Amazon’s Alexa Fund led a $5.6 million funding round for Alexa-enabled home intercom system Nucleus, the startup announced today.
Enabled by Wi-Fi, Nucleus lets you use voice or video in the home to chat with other Nucleus devices or with Nucleus iOS and Android apps around the world.
Nucleus intercoms first became available for purchase in August.
“[Families] were buying three, four, five per house, so Amazon thought this was an exciting opportunity to get Alexa into homes that otherwise might never buy Echo, and inside those homes they’re getting it throughout the homes,” Nucleus cofounder Jonathan Frankel told VentureBeat.
Also announced today, Nucleus acquired competitor Insensi, maker of the Ily smart phone, for an undisclosed amount. A successful Ily crowdfunding campaign ended in June after generating $134,000 in Ily presales and other goods.
