This Serial Entrepreneur Keeps On Innovating
Summary
Most of our first afternoon was show-and-tell, and Segal has some very impressive accomplishments: He showed me Kinsa, his digital thermometer, which works via sound waves beamed through the iPhones headphone jack. (In 2013, Kinsa became the first official bMuse company to be spun off, and raised $9.4 million in venture funding in a December round led by Kleiner Perkins.) Inspired by that idea, he moved to the U.S. in 1999 and launched a tech startup, eNow, to find a way of enabling people to index and search what others were saying on the internet at any given moment. Chuck Kalmanek, the former head of AT&T Labs Research, and Eric Pite, a mobile-technology executive who worked for TomTom GPS and Motorola, each got sucked in after hearing Segal describe his super secret Thereo device. Originally scheduled to finish on New Years Day, it has been extended until September, says bMuse operating partner Eric Bland, as the project looks for "other opportunities to grow and take on a life of its own."