Greg Duffy started Dropcam with a simple goal: find out which neighbor was letting their dog poop on his dad's lawn week after week. His father had looked into security cameras, but couldn't find one that made it easy to record, stream and monitor large amounts of video. So Duffy and his friend Aamir Virani, both software engineers, decided to build a solution. "It was pretty scrappy at first," admits Duffy. "We were buying cameras off the shelf, reverse engineering them and flashing them with our own firmware." The duo built and shipped all the early units by hand.
Fast-forward four years to today and the company is announcing a $30 million round of venture funding. It now makes its own hardware, the Dropcam HD, and says the new money...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/31/4572462/dropcam-raises-30-million-surveillance-empire
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