Crowdfunding – Purism https://puri.sm/ High-quality computers that protect your freedom and privacy Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:29:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.28 https://puri.sm/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-purism-logo-rectangle-1-32x32.png Crowdfunding – Purism https://puri.sm/ 32 32 Purism Announcing MiMi Robot Crowdfunding Campaign https://puri.sm/posts/purism-announcing-mimi-robot-crowdfunding-campaign/ Tue, 16 Jul 2024 03:00:50 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=82116 Crowdfund the Ideal Robotics Future We at Purism want to revolutionize robotics and are seeking your support to fund this research and development. We believe robotics, AI, and technology as a whole need a new direction from what Big Tech is building. We consistently deliver on revolutionary technology, and with your support will invest to […]

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]]> Purism Crosses $100,000.00 in fewer than 48 Hours https://puri.sm/posts/purism-crosses-100000-00-in-fewer-than-48-hours/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 02:32:56 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=81402 In fewer than 48 Hours after launching our first public offering on StartEngine, we have crossed the $100,000.00 mark. At Purism, we’re not just building technology; we’re cultivating a movement. Our top-tier computers, phones, and services are designed so you are in control of your digital life. Invest Now REASONS TO INVEST AN ALTERNATIVE TO […]

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]]> Thank You For Joining Us https://puri.sm/posts/thank-you-for-joining-us/ Mon, 12 Sep 2022 16:34:50 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=75897 It has been a long and difficult journey to build a freedom- and privacy-respecting phone like the Librem 5. While the end of this journey is in sight, we aren’t quite there yet, and I wanted to take some time to do something we should do more often: acknowledge and thank all of you who […]

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]]> Fund Your App to Vote for the Future https://puri.sm/posts/fund-your-app-to-vote-for-the-future/ Thu, 08 Oct 2020 15:28:58 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69632 Fund Your App is available for app selection and donation from https://puri.sm/fund-your-app/. A common question asked about the Librem 5 phone is “How many apps are available?” This can be answered simply by “Many thousands, asterisk.” What most people desire is a dozen or so applications they may need and a handful more they want, […]

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]]> Purism Launches Fund Your App Page https://puri.sm/posts/purism-launches-fund-your-app-page/ Thu, 08 Oct 2020 07:45:04 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69343 SAN FRANCISCO, October 8, 2020 — Purism, a Social Purpose Company (SPC) focusing on security and privacy with its hardware and software, has launched a Fund Your App campaign to allow people to vote for the mobile phone apps they desire to see working on the Librem 5 phone. With an ever increasing number of […]

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]]> Librem Mini is Shipping https://puri.sm/posts/librem-mini-is-shipping/ Tue, 23 Jun 2020 16:25:14 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=68500 The Librem Mini is Shipping! We were excited to see so much interest from the community in our Librem Mini pre-order campaign and we hit our initial goals within only three weeks. Since then we’ve been testing hardware and porting coreboot over and now we are ready to start shipping Librem Mini pre-orders to customers. […]

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]]> Purism Closes $2.5m Note Series https://puri.sm/posts/purism-closes-2-5m-note-series/ Wed, 04 Dec 2019 16:56:58 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=66585 Purism closes a $2.5m note series, all from inbound investment inquiries. Purism as a Social Purpose Company (SPC) ensures the rights of humanity by creating products that fully respect people, and that mission has garnered a lot of attention and growth. One of the reasons Purism registered as an SPC was so that we could […]

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]]> The Librem 5 Smartphone in Forbes https://puri.sm/posts/the-librem-5-smartphone-in-forbes/ Tue, 13 Aug 2019 17:40:57 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=65089 Todd Weaver helps Moira Vetter answer the question “Is America Finally Ready For A Surveillance-Free Smartphone?” in a recent article in Forbes. The article begins by pointing out that several companies have tried to release private, secure smartphones–and most have failed. Does that mean privacy and security are impossible to achieve? Well, not really, because: One […]

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]]> Purism’s Security and Privacy Focused Librem 5 Smartphone Makes Major Strides in Manufacturing and Development https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-smartphone-makes-major-strides-in-manufacturing-and-development/ Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:18:14 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=54029 Security focused laptop maker moves forward with manufacture of developer kits and other key milestones in bringing the Librem 5 to market in January 2019 SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 6, 2018 – Purism, the social purpose corporation which designs and produces popular privacy conscious hardware and software, has announced that its groundbreaking Librem 5 smartphone […]

