Trung Pham
Co-Founder & CEO
Technology, Entrepreneur
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Trung Pham is an entrepreneur currently living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is currently the CEO and Founder of RYSE, A local Toronto tech startup that is disrupting the smart home industry with its innovative approach to window shade automation.
The company is solving a unique energy consumption problem that often goes overlooked. Buildings and homes account for over three-quarters of all electricity and energy use — 40% of which is associated with greenhouse gas emissions, including lighting, heating, and cooling.
Founder & CEO of RYSE, an IoT PropTech startup, creating devices to motorize window blinds & shades, controllable via smartphone, schedules, voice, or automated to reduce indoor cooling and lighting electricity, and GHG emissions. Our technology has been featured by TechCrunch, CNET, Fox News, CBS, and has been awarded the Mark of Excellence by the Consumer Technology Associated in 2017 at CES. We have generated over $5 million in revenue, shipping 40,000 devices to date, and secured over $7 million in funding. Learn more at https://invest.helloryse.com.
We wanted an affordable product that we could easily install ourselves to motorize our own shades at home.
Most of us already have window shades installed, whether it’s at home, the office, or any other space. It would be such a waste of money if we had to replace them, just to experience the magic of motorized shades.
Founder, Trung Pham, discovered this when he moved into his new apartment. He had installed a set of beautiful floor-to-ceiling 9’ by 9’ roller shades – ones that were controlled via beaded chains.
When summer came around, the heat from the sunlight made his apartment feel like a sauna! So he went back to the same retailer he purchased his roller shades from and asked to buy a motor that he could DIY install on his existing shades at home.
And that’s when he learned that once you buy manually controlled window shades, it was impossible to motorize them – you’d actually have to replace them with brand new motorized shades, which was quoted at over $1,500 per window!
Read more about Trung Pham in his Feature interview.
