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ArcTouch found the money in free apps
When App Store prices collapsed, two former college roommates changed who they charged. Their company now builds the apps behind airline journeys, fashion loyalty programs, and connected machines.
Blues Put 10 Years of Connectivity in a Tiny Card - So Hardware Teams Can Skip the Telecom Homework
Ray Ozzie’s latest company turns the messiest parts of industrial IoT into a small module and a JSON request. The payoff is speed; the tradeoff is that Blues works best when machines whisper useful data, not when they stream the world.
Allen Tsai
Allen Tsai is an Austin-based serial entrepreneur and engineer who spent roughly two decades shipping connected consumer electronics for Sony, Microsoft Xbox, Panasonic, Sonos, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments before turning his attention to water. After a month spent building water wells in a Nepali village, he founded Pani, the maker of the Pani Source - a tech-enabled water personalization system often described as the 'Keurig for water.' The device filters, remineralizes and customizes tap water with compostable pods, paired with an app that tracks quality and usage. Pani is Tsai's sixth startup.
Natasha Franck
Natasha Franck is the founder and CEO of EON, a New York company giving every garment a unique Digital ID so it can be traced, resold, repaired and authenticated across its entire life. She left a career in urban planning and smart cities to build the CircularID Protocol, an open standard now powering Digital Product Passports for brands like Coach's Coachtopia, Chloe and Mulberry, and feeding into EU regulation that will make these passports mandatory.