page_title: Jawbone (company)
section_title: Aliph
hierarchical_section_title: Jawbone (company) / History / Aliph
caption_attribution_description: Aliph Jawbone Bluetooth Headset
context_page_description: Jawbone was an American privately held consumer technology and wearable products company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Since June 19, 2017, it has been undergoing liquidation via an assignment for the benefit of creditors. It developed and sold wearable technology such as wristbands and portable audio devices, wireless speakers, Bluetooth headsets, and related technology. Jawbone marketed its wearable products as part of the Internet of things.
context_section_description: According to later legal documents, the company was originally called AliphCom and formed in March 1998 during the dot-com bubble.
  In 2002, Aliph won a contract with DARPA, the U.S. military's research arm, to research ways for combat soldiers to communicate with each other in difficult conditions. The pair began to develop a mobile phone headset designed to suppress background noise.
  After undisclosed seed funding, about $1.5 million was raised in June 2002.
  In 2006, Aliph released a YouTube demonstration of a wireless version of its Jawbone headset and announced that Yves Béhar would be hired as vice president and creative director.
  The company's earliest venture capital investor was the Mayfield Fund, which invested $0.8 million in December 2006.
  In January 2007, Aliph revealed its wireless Jawbone headset at the Consumer Electronics Show.
  In July 2007, Khosla Ventures made a $5 million investment in the company.
caption: An early headset from 2007
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