Flair

Flair makes hardware and software that makes buildings more comfortable and efficient as well as systems for electrification and smart grid interconnectivity.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Consumer Products
  • Location NYC, NY, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded June 2014
  • Employees 6
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website flair.co

Company Summary

Flair builds a Smart Vent suite for rapid retrofitting of central heating and cooling as well as a Minisplit controller compatible with over 1 Billion non smart air conditioners operating today as well as systems for electrification and smart grid interoperability. We have solid traction (over 3000 users with nearly 30,000 units shipped) and allstar team (ex-Tesla, ex-Nest, ex-Google, ex-Microsoft, Northwestern, Columbia, Oxford).

Team

  • Experience building embedded systems hardware and software, robotics, large distributed anayltics platforms and leading teams. Before entering the workforce, I attended Northwestern University where I obtained a BA in French Horn Performance, a BS in Computer Engineering, and an MS in Computer Science in 5 years. I also met my cofounder Kenny where we built competitive autonomous robots for a number of years.

  • CTO

    Kenny hails from Singapore before he attended Northwestern University. At NU, he got a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Computer Science. While at NU he met Dan and they built autonomous robots together amongst other projects. After NU Kenny worked for Microsoft/Skype to help them offload video processing from software to dedicated hardware on handset devices. He is an expert in circuit design, software and embedded systems.

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