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Photo shoot at the ETH Value Lab – the making of

In July, we had an exciting day at the Value Lab at the ETH Hönggerberg. We invited you to join us and be be photographed by a professional photographer (thomasstoeckli.com) at the Value Lab at the ETH Hönggerberg so that we could develop content for our new website. Thanks to Lukas Peyer, who made it […]

dizmo at TEDx Bangalore ! (Q&A)

At the start of August dizmo were invited to TEDx Bangalore to showcase our software and engage with the exciting technology community in India. Sartaj Anand, Curator of TEDx Bangalore said “TEDxBangalore is extending the experience of sharing amazing ideas worth spreading for the people of the Silicon Valley of India. As a strategic supporter of […]

Credits

So many supporters have contributed and inspired us with their ideas, questions and appreciation and confirmed that we are on the right track to fullfil our mission and bring the future to your fingertips! Whether the contributions were large or small, our gratitude is due to all our contributors. This is also why we created […]

Dizmo Beta Software is now available for download

When we launched our Kickstarter campaign we had a very exciting pledge level that would give some of our backers access to the dizmo beta software 3 months before anyone else.  We are excited to announce that this is now live and available to download! We have been super busy over the last few weeks […]

We have reached our $25,000 Kickstarter goal

dizmo will now go into development of the product version of the software, which will be available from June this year.

We are thrilled to announce that as off today we have smashed our $25 000 funding goal on Kickstarter and we still have more than 2 weeks to go! We are absolutely astounded by the positive response we’ve had so far, and that we hit our goal so quickly. Moreover Kicksarter’s statistics tell us that today we are the most popular project on earth among the 722 projects in our category.

The 1000 names of …

One of the biggest challenges for a start-up company very often is to find a good name. As the first versions of our product were dedicated mainly to home control applications, we used «Kastellan» (which was the term used for the «keeper of the castle» in the middle-ages) as the name of the project and also considered it to be the name of the product. But the more we realized the power of the concepts we had gathered in our product and the quickly broadening range of applications the software was able to support, we had to look for a new name that would better reflect the power and the versatility of the product.

Meet us in Dublin – Web Summit 2013

We are very happy to announce that dizmo has been selected for the Web Summit 2013 Alpha program. There were about 4000 start-up companies from all over the world that applied for the Web Summit Alpha program which gives a bunch of the world’s leading and most innovative starts-ups the chance to exhibit at the two day event. The list of Alpha companies selected in earlier years is impressive an includes names like tumblr, Dropbox, Vine, Twitter, Pinterest, Stripe, Waze, Uber and a lot more.