Keen Home Seeks Capital for Home Automation Solution, Keen Vent

Developer of home automation solution Keen Home is in the market for investors, they announced earlier this month.  Keen Home sais the money needed is to complete the development of its Keen Vent, a wirelessly networked home air vent system.  Keen has been featured as one of the hottest 28 startups in the country while participating in TechCrunch’s Disrupt NYC annual conference last month.

Any one can contribute to the development of the Keen Vent solution; the company recently has a crowd-funding campaign on the an Indiegogo website. To date, they are less than $2000 needed to reach the $40,000 goal on Indiegogo.  They are now looking to raise up to $750,000 in seed capital to take the innovative Keen Vent concept into product development, with the goal of beta testing prototypes by Q3 2013.

Entrepreneurs Ryan Fant and Nayeem Hussain and co-founders of Keen Home, have designed the wirelessly networked home air vent, called Keen Vent to maximizes the efficiency and comfort of a home’s heating and cooling system by intelligently redirecting central HVAC airflow.

Keen Vents automatically open and close in response to specific details of a user’s home and lifestyle - effectively reducing the square footage of a home that needs to be heated or cooled at a given time. Initial testing has revealed that a system of Keen Vents reduces central HVAC system run times by up to 30 percent.

According to Nayeem Hussain, Keen Vent was well-received at the TechCrunch’s Disrupt NYC conference. Thus, nspiring them to raise the funds need to develop the product.

"We are currently in talks with several investors and hope to complete the raise within the next sixty days. We look forward to the next phase of our growth and to bringing our Keen Vent to market,” said Nayeem Hussain.

you can preorder your Keen Vent System and contribute to Keen Home’s crowd-funding campaign on Indiegogo at http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keenvent.