Brilliant
Company

Last deal

$40M

Amount

Series B

Stage

30.08.2021

Date

3

all rounds

$64M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
We make the Brilliant Control, a smart home control system that replaces an existing light switch.

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Also Known As

Brilliant

founded date

01.06.2015

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series B

IPO status

Private

Description

Brilliant Home Technology creates the Brilliant Control, a smart home control system that replaces traditional light switches.
Contacts
Legal Names

Legal name

Brilliant Home Technology, Inc.
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People

Founders
3

Jeremy Hiatt

Jeremy Hiatt is the Cofounder and Chief Engineer at Brilliant. Jeremy Hiatt attended Stanford University.

current job

Brilliant
Brilliant

organization founded

1

Jeremy Hiatt

Steven Stanek
Steven Stanek

Steven Stanek

current job

Brilliant
Brilliant

organization founded

1

Steven Stanek

Aaron Emigh
Aaron Emigh

Aaron Emigh

Aaron Emigh is the co-founder and CEO of Brilliant. He was previously co-founder and CTO of shopkick, EVP and GM of Technology at Six Apart, CTO of Rojo Networks, Managing Director of Radix Labs, and CEO of CommerceFlow. Aaron is a seasoned entrepreneur with four acquisitions and one IPO. He has over 90 issued US patents, has been named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and has presented original research at numerous conferences and research colloquia, including RSA, APWG, DIMACS, TIPPI, SFECTF, ISSA, MAAWG, ITTC, and the AAAS. Aaron has served as a member of the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force and the US-DHS Infosec Technology Transition Council, a Research Fellow of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, and a technical advisor to the Financial Services Technology Consortium.

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Aaron Emigh

Employee Profiles
10
João Oliveira Simões

João Oliveira Simões

Staff Product Designer

Gaurav Hardikar

Gaurav Hardikar

Vice President of Product

Michael Williams

Michael Williams

VP of Marketing

Scott Dunlap

Scott Dunlap

Chief Product Officer

Steven Stanek

Steven Stanek

Co-Founder and CTO

Ashley Chou

Engineer, brilliant home technology

Jeremy Hiatt

Cofounder / Chief Engineer

Aaron Emigh

Aaron Emigh

Co-founder & CEO

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