Kapsul is the “Sonos of room air” creating modular room HVAC products that optimize air-comfort along the dimensions of temperature, humidity, and air quality. Our core conviction is to create fundamentally transformative product designs that cause consumers to see Kapsul as creating a new category. Kapsul products combine award winning design and best in market fit and finish with a novel device control scheme that virtualizes a whole-house HVAC system from individual units that work together seamlessly across device types. Kapsul’s launch product was called the “solution to air conditioning we’ve all been waiting for '' by Tech Insider.
Location: United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $5.4M
Founded date: 2016
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Techstars | techstars.... |
| - | Nextfab | nextfab.co... |
| - | Ben Frankl... | sep.benfra... |
| - | NewBound V... | newboundvc... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 14.11.2018 | Seed | $5M | - |
| 29.05.2018 | - | $400K | Ben Frankl... |
Mentions in press and media 9
| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.08.2021 | Connected Customer Experience Agency Envoy Consolidates Agency Brands Following A Record Year of Growth | “The past year marked a pivotal moment in our company’s history, signifying a change in the way we show up for our clients by helping them put the customer experience at the center of their business strategy,” said Kevin Bauer, CEO of Envoy... |
| 26.03.2021 | Meet Kevin Bauer, managing partner at Envoy Ventures | Envoy Ventures is the investment arm of consulting firm Envoy Group Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed! While there are more startups than e... |
| 09.03.2021 | Envoy Launches Venture Arm to Invest In Pioneering Brands and Experiences of the Future | “We started Envoy Ventures to prove that combining highly accomplished brand-building and digital experience consultants with early-stage investment and operating principles we can make businesses go further, faster.” said Kevin Bauer, CEO ... |
| 26.10.2018 | Startup Kapsul’s Smart AC Unit Lands Offers From Big Retailers Amid Raising $5M | That’s what COO Chris Myers told the Philadelphia Business Journal this week as the Philadelphia-based hardware startup is in the midst of a seed round to fund the rollout of its sleek, Internet of Things-enabled air conditioning units bot... |
| 08.08.2018 | Philly Start-up Kapsul is Making a Quieter Air Conditioner Thanks to $2.3 Million From Crowdfunding | Kapsul, a company that designed a smaller and quieter air conditioning window unit, raised $2.3 million on crowdfunding platforms Indiegogo and Kickstarter in June 2016, said Chris Myers, a Kapsul late-stage co-founder and the chief operati... |
| 02.08.2018 | Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Thursday, August 2 | Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Thursday, August 2. Tesla reported its largest quarterly loss in its history, lost 717.5 million in just 3 months. How long can Tesla ride on the hype? As reported... |
| 29.05.2018 | Kapsul Secures $400K from Ben Franklin Technology Partners | Kapsul, a Philadelphia, PA-based climate product maker, receives $400k investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania. The company will use the funds to commercialize its technology and home climate product of... |
| 21.05.2018 | With $400K From Ben Franklin, Kapsul Gets to Work on ‘smart’ Air Conditioner | Of 2019. Cofounder and CEO Kurt Swanson will be the first to tell you about the wide-ranging effort of research and development that has gone into Noria, an mobile-app-operated window unit that promises to be twice as quiet as regular air c... |
| 21.05.2018 | With $400K from Ben Franklin, Kapsul gets to work on ‘smart’ air conditioner | Kapsul Air, the Center City company behind Philly’s biggest biggest Indiegogo campaign — a whopping $2.3 million in 2016 for preorders of its smart air conditioner — says that after eight re-designs, they should start shipping the sleek pro... |