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Our team flew to China and will be here for three months to kick-off manufacturing with the team at Kaizen Dynamic!
February 10th was Chinese New Year and represented a "design freeze" for InvenTABLE. After this, we were able to test the first InvenTABLE version that had all of its near-final components.
We were determined to find a manufacturing partner that...
After over a month of meeting with various potential partners, we met with Kaizen Dynamic and knew right away that they checked all of the boxes. They are now our official engineering, product development, and supply chain partner.
We met Bart Ruijpers, industrial designer, through a friend and fellow Kickstarter founder. You can read more about our work with Bart here:
We knew that we needed to grow our team in order to grow our business.
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Marlu is an Integrated Product Design Masters student at Penn and our Product Design Intern.
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Collin is a master maker (check out these electric roller blades he designed and built!) and our VP of Engineering.
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Will is an educational game designer, product manager, Japanese speaker, and our Education Product Manager.
Never in our wildest dreams did we think we would actually pass $1M raised on Kickstarter. We were so blown away by the response from our backers and excited to get started. Here's our team celebrating over dinner in Philly!
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