on the ground from galvanized San Francisco its excused covering amplified woman's bitch night here's Jeff hey welcome back here ready Jeff Rick here with a cute we're at galvanized a downtown San Francisco at the girls in tech amplify event which is is women's pitch night so I think they have ten entrepreneurs here pitching their company pitching their ideas somebody's gonna walk away with 10,000 bucks some computers and other fun stuff so we're happy to be here share the stories with you because this is where innovation happens and our next guest is Ellen health can hard do I get that right from Stila welcome thank you first I've had your pitch go pretty good yes okay so your project is called still emotion so what is still emotion still emotion is that pocket-sized secure system it's had a little sample here okay so this is what it looked like so it's a smaller device that you put on anything that you wants to be still like a bag or computer or a stroller or on a window and and if something moves that shouldn't you get an instant notification to your phone or to your SmartWatch okay so it's got accelerometers and those types of things in there that it's really all about motions yeah little app onto your phone or whatever exactly okay so so there's a lot of action right now with tile and those types of things how is it different kind of what's the different value propositions well it's as I said it's kind of the opposite instead of like finding your thinks it's not losing them in the first place so it's it's a preventative device rather than it's proactive instead of reactive okay but it does have similar functionality as well so if you forget your bag at the cafe you will you will get a notification when the distance is Williams contact but yeah if you're sitting here with me and your bag walks away the tiles the trackers won't help versus the Stila would tell you directly someone is touching your your bag right so how did you come up with the idea I was actually learning how to program Arduino boards I I was running an hour working at a hardware accelerator and my background is more sorry ated but I'm I'm a geek at heart so I had like this little Arduino board that I that I learned how to code with so I I just I literally I'm so I'm so geeky I have Arduino boards in my purse but yes I do so this is a little computer kind of so we were sitting in like learning this at the cafe and I dropped it on my bike and when I lifted it up it started blinking and I'll say you know what that would be great if it did something else to plate and that's why I came up with the idea and how long ago is that so give a little just about kind of history the company how many people are you kind of where you on yeah and the development phase still prototype well I also had idea because I've done a hundred startup before but it took like four years and I'm kind of I wasn't willing to give it four years so it's like is it possible to I like the idea but I didn't know if I want to commit so much time and effort and money so I was like can I make it in a hundred days it's it possible to start a Harvard company in a hundred days so I kind of challenged myself to do it did you have a regular job while you're doing this a normal job i I worked this Australia consulting because I had to fund myself so I had no money no money no funding no team no nothing yeah and I was like yeah I'm gonna make this little button so I did this and then I literally make prototypes in clay and paint and like I talk to people I I got a team together and I did patent applications and got apps together and did yeah so I went from this to functioning Harvard product in 100 days and then I was like I actually want to do this so I kind of quit my job and and made sure that I went all in and got a team together and some of the basic investors to help me out and then yeah we got going and it took a hundred days to make the first product and then it had taken almost a year to build the company right right this is just the start like this is the first product and they will have a whole line of things that we're doing so we're you know what are you gonna do with the money kind of is it for scaling is it for more licensing what are you gonna yeah we just closed our campaign okay on Friday last week and we are now in the last batch of prototyping so I'm going down to our hardware engineers in Orange County next week to finalize the production before we kind of go into tooling and then after that we're doing final stages of the app and then we're going to send Jen in China where produce and started tooling and manufacturing process so we're shipping and March next year more chips here awesome so great story and you said you've got team members from all over the world five of seven continents you're leveraging a lot of others technology like accelerometers to pull this thing together in such a short period of time yeah well very exciting well good luck to you and I hope get some of that money tonight thank you all right we'll keep an eye and worship people go to get more information about the company yet my still of calm my still at ICON spelled STI ll a all right my STI ll a with my in the front awesome all right Alan well thank you very much thank you all right I'm Jeff Rick we are at the girls of tech amplify pitch night here at galvanize in San Francisco we'll be right back after this short break