Over 5,800 Kickstarter backers support the first remote control for everything, proving market demand for smart home simplification and unification

Sevenhugs announces reaching $1 million in Smart Remote pre-orders on Kickstarter. Awarded the most innovative product in the CES 2017 Smart Home category, Smart Remote allows users to control any device simply by pointing at it.

"We're excited and honored by the support of the Kickstarter community to help us reach our initial goal of $50K in record time and then quickly accelerate to over $1 million," says Simon Tchedikian, Sevenhugs' co-founder and CEO. "For years, we've anticipated the digital home becoming a reality, but we also recognized that there would be an issue with the integration of multiple devices due to proprietary software," continues Tchedikian. "We knew we could build a solution to the fragmentation problem, but it also needed to be simple and user-friendly, coupled with easily connecting to any device. After two years of development, we achieved our vision with Smart Remote and are so excited to see such an impressive response from the market."

Sevenhugs' patent-pending point and control technology enables Smart Remote's screen to adapt automatically to any device. When a user points at a device, Smart Remote instantly displays custom controls to operate that particular device. Smart Remote unifies the control of your connected home experience.

Sevenhugs' Kickstarter backers will receive Smart Remote starting in June '17 before Smart Remote becomes available at select retailers in Fall '17 for $299.99.

About Sevenhugs

Sevenhugs creates connected home products and services designed to simplify the smart home experience. Our goal is to reinvent the way people interact with technology at home by creating devices that are simple and intuitive to use. Based in San Francisco and Paris, Sevenhugs was founded in 2014 by Simon Tchedikian, Steìphane Jaubertou, Lionel Marty, and Olivier Mandine. Sevenhugs raised more than $14M in a recent Series A.

For more information about Sevenhugs and Smart Remote, please visit remote.sevenhugs.com or follow the company on Facebook and Twitter.

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