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June 2, 2019

Gauzy to Open Stuttgart Factory

CTECH
Tel Aviv-based material science company Gauzy Ltd. is opening a second factory in Stuttgart, the company announced Friday. The factory will produce smart glass products for various industries, particularly the automotive industry, using light-control film technology developed by Woodbury, New York-based Research Frontiers Inc., which allows users to control the opacity of glass or plastic products. The factory is scheduled to open within the next six months.

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September 11, 2018

Gauzy Leads $2M Investment in Research Frontiers

GLASS ON WEB
Research Frontiers Inc. and Israel-based material science company Gauzy Ltd. announced today that Gauzy has lead a group that has invested $2 million in SPD-SmartGlass technology company Research Frontiers. The investors purchased 2,173,916 shares of common stock of Research Frontiers at a price of $0.92 per share (the market price for Research Frontiers common stock at the time the transaction was entered into) and also received warrants expiring September 30, 2023 to purchase 1,086,957 shares of Research Frontiers common stock at an exercise price of $1.10, $1.20 or $1.38 per share depending upon the exercise date.

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October 3, 2017

Avery Dennison Makes Capital Investment in Gauzy

AVERY DENNISON NEWSROOM
Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE:AVY), a global materials science and manufacturing company specializing in the design and manufacture of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials, today said it has made an investment in Gauzy, an Israeli-based developer and manufacturer of liquid-crystal-based materials, films, applications and solutions for a variety of end markets including construction, automotive, consumer electronics, home appliances, the solar industry and more.

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Avery Dennison Signs Agreement to Sell Gauzy's Retrofit Solution for Switchable Films

SIGN & GRAPHICS
Avery Dennison’s Hanita business division, which manufactures specialty films for a number of industrial and commercial applications, has established an agreement with Gauzy to collaborate on the development and marketing of a retrofit version of Gauzy’s switchable window film, which would add to Avery Dennison’s window film product portfolio. Avery Dennison Hanita has identified opportunities in the architecture and retail segments for these solutions. The two companies anticipate further product opportunities will emerge from their collaborative efforts in the automotive industry.

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June 3, 2019

RFID Tags Could Save the UK NHS $500M/Year

PACKAGING WORLD
A new system implemented at one of the U.K.’s National Health Service pathology labs that implements RFID label technology has demonstrated a significant savings in staff, packaging materials, and operational costs. At the Active & Intelligent Packaging Summit Americas event today in New Jersey, Alastair Hanlon, Chief Commercial Officer for PragmatIC, shared details on the project, which employs PragmatIC’s flexible, low-cost RFID labels to track each patient sample from a doctor’s office to the NHS’s Gateshead, U.K., lab.

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April 15, 2019

Chips with Everything as PragmatIC Order Book Busts $20M Mark

BUSINESS WEEKLY
Flexible electronics innovator PragmatIC is riding the crest of a trade tsunami: In just two months it has received orders for over 20 million flexible integrated circuits (FlexICs) across three continents. Orders from customers in Europe, North America and Asia endorse PragmatIC’s technology platform as the optimum solution for introducing connectivity into mass market applications.

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March 15, 2019

The Future is Bright for Smart Packaging

PACKAGING SRATEGIES NEWS
Over the last few years, smart packaging has been a hot topic within the packaging industry, seeing growth of more than 20% per annum in certain sectors. But for it to reach its full potential requires extension of these applications to mass market products. The benefits of incorporating RFID or NFC tags into product packaging are now well proven. Each tag has a unique ID, enabling item-level digital traceability across the entire product life cycle—from production, through the distribution supply chain and into the retail store, ensuring accurate and automated inventory management. Consumers can access personalized product information, promotional campaigns and even recycling guidance—before, during and after purchase—all with a simple tap of an NFC-enabled smartphone. Brands can gain valuable business insights and increase customer loyalty.

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March 13, 2019

On the Smart Track

ELECTRONICS WEEKLY
Flexible integrated circuits are thinner than a human hair, yet robust and durable with no rigid connection points. The ICs are manufactured on a flexible substrate and use a single metal layer antenna to reduce the cost of the tag, resulting in devices that are up to 90% lower in cost than their rigid silicon counterparts. Cambridge-based PragmatIC has developed ‘FlexICs’ which it has manufactured cost-effectively at its Sedgefield, County Durham facility since May 2018, using the FlexLogIC system, described as a ‘fab in a box’.

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March 3, 2019

No Poker Face From Scott as PragmatIC Deals Out Products

CAMBRIDGE INDEPENDENT
PragmatIC has launched the first products in its ConnectIC family. The Science Park-based firm, a world leader in ultra-low cost flexible electronics, has introduced the PR1101 and PR1102 flexible integrated circuits (FlexICs), designed for use in closed high frequency RFID (radio frequency identification) systems. These initial products in the ConnectIC family of flexible RFID circuits bring cost-effective digital traceability and interactivity to everyday objects.