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]]> Over $1.6 million raised for the Librem 5 — What this means for you https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-over-1-6-million-what-this-means-for-you/ Wed, 11 Oct 2017 19:35:00 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=36736 This Monday, 14 days early, we have crossed a historic milestone. By helping us reach our $1.5M goal early, you have secured your future and freed yourself from the chains of privacy-stripping mobile platforms and allowed us to continue upholding your digital rights with a convenient product made “by the people and for the people”; […]

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]]> Purism Meets Its $1.5 Million Goal for Security Focused Librem 5 Smartphone One Week After Surging Past the 50% Mark https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-phone-funding-target-met-one-week-after-50percent-mark/ Mon, 09 Oct 2017 23:59:10 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=35417 Self-hosted crowdfunder out grosses combined funding of Purism’s previous three campaigns SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., October 9, 2017 — Purism, the social purpose corporation which designs and produces popular privacy conscious hardware and software, has reached its $1.5 million crowdfunding goal to create the world’s first encrypted, open smartphone ecosystem that gives users complete device control, […]

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]]> Librem 5 Campaign Surges Past One Million Dollars https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-campaign-surges-past-one-million-dollars/ Wed, 04 Oct 2017 22:23:06 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=31468 Purism Raises $1 Million to Deliver KDE, GNOME Foundation and Matrix Endorsed Security Phone to Crowdfunding Backers Support for Encrypted, Privacy Smartphone Librem 5 Reaches Two-Thirds Mark With 2.5 Weeks To Go SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., October 4, 2017 — As overwhelming support continues to pour in from the people wanting to have an ethical mobile […]

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]]> The Librem 5 Development Roadmap and Progress Towards i.MX 8 https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-roadmap-to-imx8/ Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:45:55 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=20964 The Librem 5 crowdfunding campaign is still cranking along nicely, while it is going on we wanted to provide a progress report on the hardware selection as well as the advancements with our existing development boards. TL;DR: The base hardware with i.MX 6 is demonstrably working. i.MX 8M, Etnaviv, full HD, are the likely hardware […]

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]]> Librem 5 Surges Past 50 Percent of its $1.5 Million Funding Goal To Deliver Encrypted, Privacy Smartphone That Won’t Track Users https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-over-50-percent-funding-goal/ Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:27:40 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=31139 Crowdfunding support for GNOME Foundation and KDE backed security phone from Purism tops $900,000 with 3 weeks to go SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., October 2, 2017 — With overwhelming support from the Free/Libre, Open Source and GNU/Linux communities in addition to recent partnerships with KDE and the GNOME Foundation, Purism, the manufacturer that builds high-quality, top […]

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]]> GNOME Foundation Partners with Purism to Support Its Efforts to Build the Librem 5 Smartphone https://puri.sm/posts/gnome-foundation-partners-with-purism-to-support-its-efforts-to-build-the-librem-5-smartphone/ Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:30:28 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=27244 Orinda, CA/San Francisco, September 19, 2017 – The GNOME Foundation has provided their endorsement and support of Purism’s efforts to build the Librem 5, which if successful will be the world’s first free and open smartphone with end-to-end encryption and enhanced user protections. The Librem 5 is a hardware platform the Foundation is interested in […]

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]]> GNOME & KDE: The Purism Librem 5 phone is building a shared platform, not walled gardens https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-gnome-and-kde-collaboration/ Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:34:52 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=25308 You might have heard about our Librem 5 phone campaign that we recently launched and that has now crossed the $300,000 milestone. If you are reading this particular blog post, it is quite probably because you are a member of the great GNOME/KDE/freedesktop community, and if you were expecting the Librem 5 to be only […]

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]]> Purism and KDE to Work Together on World’s First Truly Free Smartphone https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-kde-partnership-announcement/ Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:00:59 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=25293 Berlin/San Francisco, September 14, 2017 — Purism and KDE are partnering to help KDE adapt Plasma Mobile to Purism’s Librem 5 smartphone. KDE develops Plasma Mobile, a free, open and full-featured graphical environment for mobile devices. Plasma Mobile has been tested on several off-the-shelf devices. However, most smartphones include hardware that requires proprietary software to […]

