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    North

    Winter 2013
    Acquired

    Wearable computing hardware: biosignal gesture recognition

    51 people View on YC

    North at a glance

    Y Combinator batch
    Winter 2013
    Status
    Acquired
    Industry
    Consumer
    Team size
    51 people
    Location
    Not recorded
    Website
    Not recorded

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    About North

    Thalmic Labs is pioneering new ways of interacting with digital devices. With a mission to merge people and technology, the company is revolutionizing how we will interact with technology in the future. Its first product, the Myo™ armband, measures electrical activity in muscles to wirelessly control computers, phones and other digital technologies, resulting in seamless interaction between humans and devices. Founded in 2012 by three graduates of the University of Waterloo's mechatronics engineering program (Stephen Lake, Matthew Bailey, Aaron Grant), Thalmic Labs has grown to a world-leading team of engineers, researchers, and creators committed to building the future of wearable technology. Thalmic Labs has raised over $140M USD to date from investors including Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Y Combinator, and others.

    Tags:
    Hardware
    Biometrics