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January 15, 2019

How Arm & PragmatIC Are Developing an E-Nose to Sniff Out Body Odor

CAMBRIDGE INDEPENDENT
An intelligent ‘e-nose’ that could be embedded in clothing and provoke a helpful spray of deodorant if the wearer began to sweat is being developed by Arm with the help of fellow Cambridge technology company PragmatIC. The brilliantly-named PlasticArmPit could also be embedded in packaging to sniff out food that has gone off, or smart bandages to provide crucial early indicators of infection.

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December 17, 2018

Service Bureau, IC Company Team Up on Low-Cost Printed Labels

RFID JOURNAL
Smooth & Sharp Corp. (S&S) and PragmatIC are collaborating to develop a new low-cost NFC and HF label manufacturing solution with PragmatIC’s flexible IC and a printed antenna. The system can be customized for mass production in labels or on packaging.

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Revolutionizing Electronics in Everyday Objects

MANUFACTURING & ENGINEERING MAGAZINE
Standing as a world leader in low cost flexible electronics, PragmatIC enable the potential for trillions of smart objects to engage with consumers and their environment. FlexLogIC is the brainchild of PragmatIC. Showcasing a unique technology platform it is able to successfully deliver complex, flexible and integrated circuits within a variety of everyday objects while being no thicker than a strand of human hair.

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June 21, 2018

PragmatIC Reinvents Electronics Manufacturing for the Mass Market

COMPONENTS IN ELECTRONICS
PragmatIC, a world leader in ultra-low cost flexible electronics, is proud to announce that the first FlexLogIC “fab-in-a-box” has now been installed and commissioned in its facility at Sedgefield, UK. FlexLogIC is a self-contained, fully automated system delivering high throughput manufacturing of ultra-low cost, thin and flexible integrated circuits (FlexICs). In contrast to the traditional silicon industry, FlexLogIC provides a radically different approach to IC fabrication which is aligned to the mass market volumes and low-cost requirements of embedding electronics in everyday objects.

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April 30, 2018

Being PragmatIC About Tracking

AUTOMOTIVE LOGISTICS
A few aspects of the conventional RFID approach can be problematic. One is that the electronic tags can still prove expensive when their numbers reach eight or nine figures. Another is that such tags, though very small, are made with a hard silicon substrate that can make them susceptible to impact damage and in some instances compromise the integrity of protective packaging. So what if these limitations could be removed by way of goods, parts and packages carrying with them, instead, a flexible, ultra-thin tag that is cheaper than silicon but no less robust and requires no hard connection points? That is the prospect held out by the FlexIC device that has now been brought to market after five years of development by a company called Pragmatic, based in Cambridge, UK.

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November 21, 2017

Cheers! Flexible Electronics Smarten Up Packaging

ELECTRONIC SPECIFIER
A smart beer label is not necessarily one that tells you when you have had enough, but one that can use push marketing to prompt drinkers to collect money off vouchers, via a smart label. On other products, it can be used for tutorials, how to use a product like make-up for example, or track and monitor inventory. On other products, it can be used for tutorials, how to use a product like make-up for example, or track and monitor inventory. At the PragmatIC booth at IDTechEx 2017, in Santa Clara, California, the flexible electronics company announced an agreement with smart packaging specialist, Talking Things to embed its flexible ICs into smart packaging.

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May 9, 2017

PragmatIC Unveils Billion Unit Baby

BUSINESS WEEKLY
Flexible electronics trailblazer PragmatIC, headquartered in Cambridge, is establishing a billion-unit production capacity centre by 2018 for its world-leading integrated circuits. Its first FlexLogIC™ fab-in-a-box system is being commissioned to enable mass market roll-out of intelligence for everyday items. Founder and CEO Scott White says the business has secured agreements for installation of its first FlexLogIC system capable of producing billions of flexible integrated circuits.

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PragmatIC Uses Experience in Flexible IC's to Create FlexLogIC System

PRINTED ELECTRONICS
One of the most attractive features of flexible and printed electronics is the ability to be able to cost-effectively produce billions of flexible integrated circuits (IC). While companies are designing these ICs, other companies are working on systems to manufacture the ICs. PragmatIC has successfully developed flexible integrated circuits for a number of industries, including consumer goods, packaging, security printing and mainstream electronics. As the Cambridge, UK-based company moved into manufacturing, it came up with FlexLogIC, its own fab-in-a-box manufacturing design incorporating numerous processes, which it is now developing for the market.

