Ringly, the maker of a line of good jewelry for girls including a high-tech ring that buzzes and lights up while you obtain a cellphone call or textual content, has raised $5.1 million in Sequence A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, the company announced this morning. To date, Ringly has raised $6.1 million. The funding comes shortly after Ringly wrapped up pre-sales for its ring, which is at present sold on-line. The device, which comes with different stones and band choices, was dreamed up by Christina Mercando, who used to work as a Senior Product and Design Manager at eBay. She realized that many girls have a behavior of keeping their phones in their purses, and so have been lacking important calls and texts. The idea with Ringly is that the jewelry itself will provide you with a warning to these incoming messages, even when your phone is out of reach. At Ringly, Mercando is joined by a team of designers and engineers hailing from MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Stanford whose backgrounds embrace neuroscience, machine studying and mechatronics.

The Ringly gadget comes in a couple of types at current. The "Launch" collection rings are 18K matte gold with a three micron plated setting and feature treasured and semi-valuable stones. "Limited" assortment rings, meanwhile, are made with a rhodium plated setting and a tourmalated quartz semi-valuable stone. There are several stones to choose from together with black onyx, pink sapphire, rainbow moonstone, emerald, and the quartz for the "Limited" assortment ring. Mercando says that the moonstone was the top seller until they debuted their Restricted assortment, and now that’s the preferred. The ring additionally syncs with an iOS or Android utility that’s used to configure how it responds to incoming calls, texts, emails, and even updates from favourite apps, like Facebook. Four completely different vibration patterns are available, allowing you to set off specific events to provide you with a warning in a different way from others. Netflix, ElevenLabs, Wayve, Sequoia Capital - just a few of the heavy hitters joining the Disrupt 2025 agenda.

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