Chandler Startup Adds California Tech Co-Founder to Board

December 11, 2019

Shawn Dougherty grew Mophie from a startup out of her Michigan home to a five-facility global entity with $250 million in revenue and more than 300 employees. Mophie was sold in 2016 to ZAGG Inc. in a deal worth more than $100 million. “For most of my professional life I’ve worked to make charging mobile devices as accessible and easy as possible,” Dougherty said in a statement. “Aira’s FreePower technology is, simply put, the future…

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About FreePower

In 2017, FreePower (FKA Aira) took the first steps toward reinventing a technology that had always fallen short of expectations: wireless charging. Today, we have more than 250 patent assets for our advanced system, all of which were engineered in-house. After years of perfecting the technology, we launched the second-generation FreePower with Tesla in 2023, followed by our latest innovation: FreePower for Countertop. The technology won a multitude of awards in 2024 including 3 CES Innovation Awards, IIDA Product Design Award, KBB’s Kitchen Product of the Year, the coveted KBIS Best-in-Show Award, and Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech. We are now partnering with leading architects, designers, builders, and fabricators to bring power to the spaces that connect us, with FreePower now available in more than 450 showrooms and fabrication shops across the United States. Learn more at https://www.freepower.io.