Kano’s Pre-Sale Reaches over $500,000 for New Creative Computing System

Kickstarter Campaign for the Camera Kit, Pixel Kit and Speaker Kit
Closes on October 27

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kano,
the London-based creative computing company, has surpassed its $500,000
funding goal on Kickstarter for the manufacturing and production of its
new creative computing system, which includes the Camera
Kit ($129.99), Pixel
Kit ($129.99), Speaker
Kit ($129.99), and a new way to code them called Kano Code.

“Kano’s global community of makers, technologists, teachers and
beginner-level coders from 86 countries continues to drive our mission
to be the first-ever end to end computing platform for all ages,” said
Alex Klein, the co-founder and CEO of Kano. “We are overwhelmed by the
positive response to our new computing system, and look forward to
bringing physical and digital creative computing concepts to even more
people around the world.”

Kano’s Kickstarter campaign received return support from notable backer
Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, and new support from Nile
Rodgers, the Grammy-winning composer and producer.

Kano’s original Computer Kit for all ages became one of the top funded
educational products launched on Kickstarter. The current campaign will
end on October 27 at 11am ET/4pm BST, with The Pixel Kit being the first
product to ship in January 2017.

To support Kano on Kickstarter, please visit: http://kano.me/kickstarter.
To use Kano Code, please visit: http://kano.me/code.
Visit Kano World at http://world.kano.me
and to see art creations made with code, please visit: http://art.kano.me.
Follow @TeamKano
on Twitter and Kano
Computing on Facebook.

About Kano

Kano is a London-based company that empowers people of all ages to make,
learn and play with computing, with its system of kits and open coding
platform. Its first “computer anyone can make” has shipped to 86
countries around the world to people, ages 6 to 81, who have used it to
make PCs, screens, radios, artwork, music, games, Minecraft hacks and
more. More than 19 million lines of code have been shared in its online
community, Kano World, where anyone can try out Kano’s apps for free.
Kano was founded by Alex Klein, Yonatan Raz-Fridman and Saul Klein and
has raised $19 million in funding, from its initial record-breaking
Kickstarter campaign to investors that include Jim Breyer, Marc Benioff,
Martin Sorrell, Index Ventures, James Higa, Troy Carter and Shana
Fisher, among others. To learn more about Kano, please visit: http://kano.me.

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