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Jawbone

Consumer HardwareUSAClosed 2017

Total Raised

$930M

Peak Valuation

$3.20B

Employees

Year Collapsed

2017

Business model

Wearable fitness trackers and Bluetooth speakers/headsets.

In brief

One of the earliest wearable fitness tracker makers, Jawbone burned through nearly a billion dollars competing with Fitbit and Apple while stretching into speakers, headsets, and health data. It never found a profitable core product line, and after failed acquisition talks, the c…

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Key facts

Founded
1999
Closed
2017
Headquarters
San Francisco, USA
Industry
Consumer Hardware
Employees
Revenue
Undisclosed

Related failures

Often compared with: Fitbit, Apple Watch, Garmin.