News about HWTrek in the media.
HWTrek, a Taipei-based startup that connects hardware makers with experts to help build marketable products, today announced it has completed a US$4 million series A round of funding led by WI Harper and ITIC, followed by Legend Star Capital, JD, and Global Brain. HWTrek acts as an end-to-end platform where a maker can turn his [...]
HWTrek, a Taipei-based platform that connects hardware startups with manufacturers and other resources, has scored a $4 million Series A. The funding was led by WI Harper and ITIC. Legend Star Capital (the investment arm of Legend Holdings, Lenovo’s parent company), Chinese e-commerce platform JD.com, and Tokyo venture capital firm Global Brain also participated. The [...]
Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration. In this sharing economy era of open software and open hardware, you might say it’s just another overhyped term. But I bet any startup or founder can argue otherwise. Communication and exchange, as general markers of joint processes, can turn into quite a problem for any team, especially when it comes to [...]
Hardware development, like many engineering projects, is typically a group effort, with contributors increasingly working from home or across multiple buildings, organizations, states, countries, and continents rather than face-to-face. And as a new wave of hardware start-ups are finding out, coordinating those contributors often requires more sophisticated tools than just e-mail and phone calls. “Hardware [...]
Innovation is all around us—especially in today’s fast-moving world of M2M-enabled connected devices. Good ideas may be a dime a dozen, but the ability to take a concept through the development and production process requires more than just the right idea; it requires the right combination of partners, tools, and support. HWTrek, www.hwtrek.com, a unique [...]
Since its inception in November last year, Taiwan based HWTrek started out as a cross between a crowd-funding and a manufacturing advisory platform for hardware companies. But now, HWTrek is putting more attention on the manufacturing advisory side and has newly created a platform called the HWTrek Project Development Hub. Many fresh hardware entrepreneurs have [...]
Yesterday Mobile Geeks attended a debut meetup event from new Taiwan based crowdfunding platform HWTrek. Created in collaboration with TMI Holding Corporation, a Taiwan based incubator that makes early stage investments with local talent trying to tackle global markets, HWTrek seeks to offer hardware entrepreneurs from around the world the chance to realize their ideas [...]
Crowdfunding, which uses the Internet to pool small investments from many investors, is still a nascent market. But the success of the Pebble smart watch project which raised over $10 million through Brooklyn-based crowdfunding site Kickstarter, has encouraged the emergence of more crowdfunding platforms including Florida-based Peerbackers and China-based Demo hour. This article by Lorraine [...]
The hardware entrepreneur movement is gathering steam with more options and services emerging in its ecosystem. However, this time around those options are located outside the United States. Yesterday, I spoke to HWTrek, a newly-launched global platform for crowdfunding and contract manufacturing services. The Taiwan-based site aims to cater to hardware entrepreneurs based in the [...]
HWTrek seeks to help people overcome the manufacturing hurdle in getting their crowdfunded hardware projects off the ground through mentorship. Lucas Wang, the CEO of HWTrek, isn’t that impressed with FitBit’s Force activity tracker. Examining the device in his Taipei office, Wang offers a critique of the device: the display is not aligned perfectly with [...]