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]]> Of Laptops and Phones https://puri.sm/posts/of-laptops-and-phones/ Sun, 27 Aug 2017 16:00:15 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=21507 On Thursday, we have revealed our plans to build the world’s first encrypted, free/libre and open platform smartphone that will empower users to protect their digital identity in an increasingly unsafe mobile world. This naturally comes after having announced the general availability and inventory of our Librem 13 and Librem 15 laptops in June this […]

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]]> Purism Unveils Plans to Build Librem 5, the World’s First Encrypted, Open Smartphone Ecosystem Giving Users Complete Device Control https://puri.sm/posts/purism-launches-librem-5-smartphone-campaign/ Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:00:45 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=21448 Security focused laptop maker launches crowdfunding campaign to gauge market demand and feature requests to begin fabrication SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., August 24, 2017 — Purism, the social purpose corporation which designs and produces popular privacy conscious hardware and software, has revealed its plans to build the world’s first encrypted, open platform smartphone that will empower […]

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]]> Purism’s Security Focused Librem Laptops Go Mainstream as General Availability Begins https://puri.sm/posts/2017-general-availability-press-release/ Fri, 23 Jun 2017 16:00:31 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=19879 Device maker evolves from made-to-order business model to shipping from inventory bolstered by user demand for high quality, security conscious devices SAN FRANCISCO, June 23, 2017 – Purism, the social purpose corporation which designs and produces privacy conscious hardware and software, has announced general availability of its Librem 13 and Librem 15, laptops, demonstrating the […]

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]]> New Librem 13 version to be manufactured & shipped through Spring 2017 https://puri.sm/posts/new-librem-13-to-be-manufactured-and-shipped-through-spring-2017/ Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:00:08 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=14766 True to the promise we have made last month, we are thrilled to announce that today, February 15th, 2017, we are placing orders throughout our supply chain for all components needed for the Librem 13 v2 to begin shipping-from-inventory in April-May onwards! This comes after months of efforts to: upgrade parts of our supply chain, […]

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]]> Newsletter 2016-06-07 https://puri.sm/posts/newsletter-2016-06-07/ Tue, 07 Jun 2016 17:26:41 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=4463 1. Thank You! First off we wanted to say “Thank You!” to all of you for helping build Purism to what it is today, we have a lot more we want to do, and with your continued support we can change the world for the better. 2. This Newsletter List We are now combining all […]

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]]> Purism Ships Librem 13, First Privacy-respecting Notebook Computer https://puri.sm/posts/purism-ships-librem-13-first-privacy-respecting-notebook-computer/ Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:10:02 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=18390 The Librem is a high-end 13″ notebook computer designed specifically for security and privacy; includes hardware “kill switch” to physically sever connection to camera and microphone, hardware optimized for GNU/Linux-based operating system. Unveiled today at GetGeeked press and gadget/PC enthusiast event in New York New York, NY (PRWEB) — October 15, 2015 — In the […]

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]]> Purism Librem Privacy-Respecting Computers Raise $797,000 to Date, Now Among Top 3 Crowdfunded PCs in History https://puri.sm/posts/purism-librem-privacy-respecting-computers-raise-797000-to-date-now-among-top-3-crowdfunded-pcs-in-history/ Thu, 24 Sep 2015 16:04:58 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=18388 Librem Privacy-Respecting Linux-Based Laptop Reaches 318% of Funding Goal, Now Among Top 3 Crowdfunded PCs in History According to ZDNet. Purism’s Librem 13 Linux-Based Notebook Meets 107% of Funding Goal on Crowd Supply, and Librem 15 Laptop Raises 210% — Shipment to Backers Expected Starting October 5. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) — September 24, 2015 […]

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]]> Purism Unveils the First Computer Built to Respect and Protect Digital Privacy https://puri.sm/posts/purism-unveils-the-first-computer-built-to-respect-and-protect-digital-privacy/ Thu, 18 Jun 2015 15:56:21 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=18386 World’s first notebook computer with “privacy switches” — ensuring the camera, microphone, wireless, and Bluetooth data connections are completely turned off. Every hardware feature and software application specifically selected to respect and protect your privacy, security and freedom. New York, New York — June 18, 2015 — Answering the public’s need for a high-end computer […]

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