- notes
- {"status": "Shut down as independent company; assets acquired by Fitbit (2016); brand later revived separately by founder via Core Devices (2025).", "exit_type": "Asset sale (not full company acquisition)", "acquirer": "Fitbit, Inc.", "exit_date": "2016-12-06", "exit_amount_usd": 23000000, "exit_amount_confirmed_date": "2017-02-22", "assets_included": ["Software", "Intellectual property", "Portion of engineering staff"], "assets_excluded": ["Hardware inventory", "Server equipment", "Debt liabilities"], "insolvency": {"filed": true, "date": "2016-12-06", "jurisdiction": "California (Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors)"}, "post_exit": ["Pebble online services supported through June 2018 (extended from end-2017)", "Unofficial Rebble community maintained services after shutdown", "Google (Fitbit parent) open-sourced PebbleOS codebase (2025)", "Eric Migicovsky founded Core Devices and revived Pebble-branded watches (2025+)"], "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/07/pebble-confirms-its-shutting-down-devs-and-software-going-to-fitbit/", "https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/22/14703108/fitbit-bought-pebble-for-23-millionw", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_(watch)", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pebble"]}
- source urls
- ["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_(watch)", "https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/07/pebble-confirms-its-shutting-down-devs-and-software-going-to-fitbit/", "https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/22/14703108/fitbit-bought-pebble-for-23-millionw", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pebble"]