Pearl Automation Inc. was a company building aftermarket automobile technology, focused on delivering “driver awareness features” and helping to “speed up the pace” of technology adoption in cars. Pearl was founded by Bryson Gardner, Joseph Fisher, and Brian Sander in 2014 and announced its first product in June 2016. The company was based in

Scotts Valley, California Scotts Valley is a small city in Santa Cruz County, California, United States, about thirty miles (48 km) south of downtown San Jose and six miles (10 km) north of the city of Santa Cruz, in the upland slope of the Santa Cruz Mounta ...

Products

The Pearl Rear Vision product was purchased by American Road Products Inc. as Pearl Automation Inc. closed its operations. Pearl’s first product, Rear Vision, was an aftermarket automotive backup camera and alert system that attaches around a license plate and sends video directly to your smartphone. The system is solar powered and included two wide angle high-definition cameras. Pearl sells products directly to consumers through its website,

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Crutchfield Crutchfield Corporation is a North American retailer specializing in a wide range of electronics, including mobile audio and video equipment for the automobile, along with speakers, televisions, and other electronics for home or portable us ...

. In January 2017, Pearl announced a partnership with Installer Net. The company went defunct in 2017.

Funding

Pearl has raised $50 million in Series A and B venture capital rounds, from investors

Shasta Ventures Shasta Ventures is an early-stage venture capital investment firm located in Silicon Valley that invests in enterprise and technology consumer startups. It is located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. Funds Shasta's second fund of US$250 milli ...

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Venrock Venrock (portmanteau of Venture and Rockefeller) is a venture capital firm formed in 1969 to build upon the successful investing activities of the Rockefeller family that began in the late 1930s. It has offices in Palo Alto, California, New York ...

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Wellcome Trust The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome (founder of one of the predecessors of Glax ...

References

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