Angel Sensor
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Angel Sensor developed an open-source wearable-device project.
02 / Angel Sensor FAILURE REASONS
Failure reasons
Angel ran into engineering and financing trouble at once. After a $334,000 crowdfunding raise in 2013, production yields stayed low and backorder fulfillment crawled to about 20 percent, so revenue never caught up with hardware costs. The company downsized R&D, shipped far behind schedule, and went quiet with backers. Unable to reach sustainable manufacturing, it suspended operations in Q2 2017 — a hardware startup dying in the gap between working prototype and manufacturable product.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Operations ended
Angel Sensor ended operations.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
Material for this section is being gathered and checked. It will appear here once ready.
Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
Open hardware is not cheap hardware: sensors that are expensive to manufacture ship obsolete
- 02
Low production yield plus slow fulfillment kills crowdfunding goodwill faster than any competitor
- 03
Raising $334,000 proved demand but not the economics of building at scale
- 04
Silence during delays compounds the damage — backers fill the gap with their own conclusions