- Company
- Pebble
- Role
- Founder & CEO
- Est. Net Worth
- $6 Million
- Stage
- Emerging
- Industry
- Tech & SaaS
Eric Migicovsky
Founder & CEO at Pebble
About
Eric Migicovsky founded Pebble in 2012, whose smartwatch became one of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns of its era. After Pebble and a stint building the Beeper messaging app, he relaunched the Pebble platform to make simple, hackable wearables.
Current Company
Pebble — Founder & CEO
The Crowdfunding Pioneer Who Made Smartwatches Real
Eric Migicovsky created Pebble in 2012 with one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns of its era, raising over $10 million from backers who wanted a smartwatch before Apple, Samsung, or Google had entered the market. Eric Migicovsky, a Canadian engineer who had been tinkering with wearable devices since university, built Pebble as a simple, hackable, developer-friendly alternative to the smartphones that dominated the tech landscape.
Pebble shipped over two million watches and built a passionate developer community before the company was acquired by Fitbit in 2016. After Pebble and a stint building the Beeper messaging app, Eric Migicovsky relaunched the Pebble platform to bring back the spirit of simple, open, hackable wearables. Eric Migicovsky's career has been defined by a consistent philosophy: technology should be simple, useful, and open to modification by the people who use it.