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April 26, 2019

The Connected Restaurant: How Kitchen Manufacturers & Restaurant Managers Can Implement IoT

MODERN RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT
In recent years, the food and beverage industry has garnered a reputation of being “tech resistant.” However, many commercial kitchen manufacturers and restaurant operators are beginning to recognize the efficiencies offered by new technology solutions. According to Rail Media, 73 percent of restaurant operators have agreed that technology provides them a competitive advantage and helps increase profitability.

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November 29, 2019

VeriSolutions Closes Series A Led by Avery Dennison

GLOBE NEWSWIRE
VeriSolutions, an Atlanta-based Internet of Things (IoT) enabled software startup company, has closed its Series A round financing led by Avery Dennison Corporation, a Fortune 500 global materials science and manufacturing company specializing in the design and manufacture of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials, as well as Atlanta-based venture funds Atlanta Seed Company and Service Provider Capital.

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How Temperature Monitoring Can Prevent Food-Borne Illnesses

RESTAURANT INSIDER
Food safety is of utmost importance in the restaurant business. You have a responsibility to provide safe food to your customers. How can you prevent foodborne illnesses? While there are many ways to protect your brand from a food safety crisis, here a few food-borne illnesses that can be prevented with proper temperature monitoring..

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January 30, 2019

Avery Dennison & Wiliot Discuss First Battery-Free Bluetooth Tag

PACKAGING EUROPE
Anticipating a future where paper thin battery-free Bluetooth sensors connect people with packaging and products, Wiliot and Avery Dennison discuss with Packaging Europe the potential of the first battery-free Bluetooth® sticker sensor tag, which has recently raised a $30 million series B for a total of $50 million in funding. Steve Statler, SVP Marketing & Business Development, Wiliot explains the journey so far to Libby White, and Francisco Melo, VP & GM, Global RFID, Avery Dennisonoutlines why they have invested in this potentially ground breaking technology.

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January 25, 2019

Wiliot Unveils Passive Bluetooth Sensor

RFID JOURNAL
Wiliot, a fabless semiconductor company launched in 2017, has unveiled the world's first passive Bluetooth sensor. The device, which is still a prototype, can harvest ambient RF energy from Wi-Fi access points, as well as smartphones connecting to cell towers and other Bluetooth signals. It is also able to detect temperature, pressure and movement, then relay that information to any Bluetooth transceiver.

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January 16, 2019

Samsung Electronics Invests in Israeli Semiconductor Chip Startup

BUSINESS KOREA
Samsung Electronics has invested in Israeli semiconductor firm Wiliot with Amazon, continuing its aggressive move to seek out future growth business from the beginning of the year. Samsung Venture Investment Corp., the venture capital arm of Samsung Electronics, has participated in a US$30 million (33.72 billion won) series B funding round of Wiliot Inc. along with Amazon Web Services Inc. and Avery Dennison Corp., one of the world’s top makers of RFID tags, according to industry sources and foreign news reports, such as Bloomberg and Globes, on Jan. 15.

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January 16, 2019

Waiting for Wiliot's Battery-Free Sticker Sensor

TECH XPLORE
This week a battery-free Bluetooth sticker has been made public, and it is described as gathering its energy instead from radio frequencies. The sticker is from Wiliot, a fabless semiconductor company; it has development headquarters in San Diego and an R&D team in Israel. "We believe that disposable electronics based on battery-free, low-cost systems are the foundation for future IoT systems," said the company CEO Tal Tamir. On January 14 it showed off the sticker-sized Bluetooth sensor tag. With an ARM processor, it is powered by "scavenging energy from ambient radio frequencies," said a press statement.

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January 15, 2019

This Tiny Bluetooth Chip Doesn't Need a Battery Because It Harvests Energy From the Air

THE VERGE
The Internet of Things promises to connect billions of otherwise ordinary devices to the internet, but when each one needs to have its own battery, there’s a limit to how small or cheap they can become. A new paper-thin Bluetooth chip that’s able to operate entirely without a battery could be about to solve this problem. The postage stamp-sized chip from Wiliot is able to harvest energy from the ambient radio frequencies around us, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cellular signals, and use them to power a Bluetooth-equipped ARM processor that can be connected to a variety of sensors.

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January 14, 2019

AWS Invests in Qualcomm-Backed Semiconductor Startup

BLOOMBERG
Amazon Web Services has invested in Wiliot Inc., an Israel and San Diego-based semiconductor company that focuses on wireless technology that tracks the location of goods during manufacturing. Wiliot has closed a $30 million Series B funding round, with investment coming from AWS, Samsung Venture Investment Corp. and Avery Dennison Corp., the company said in a statement Monday.

