
Essential Products
Founded Year
2015Stage
Asset Sale | AssetsPurchasedTotal Raised
$330MAbout Essential Products
Essential Products is a company focused on creating consumer technology products for the 21st century. Founded by Andy Rubin, co-founder of Android, Essential Products is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Essential Products Headquarter Location
380 Portage Avenue
Palo Alto, California, 94306,
United States
650-300-0000
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CB Insights Intelligence Analysts have mentioned Essential Products in 2 CB Insights research briefs, most recently on Apr 19, 2022.

Apr 13, 2022
406 startup failure post-mortemsEssential Products Patents
Essential Products has filed 143 patents.
The 3 most popular patent topics include:
- Home automation
- Internet of things
- GPS navigation devices
Application Date | Grant Date | Title | Related Topics | Status |
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5/17/2021 | 12/21/2021 | Organic electronics, Molecular electronics, Optical diodes, Display devices, Conductive polymers | Grant |
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Grant Date | 12/21/2021 |
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Related Topics | Organic electronics, Molecular electronics, Optical diodes, Display devices, Conductive polymers |
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Latest Essential Products News
Sep 3, 2020
Advertisement Former Essential employees have started their own company, called OSOM Products. The company terms itself as "building the next suite of craziness." However, details on its products or services are sketchy at best. Essential's erstwhile Head of R&D, Jason Keats, founded OSOM Products in February this year. He has been promoting and trying to build up a following for OSOM Products these past few months on LinkedIn and Twitter. In a tweet, Jason Keats had confirmed that his former Essential colleagues have joined OSOM Products. These include Wolfgang Muller, JB Theou, Nick Franco, Gary Anderson, Kevin Chen, and Wilson Chan. Advertisement Wolfgang Muller is the new CMO, Kevin Chen is responsible for supply chain management, while Wilson Chan (Essential's erstwhile Head of Operations) is most likely in a similar role at OSOM Products. Gary A and JB Theou are software engineers, and Nick Franco's expertise is on the camera side. Based on this mix of expertise, one can argue that OSOM Products would launch a smartphone in the future. However, do take this observation as mere conjecture and with a little bit of salt. As of today, the OSOM Products website does not provide any indication of its product line. The website includes a simple form, using which you can sign up for updates from the company. Advertisement Essential's demise resulted in OSOM Products being formed Android co-founder, Andy Rubin had launched Essential Products in November 2015, after leaving his role at Google. Subsequently, the company launched the Essential Phone in 2017, which went on to develop a cult following. Essential products developed, manufactured, and sold accessories for the Essential Phone, including a 360 Camera. Interestingly, the company had plans to launch a unique phone under its Project GEM, as well as a smart speaker called Essential Home. Unfortunately, Essential Products had to shut down in February 2020, owing in large part to harassment allegations against the company's founder Andy Rubin. However, the company's official blog post lamented that they were shutting down as there was "no clear path to deliver" their new products to customers. Advertisement Essential founder Andy Rubin is not heading OSOM Products Unsurprisingly, OSOM Products has hired a CEO with no link to the now-dead Essential Products. Andrew Zalasin is heading OSOM Products as the company's CEO. In fact, Jason Keats has confirmed that OSOM Products would be hiring 20-30 new employees by the end of this year. It should be interesting to see how many former Essential employees join OSOM in their erstwhile roles. Advertisement OSOM is thrilled to announce that my former colleagues Wolfgang Muller, JB Theou, Nick Franco, Gary Anderson, Kevin Chen and Wilson Chan have all joined the team here to build something OSOM! So excited to have this team together with me on another insane adventure!
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