Cactus is a smart power strip that communicates with your Wi-Fi and can be controlled through a web application. We are raising $10,000 dollars through www.rockethub.com to build our first prototype. Support our project at http://bit.ly/Cactuspower You could get one of our prototypes for as low as $30 dollars!

1. Cactus
Control Your Energy

2. Users can save a lot of money by managing
their energy consumption from wherever
they are.
• Wasted ‘Stand-by’ power alone accounts for 10%
($128 per year) of household energy use in the
United States
• 57% of electricity consumption could be controlled
by a power strip

3. Cactus
A smart power strip that enable users to
control electricity remotely

4. Cactus
Cactus communicates with your wireless
network and with all other Cactus outlets in
your home.

5. Cactus
Your switches are accessible from wherever
you are

6. Cactus
When your phone leaves the house, Cactus
reminds you to turn things off.

7. Our Crowd Funding Objective
$10,000
To achieve:
• The first 100 working prototypes
• A digital footprint:
– Media Placements
– website
– social media buzz

8. The Rocket Hub ‘Goods’
Dona%on
($) Good
Descrip%on #
of
Available
items
15 Thank
You
card 50
30 Cactus
Prototype 5
40 Cactus
Prototype 10
50 Cactus
Prototype 20
50 Cactus
Prototype
with
Bluetooth 5
75 Cactus
Prototype 30
75 Cactus
Prototype
with
Bluetooth 15
100 Cactus
Prototype
with
Bluetooth 15
200
Your
name
engraved
on
Cactus!
3
2000 An
apartment
for
a
weekend
in
Paris 3

9. Timeline
• Q4, 2014: product development, market
research.
• Q1, 2015: fulfillment, production of the
first 100 units.
Prototypes will be delivered by
March 1st, 2015

10. Team
Paul Rolfe
Software
Betaspring
Fellow
Giuseppe Crosti
Sales and marketing
VFA 2013 fellow
Ethan Carlson
Hardware
VFA 2012 fellow
Jon Hills
Product design
VFA 2013 fellow

11. Thank You!