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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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