The seed round was led by RMR Capital, with participation from R/GA Ventures, Bullet Time Ventures, NYU Innovation Venture Fund, Rugged Ventures, Galvanize Ventures, and Brand Foundry Ventures, as well as strategic investors American Family Ventures and Comporium, Inc. Keen Home's first product is the Smart Vent which allows homeowners to control airflow to different rooms.
The team raised a $4.5 million Series A from TDJ Pitango Ventures, Innovation Nest, and Market One Capital.
Its services include voice, mobile broadband, mobile applications, mobile marketing business, authentication, location-based, mobile payment, machine-to-machine communications, digital media, internet ventures, innovation channels and entrepreneurship, and international roaming.
Investors in the seed round include HearstLab (which also invested in KitSplit's pre-seed funding), Entrepreneurs Roundtable, 3311 Ventures, NYU Innovation Venture Fund, WTI and Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger.
We provide indications for other entrepreneurs and academic scholars who are dealing with venture creation and radical innovation, especially in the agri-food sector.
We tried to answer this research question firstly by discussing the issue of new venture creation and radical innovation in the agri-food sector.
In order to answer this research question we first start discussing the issue of new venture creation and radical innovation in the agri-food sector, since eating insects can be perceived as radically innovative in developed countries.
As we navigate the world of corporate america, corporate venture, and innovation at the intersections of big companies and innovation - one of the things that's constantly creating friction is the place between doing what we normally do because that's the way we've been doing it, and frankly breaking a few rules and trying something new.
Additional investors in the Series C included TransLink Capital, Rakuten Ventures, Menlo Ventures, WI Harper, Brighteye Ventures and Innovation Endeavors.
