OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei gets $7 million for his next project, here's a list of investors

Ro, 09 December 2020

OnePlus' co-founder left the company two months ago saying he wants to pursue a new hardware venture and it seems that things are moving fast. Carl Pei was able to secure a $7 million starting investment and some of the funding comes from high-profile players.

Tony Fadell – Principal at Future Shape and inventor of the iPod
Casey Neistat – YouTuber
Kevin Lin – Co-founder of Twitch
Steve Huffman – Chief executive of Reddit
Liam Casey – Founder and chief executive of PCH
Paddy Cosgrave – Founder of Web Summit
Josh Buckley – Chief executive of Product Hunt

OnePlus co-fonder raising $7 million for its next project, here's a list of investors

The firm is going to set up an office in London and is currently hiring personnel with 10 already on board. Unfortunately, aside from that, there's no information on what kind of project this is going to be. Some speculate that it's all about music hardware but with no official information whatsoever it's hard to verify those claims.

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Reader comments

Anonymous
22 Dec 2020
IV8

Yeah.. Huawei Mate 40 Pro beats iPhone camera this year.. but do they on top? Emm..

AnonD-961247
14 Dec 2020
sxn

Copying Apple blindly and still getting funding. That's incredible. :D

Ishy
12 Dec 2020
mE0

It'll be difficult to do that since they will rely on the processing capabilities of the mobile cpu that they use in their newer devices. Apple is able to do since they have worked with pretty much the same design and software over a decade. One...