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Lumoid

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Last activity: 15.12.2022

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We make it incredibly easy to try and buy amazing gear. Head over to https://www.lumoid.com/facebook

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Employees: 11-50

Phone: +1 800-683-5690

Founded date: 2014

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15.12.2022	A Y Combinator-backed startup just raised $39 million to develop new psychedelic treatments for depression	Jonathan Sporn is the founder and CEO of Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals. Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals wants to develop the next generation of psychedelic medicines. The company is creating psychedelic drugs that work faste...
02.05.2022	Y Combinator-backed startup, Pylon, announces $19 million funding round	Pylon, the infrastructure management platform transforming electricity and water companies in emerging markets, announces a $19 million seed funding round. The seed round for the rapidly-growing startup – which is profitable and grew by 3....
10.12.2017	Why gear rental marketplace Lumoid shut down	Lumoid, a tech gear rental startup is no longer in business and its founder Aarthi Ramamurthy is moving on to Facebook. The startup launched as just a “crazy idea,” when it came out of Y Combinator four and half years ago, Ramamurthy wrote ...
13.06.2017	Best Buy reportedly plans to launch a rental service with used gadgets	After rebounding from what appeared to be certain doom just a few years ago, Best Buy is on the upswing as of late. Sure, they’ve shuttered a whole bunch of their stores, and continue to dip below Amazon in consumer mindshare, but the leane...
26.06.2016	A quick look at the state of hardware technologies in China and beyond	In the past few years hardware investment has come into its own as a major force in the tech world beyond the walls of medical devices (where it had been relegated for years). A recent report from HAX, the hardware accelerator backed by SOS...
20.05.2016	Fundraising Advice From the Female Founders Conference	Last month, Y Combinator hosted its third annual Female Founders Conference, which brought together more than 800 women building women-led startups. Here on the Macro, we’re sharing full videos of the onstage talks from YC alumni and disti...
15.01.2016	Lumoid’s Aarthi Ramamurthy on Tackling Founder Self-Doubt	The founder of gadget rent-to-buy platform Lumoid on the best solution for founder self-doubt, letting data surprise you, and seeing challenges as the new normal. The Macro : From the start, Lumoid had a pretty unique business model. How d...
15.01.2016	Lumoid's Aarthi Ramamurthy on Tackling Founder Self-Doubt	The founder of gadget rent-to-buy platform Lumoid on the best solution for founder self-doubt, letting data surprise you, and seeing challenges as the new normal. The Macro : From the start, Lumoid had a pretty unique business model. How d...
17.11.2015	Lumoid Adds Headphones And Home Audio To Its Try-Before-You-Buy Experience	The thing about being a portable audiophile is that you have to put a lot of trust in online reviews. It’s hard to get the full experience testing out a pair of cans in Best Buy and often places like that are lacking the vast majority of mo...
03.04.2015	The Apple Watch Is Coming—And This Entrepreneur Will Tell You What Else People Are Buying	Wearable World Congress is ReadWrite’s signature annual conference, taking place in San Francisco May 19-20. Every week, we’ll introduce you to interesting speakers you can meet at the event. Forget lining up to get an Apple Watch. Aarthi R...
18.02.2015	50 Women in Tech Dominating Silicon Valley	“One of the things that I really strongly believe in is that we need to have more girls interested in math, science, and engineering. We’ve got half the population that is way underrepresented in those fields and that means that we’ve got a...
08.02.2015	Female Founder Stories: Aarthi Ramamurthy, Founder of Lumoid (YC S13)	Lumoid is a try before you buy service for gadgets and consumer electronics. Instead of going to a physical retailer or paying the full price for a gadget online and then dealing with the hassle of returns and restocking, we make it possibl...
15.01.2015	Lumoid's wearables service lets you try before you buy	Lumoid wants to make the wearable buying experience a little less painful by launching a 'try-before-you-buy' service, allowing users to test five wearables for a limited time and find out which one suits them the best. Users will be able t...
12.01.2015	Lumoid launches a try-before-you-buy service for wearables	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Ever wonder what it would be like to own one of Fitbit’s newest fitness trackers? Now, thanks to a new service, you can get a feel for ...
12.01.2015	Lumoid launches a try-before-you-buy service for wearables	Ever wonder what it would be like to own one of Fitbit’s newest fitness trackers? Now, thanks to a new service, you can get a feel for wearable devices before you commit to buying one. Lumoid, a startup that rents consumer camera equipment ...
25.11.2014	Lumoid Launches A Peer-To-Peer Marketplace For Short-Term Gadget Rentals	Since launching earlier this year, gadget rental market Lumoid has provided a place where camera nerds, amateur photographers, and even drone enthusiasts can try out a bunch of different devices without having to purchase them. Today it’s a...
03.10.2014	Airbnb Lifestyle: The Rise Of The Hipster Nomad	Editor’s note: Prerna Gupta is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, currently working on a stealth project; she is also a nomad. For the past year, I’ve lived exclusively in temporary housing I’ve found on sites like Airbnb. I didn’t s...
05.04.2014	Lumoid (YC S13) Wants To Rent You A Camera Now, And Everything Later	Aarthi Ramamurthy is standing outside of her building talking to her first paying customer, and she’s about to make a product decision. She’s shipped him a camera across country overnight on a rental program, and he’s so in love with it th...
03.04.2014	Lumoid Wants To Rent You A Camera Now, And Everything Later	Aarthi Ramamurthy is standing outside of her building talking to her first paying customer, and she’s about to make a product decision. She’s shipped him a camera across country overnight on a rental program, and he’s so in love with it tha...
28.03.2014	These Are The Most Amazing Indians Working In US Tech	Reshma Saujani with one of her Girls Who Code students. Reshma Saujani Earlier this year, Satya Nadella replaced Steve Ballmer as Microsoft's CEO, underlining the rise of Indians and Indian-Americans in the U.S. tech world. Today, around 15...
20.08.2013	Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 3: Meet Senic, Buttercoin, Crowdery, Reebee And More	Third time’s the charm. We’re here (yep, still) at Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 demo day, covering the wide range of 48 startups pitching their wares to a large crowd of investors, fellow founders and members of the media. [Update: Check out ...
-	Best Buy reportedly plans to launch a rental service with used gadgets	After rebounding from what appeared to be certain doom just a few years ago, Best Buy is on the upswing as of late. Sure, they’ve shuttered a whole bunch of their stores, and continue to dip below Amazon in consumer mindshare, but the leane...

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