Breathometer
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Breathometer was a device that claimed to measure someone's blood alcohol content (like a Breathalyzer) using their iOS and Android smartphones. However, the app proved unreliable, and was shut down by the Federal Trade Commission.
Breathometer was a device that claimed to measure someone's blood alcohol content (like a Breathalyzer) using their iOS and Android smartphones. However, the app proved unreliable, and was shut down by the Federal Trade Commission.
Company history
Breathometer was founded in 20121 by Charles Michael Yim, a serial entrepreneur who had earlier founded three startup companies including Chatterfly, a mobile loyalty platform for businesses that was acquired by Plum District in December 2011. Yim noted that there were no commercial breathalyzers for the smartphone market, and the only portable breathalyzers commercially available were both expensive and impractical for users to take with them on a night out. The company was partly funded through preorders collected via an Indiegogo crowd-sourcing campaign, which ran until April 2013. The campaign's original goal was to raise $25,000, but by the time it closed, it had raised over $138,000. In September 2013, Yim appeared on Shark Tank. He originally asked for $250,000 for a 10% stake in Breathometer, but all five "sharks" ended up investing a total of $1 million for a collective 30% stake in the company.
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The Wall Street Journal Tech Crunch
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