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About us

Make Technology Accessible for All.

Become the most reliable hardware platform and empower everyone to achieve their digital transformation goals.

Seeed, the AIoT Hardware Service Platform

Seeed has been serving the global developer community since 2008, by providing open technology and agile manufacturing services, with the mission to make hardware more accessible and lower the threshold for hardware innovation.

With Shenzhen’s vast resources, and trusted technology and distribution partners around the world, Seeed strives to be the most integrated platform for creating hardware solutions for IoT, edge AI applications.

Vision

Become the most reliable hardware platform and empower everyone to achieve their digital transformation goals.

Mission

To be the most integrated platform for creating hardware solutions for IoT, AI, and Edge Computing application scenarios.

Values

Openness, Agility, Responsibility, Simbiosis

Seeedaverse

We strive to make hardware innovation more accessible across borders and communities

Seeed in the News

“Seeed Studio, a startup based in Shenzhen, specialises in open-source hardware. But Seeed goes one step further, supporting a whole ecosystem of open-source production. People pitch ideas on its website, and if they garner enough community support, Seeed will manufacture them.”

—— The Economist

Cool Vendors in Asia/Pacific Cool Vendors in IoT ‘Thingification’—— Few IT organizations are equipped to develop the hardware and software for low-level sense and control devices. Gartner provides guidelines for IT leaders looking to seed and accelerate IoT plans. Maker movement suppliers enable organizations to implement IoT concepts in demonstrable form.

—— Gartner

“Wer ein neues Gerät oder ein digitales Gadget, ein besonderes Design im Sinn hat, dem stellt „Seeed“ die Ausrüstung be- reit, um einen Prototypen zu bauen. Wenn er weiter vorankommt, vermittelt ihn das Start-up an einen Betrieb, der eine Klein- serie herstellen kann, wenn die erfolgreich ist, an eine Fabrik, die das Gerät in Massen produziert. ”

—— DER SPIEGEL

“Seeed（深圳矽递科技有限公司）は、プリント基板や電子パーツを顧客の依頼に応じて小規模から生産している。この企業のユニークなところは、自社製品のデータを外部に公開する、いわゆるオープンソース化を進めていることだ。オリジナルの技術を特許などで保護せず、自由にコピー・改良することを認めることでイノベーションを進めていこう、という先進的な考えを反映している。 ”

—— Nippon

“这家2008年在深圳创立的企业迅速发展。目前矽递科技已经是全球前三大开源硬件制造商之一（其他两家为美国企业），服务的客户95%来自海外。 ”

—— Nanfang Daily

“柴火創客空間則是深圳第1大創客空間。Seeed Studio推動的是讓科技可以隨手可得，創意良好生長。幾個月就能產品迭代，甚至12天就可以做出一個樣品，過程比以前縮短很多，這就是開源的力量，因為共用了設計跟供應鏈。 ”

—— BUSINESS NEXT

Seeed Milestone

2008 June 18

Founded Seeed Studio in Shenzhen,China

With the belief that "Electronics Can Be Art"

2008 September 15

Released "Seeeduino"

Microcontroller compatible with Arduino

2009 August 13

Launched "Propagate"

Online prototyping & Customization services

2009 September 10

Released "DSO"

First collaboration product with Maker Pro

2010 July 20

Collaborated with "RF Explore"

Offering manufacturing and distribution services

2010 October 16

Released "Grove System"

Open modular system designed for easy connection of any input/output modules to a microprocessor

2010 Dec 24

Launched "Open Parts Libraries"

Collection of commonly used, cost-effective, and DFM-friendly components

2011 May 4

Launched "Fusion Prototyping"

One-stop prototyping service for PCB manufacture, PCB assembly, other electronic and mechanical customized services

2011 November 30

Founded Chaihuo Maker Space

The first Maker Space in Shenzhen, China

2012 April 8

Launched "Maker Faire Shenzhen"

The first Maker Faire in China

2012 May 29

Released the first "Grove Starter Kit"

Educational kit with Grove modules for beginners

2013 March 20

Featured by "Forbes China" as a cover story

Founder and CEO of Seeed - Mr. Eric Pan - as the cover story

2013 April 25

Collaborated with "Bitcraze" to Launch "Crazyflie"

Small and versatile quadcopter for research and education

2013 September 6

Sponsored "Open Hardware Summit 2013"

As a Marquee sponsor to support the growing open source community

2014 September 8

Released LinkIt ONE with MEDIATEK

An open source, high-performance board for prototyping Wearables and IoT devices

2014 October 31

Released Intel® Edison Kit for Arduino in collaboration with Intel

A kit allows makers to apply Intel® Edison to interface with Arduino shields

2014 November 11

Launched Fusion Gallery

A platform where Fusion customers can share and open source their PCB designs

2015 Janury 4

Prime Minister Li Keqiang Visited Chaihuo Maker Space

Inspiring official national scaling up of Maker Movement in China

2015 May 19

Founded Seeed Studio's branch office in the USA

Offering local support for the growing market in America

2015 August 14

Released "BeagleBone Green" in collaboration with TI and BeagleBoard.org

Low cost, open-source, community-supported development platform based on BeagleBone® Black

2015 September 23

Released "RePhone"

First open source modular phone kit in the world

2015 November 24

Founded "TinkerGen"

Seeed Studio's education brand

2015 December 24

Collaborated with "Piper"

Offering manufacturing and distribution services

2016 May 24

Released "Wio Link"

Wi-fi solution simplifying IoT development to Web of Things

2016 June 7

Featured in WIRED's Documentary

"Shenzhen: the Silicon Valley of Hardware"

2016 August 24

Released "ReSpeaker"

The first open voice interface for IoT applications

2016 December 24

Announced Global Cooperation with "Microsoft"

Product development, software collaboration, and innovation ecosystem

2017 August 3

Founded Seeed Studio's branch office in Nagoya, Japan

Seeed KK: https://www.seeed.co.jp/

2017 December 24

Certified ISO 9001:2015

Highest standards on Quality Management Systems

2017 December 25

Upgraded Chaihuo Maker Space

As the "Platform for Industrial Transformation"

2018 May 15

Launched an online contest on "Seeed for Earth"

Facilitating global communities to apply open tech solutions for SDGs

2018 October 22

Founded Chaihuo Maker Space‘s branch office in Hebei Province, China

Focusing on applying emerging technologies to solve local ecological issues

2018 November 23

Announced collaboration with "ADI"

Offering customization and manufacturing services

2018 December 24

Released "SenseCAP Series"

Industrial IoT product series consisting of hardware, software and API for all types of wireless environmental sensing applications: smart agriculture, smart animal husbandry, smart city, etc.

2018 December 25