Pebble, the smartwatch that started life on Kickstarter, has received an extra $15 million in funding. The additional funding from investors, on top of the $10.2 million received through its Kickstarter campaign.
The Series A Funding comes from Charles River Ventures, with the startup looking towards growing its software engineering team to expand Pebble’s open development platform, as well as scaling the company to match customer demand. Excluding the Kickstarter, this is not the first round of funding that the company has received, as TechCrunch reports four angel investors from Y Combinator and Draper Fisher Jurveston provided $375 early in the product’s life.
