings Gambles On The Connected Home In Vegas

TC Cribs: CES Edition from the SmartThings House

SmartThings doesn’t just come to Vegas and set up a boring old booth. These guys rented out a palatial villa just outside of downtown, both for the practical purposes of giving themselves a place to crash, and also to give them an easy way to show off their product and platform for building a whole home “open physical graph.” Home automation and mobile remote control were a tent pole theme of this… → Read More

December 4th, 2012

SmartThings Closes $3M Seed Round, Led By First Round Capital, Launches Competition To Grow Community Of Smart Object Developers

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Internet-of-things startup, SmartThings, has closed a $3m seed round. The round was led by First Round Capital and includes contributions from a swathe of angel networks and angels, including SV Angel, Lerer Ventures and CrunchFund. The startup will use the funding to launch a competition to grow the size of its 1,000-strong developer/maker community. → Read More