Does YCombinator fund Start-ups interested in building electronic gadgets?
3rd February 2012
My answer to Does YCombinator fund Start-ups interested in building electronic gadgets? on Quora
YC funded InPulse, who make a watch which talks to your smartphone via bluetooth: http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/10...
I don’t think they’ve funded many hardware startups, but it has happened.
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