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May 30, 2019

Case Study: Cisco

WRAPIFY NEWSROOM
Cisco was looking to actively promote their WebEx product to as many attendees as possible while the event was taking place. During the 4-week campaign, Cisco wanted to capture exposed devices and send users to their dedicated event landing page. Enter: Wrapify. Overall, Cisco’s goal was to get landing page submissions from event attendees & relevant tech-savvy audiences. Amongst the benefits a brand will always have from campaigns like this one, here are the impressive numbers that helped them reach their goals: 1,016% Increase in Event Landing Page Traffic; 13,365,165 Total OOH Impressions; 4,060,010 Bonus OOH Impressions.

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March 30, 2019

Case Study: Alaska Airlines

WRAPIFY NEWSROOM
Alaska Airlines was looking to actively promote specific flight routes out of specific cities. During the campaign period, Wrapify was integrated into the media mix at the intersection of Out of Home (OOH) and digital. Enter: Wrapify. Alaska Airlines chose to have their advertising in the San Francisco Bay Area, leveraging Wrapify’s omni-channel ad platform. In addition, they leveraged SWARM. A SWARM is when multiple wrapped vehicles gather at a specific place and time, creating a huge brand moment nobody can forget!

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September 10, 2018

Why a Media Titan is Investing in Wrapify

WRAPIFY NEWSROOM
OOH and media industry veteran, Bill Apfelbaum, has been following Wrapify’s growth, and most recently, invested in the burgeoning gig-economy startup. Mr. Apfelbaum has enjoyed an impressive career in the advertising business, spanning over thirty-five years in the out-of-home and media industries. We thought we would sit down and share a quick Q&A with one of our biggest influencers.

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April 17, 2018

Brands Think Outside the Box With OOH-Triggered Retargeting

AD XCHANGER
Billboards aren’t a one-to-one media, unless we’re talking about “Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri.” But advertisers are starting to inform their online retargeting efforts with offline exposure data. Newer players, like car-wrapping startup Wrapify, are also popping up to help bridge the gap. Wrapify pays people to encase their vehicles in branded vinyl graphics and drive around town – so its tactics are completely old-school – but it launched a tool in February that lets advertisers extend their OOH impressions online.

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April 6, 2018

Uber & Lyft Car Ads Headed for SF

SF CHRONICLE
Some companies look at Uber and Lyft cars and see a vast, untapped resource: a way to reach passengers and pedestrians with marketing messages. Here is a rundown on some companies using Uber and Lyft cars (and sometimes regular people’s cars) for marketing: Wrapify: This San Diego company wraps cars in giant advertising decals, a process that takes a few hours. A Delaware company called Carvertise offers a similar service. Both work with regular drivers, as well as Uber/Lyft drivers.

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December 8, 2017

Wrapify Partners with Mira & Barometric for New Features

PR WEB
Wrapify, the technology-based marketing platform that provides brands with the ability to measure and scale ads on vehicles, today announced a new partnership with respected attribution companies Mira and Barometric to yield better insights from the campaigns displayed by their vehicles. Wrapify is piloting three distinct features powered by Mira and Barometric in public beta nationwide: physical re-targeting, offline-to-online engagement, & retail foot-traffic attribution.

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November 6, 2017

Wrapify Names Stephen Phillips Director of Engineering

WRAPIFY NEWSROOM
Wrapify, the technology-based car wrap company, has hired Stephen Phillips as director of engineering. Phillips, was co-founder of Votion, a SaaS company that offers a suite of products that build dialogs between brands and consumers. “I know Steve from Jason Calacanis’s LAUNCH Incubator, which Votion was part of a few sessions after Wrapify,” Wrapify CEO and founder James Heller explains. “I’ve always been impressed by his business savvy and smarts, and when this opportunity opened up, he was my first choice.” Prior to launching Votion, Phillips’s engineering and ecommerce background led to building online stores for global retailers including Google, Adidas, Godiva Chocolates and Hot Topic.

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January 31, 2017

CBS Radio & Wrapify Drive OOH Ads in D.C.

MEDIA POST
CBS Radio in Washington, D.C. is driving its out-of-home advertising. Literally. 95.5 FM and 94.7 FM have teamed with Wrapify, a mobile outdoor marketing company, to wrap specific cars with advertising from Washington metro advertisers. Wrapify then divvies up the revenue with car owners, who on average, make an estimated $450 per month. Drivers/campaigns usually run three, six or 12 months. There is no client list yet for the nation's capital, but brands using Wrapify in cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Atlanta, and Miami include Anheuser Busch (for Bud Light), eBay, Lyft, Petco, Harrah's, among others.

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August 3, 2016

Ghostbed Expands Use of Wrapify Advertising

BEDTIMES MAGAZINE
Online mattress brand Ghostbed has extended its use of wrapped vehicle advertising Wrapify to promote its brand. The Wrapify app allows drivers in certain cities to sign up and earn money by having their vehicles wrapped in a specific marketer’s advertising. Drivers connect with an app that tracks how much they drive and where they go and compensates them accordingly.

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