Jiobit

The world's smallest and longest lasting self-learning smart tag that that keeps track of your most precious asset, your kids, wherever they are.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Electronics / Instrumentation
  • Location Chicago, IL, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded October 2015
  • Employees 12
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website jiobit.com

Company Summary

Jiobit is the first of its kind always on, self learning location aware system enabling the world’s smallest connected products with industry leading battery life that delivers 10-20x the battery life at 50% the size. According to Digital Trends, "this tech could change wearables forever."

Our first product is the world's smallest and longest lasting smart tag that that keeps track of your most precious asset, your kids, wherever they are.

Team

  • CEO, Founder

    Self taught software developer turned product & business executive who builds innovative products, business, and teams.

    Most recently a VP @ Motorola where he created and launched the award winning Moto Maker platform, the world’s first mass customization for smartphones. John scaled that business from scratch to 9 digit revenues and operations across 7 countries in 2 years.

  • CTO, Co-founder

    Product engineering leader with 30+ years of experience in product conceptualization, design, and validation.

    Seasoned manager leading multidisciplinary teams of up to 100 associates. He has 35+ filed patents.

  • Claudio Ribeiro
    Product Design

    Award winning industrial designer and startup veteran with a focus in mobile and wearable technologies. Claudio also teaches design innovation @ University of Illinois - Chicago.

    His previous work spans consumers brands such as Black & Decker, Burton snowboards, Shick, Motorola, and many others. He holds 80+ utility and design patents.

  • Chen Je Huang
    UX Design & Product Management

    Senior Design & Product lead with a track record of launching consumer devices and services that won the Best of CES and critical acclaim from The New York Times, Fortune, CNET, Engadget, Verge, and PCMag.

    Most recently, Chen-Je was brought onto a Series A startup (Livongo Health) to establish the design for consumer-driven healthcare.

  • Software Engineering

    Software Developer and Architect in the development of software for mobile devices and mobile cloud backend.

    Recent experience includes working as Android Dev Architect Lead in Silicon Valley startups. Alex is also inventor of 7 patents.

  • Electrical Engineering and System Architecture

    Tinkerer extraordinaire.
    If you have an idea about some cool gizmo…he’s probably already got it built in his garage. Pete rolls up his sleeves and wants to solve problems and engineer cool shit.

    When he needs more hours in the day, to work on fun stuff, he automates the boring parts and creates robots to do the work for him.

  • Mitul Patel
    Systems Architect

    Innovative sensors expert and electrical architect for the last 10 years. Responsible for designing low power, low cost systems, while also managing supplier relationships and technology roadmaps.

    Prior to JIO, Mitul ran the EE development at CUFF Inc. and was responsible for developing the biomed sensors for the Moto 360.

  • Lindsay Slutzky
    CMO

    Mom, wife, and fitness lover, and a sales & marketing professional. Most recently she lead marketing and channel development at Mira Fitness (women's wearables). Prior to Mira, Lindsay led Retail Marketing for Motorola.

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