Industry Audio technology Products Flow Founded 2012 | Key people Ketan Rahangdale Website www.eartop.com Headquarters Orlando, Massachusetts | |
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EarTop Technologies is an audio technology company that designs and manufactures wireless audio and video products.
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History
EarTop was legally formed in January 2012 by co-founders Ketan Rahangdale and Jiayu Ni. As of February 2013, Rahangdale is the CEO and the headquarters are in Orlando, Florida.
Rahangdale was a freshman at Babson College’s entrepreneurship program when he started EarTop, but transferred to University of Miami to be closer to his business partners. As of March 2012, the company had 14 in-house engineers. The company was formed after Rahangdale entered elevator-pitch and business plan competitions and raised $250,000 in angel funds.
The company motto is “Life Unplugged.” It generated $1 million in revenue in 2012.
Eartop never delivered on their kickstarter campaign and has gone out of business. No one from the company will comment further.
Flow Product
Flow is EarTop’s first product. It plugs into the auxiliary input of Beats by Dr. Dre Bose headphones, Beats Solo and Studio headphones, Bose Quiet Comfort headphones, or speakers so that they work wirelessly. It uses enhanced data receiving (EDR) technology similar to Bluetooth. EarTop claims that sound does not lose quality when it goes wireless using Flow.
Flow took six months of research and development costing almost $250,000. EarTop has filed 6 provisional patent applications for Flow.
Awards
Kairos Society named company to its list of 50 Most Innovative Student-Run Companies in the World. Additionally, EarTop and CEO Ketan Rahangdale are listed on the 2012 Empact 100 list.
In 2012, Inc. Magazine listed EarTop as one of its “7 Hot Dorm Room Inventions” and one of “America’s Coolest College Start-Ups 2012.”