| Bringr (Pairable) | |
| Type: | Private |
| Industry: | Consumer electronics |
| Foundation: | 2009 |
| Founder: | James Logan, Chairman Asheem Aggarwal, CEO |
| Location City: | Boston, Massachusetts[1] |
| Location Country: | United States |
Bringrr is a startup company that develops and manufactures electronic tracking systems for commonly used items, including smartphones.[2] [3] [4] The company was founded in 2009 by James Logan.[2] [5] The company's eponymous product is a device that alerts users if they do not have their smartphone when they start their car.[3] [6] Asheem Aggarwal is Bringrr's CEO.[2]
Bringrr was founded by James Logan in 2009 to produce and market Bringrr Reminder (later renamed Bringrr), a cylindrical device that plugs into a car's cigarette lighter and alerts users when the device does not detect the user's smartphone inside the car.[2] [5] At the time Logan, a former co-founder of Microtouch Systems and Gotuit, served as CEO.[5] The company was incubated by Amoskeag Business Incubator in Manchester, New Hampshire and later moved to DifferenceMaker, a startup development program housed at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.[5] [6] The company moved to Boston in 2014.[1]
The company began prototyping Bringrr in October 2012.[7] Aldo Beqiraj, an electrical engineering student at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, was hired as Bringrr's CMO in September 2013. Beqiraj became Bringrr CEO in January 2014.[6] Bringrr successfully completed a $75,000 Kickstarter campaign later that month.[2] [8] In the Fall of 2014, Asheem Aggarwal became CEO of Bringrr, and changed the name to Pairable.
Bringrr's products are Bringrr, a cylindrical device that plugs into a car's cigarette lighter and links with the user's mobile devices, and BringTags, a bluetooth low energy beacon that attaches to common items and pets.[9] [10] BringTags interface with the Bringrr app and sends notifications to the user's phone when tagged items are lost or left behind.[11] [12]
To date no product has been delivered by the Indiegogo campaign nor the Kickstarter campaign.
In July 2015, Bringr opened for pre-orders on amazon.