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Nomiku is a San Francisco-based company making a sous vide immersion circulators designed for the home cook. A Kickstarter project--the first-ever for a home sous vide machine-- launched in 2012, Nomiku was intended to provide affordable and easy-to-use access to sous-vide cooking. Designed in-house by a husband, wife, and best friend trio, Nomiku completed a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012, nearly tripling its goal of $200,000 from over 1,800 backers. The team traveled between the States and China to start production of Nomiku and started selling the circulator direct-to-consumer online shortly after their Kickstarter campaign finished. Nomiku is now found in stores all over the world as well as online marketplaces and is currently in production for the first WiFi-enabled sous vide device. ==Company history== Nomiku was founded by Lisa Q. Fetterman, Abe Fetterman, and Wipop Bam Suppipat. Previously, Lisa and Abe started their fist company together, called Lower East Kitchen, while living in New York City. Lower East Kitchen supplied open-source easy-to-assemble DIY sous vide “Ember Kits” to provide home cooks an affordable alternative to expensive industrial machinery for sous vide. Together they taught classes on how to “hack” together their kits and eventually met Wipop Bam Suppipat, a Thai national who was working as a chef in New York and who would eventually become the third Nomiku co-founder. After relocating to the San Francisco, Lisa and Abe decided to pursue their sous vide endeavors further and joined the hardware startup accelerator Haxlr8r. The pair moved to Shenzhen, China to work with Haxlr8r and develop their product. Taking a short break, Lisa and Abe went to Thailand and reconnected with Suppipat. Talking more deeply about their design, Suppipat—who Lisa and Abe found out is also an industrial designer—joined Nomiku back in Shenzhen and lead the design of the Original Nomiku. The three co-founders launched their Kickstarter campaign in the summer of 2012, raising $586,061, nearly triple the amount of their intended goal. The team used the funds to start production on Nomiku and would split themselves up in between their homebase of San Francisco and their factory in China. Nomiku began taking preorders immediately after the Kickstarter ended and shipped the year after to thousands of homes and restaurants. Nomiku has since finished a second Kickstarter campaign to fund the first-ever WiFi-enable immersion circulator and became a Y Combinator-backed company. Nomiku's name is a shortened version of the Japanese phrase “Nomikui” (飲み食い), which means “eating and drinking”. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nomiku」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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