SVV's portfolio company SUTRO - What engineering and manufacturing support we provided.

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“Our mission at Shenzhen Valley Ventures is to help take the ‘hard’ out of ‘hardware’. We want to make creating hardware products less difficult. SVV strives to accelerate the testing and introduction of new products and provide the best engineering, product design and manufacturing services
possible. This is all in the name of innovation.”

Ravi Kurani CEO

Working with SVV has been a god-send. It was so tough prior to working with SVV to have to manage and wrangle so many different vendors, engineers, and suppliers. SVV has helped us consolidate everything into one area.” 

The SUTRO device

The Sutro Smart Water System is the only complete solution to provide you with the peace of mind that your pool or spa is ready to go when you are. At Sutro, we want you to know what’s going on with your water and get the supplies you need, when you need them, from trusted Sutro partners. Safe water is critical to enjoying your pool or spa.

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SVV’s manufacturing services has served numerous international startup, corporations, and universities. Our unique production house is a dedicated low-volume complex B2B manufacturing platform, servicing medical, agriculture, and AI IoT devices.

How SVV helped
Sutro

Deciding Factors For
Choosing SVV

SVV helped Sutro Connect realize their vision for their product to embody the harmony of mankind and water.

To promote ease of use, SVV designed several user-friendly features of the product, such as the cartridge and battery replacement mechanisms and the lid removal feature. These elements, in addition to others in the product’s structure and packaging, were all precisely designed with scale, cost and manufacturing efficiency in mind.

Results

Owing to SVV’s support, Sutro Connect has accelerated its product development cycle and is confident about the reliability of its design and ability to scale.

Time to market is a major factor in a new product’s chances of success. And since Sutro Connect avoided costly time-wasting pitfalls by working with SVV, it is more likely to be make it on the market.

Additionally, whenever the Sutro Connect team discusses the product with potential investors and customers, they’ll have reinforced confidence because they know the Smart Monitor is the brainchild of two innovative organizations.

Deciding Factors For
Choosing SVV

Impressive engineering
capabilities

Sutro Connect wanted a company that had engineers across several disciplines with robust experience

Engineering support from
prototype to production

To avoid “passing the baton” from one supplier to the next, Sutro Connect wanted one dependable partner that would help with each part of prototyping and DFM

Personal attention and flexibility

Sutro Connect wanted a collaborator eager to work with the existing team in San Francisco and ready to make frequent adjustments to designs

The SVV team has a great depth of production engineering knowledge. They have been a fantastic asset for us in finding time-tested solutions to our product design and manufacturing challenges.”

Alex Valeyev

Lead Mechanical Engineer

Alex Valeyev

Lead Mechanical Engineer

The SVV team has a great depth of production engineering knowledge. They have been a fantastic asset for us in finding time-tested solutions to our product design and manufacturing challenges.”

Interview with Sutro's - Ravi Kurani | SVV services | Assisting innovative startups in Shenzhen

SUTRO is a leading tech company in California, leading the world in water monitoring solutions. They have created an innovative SMART monitoring device that is placed in people’s pools and hot tubs ensuring pools have constant maintenance and kept safe year out.

Sutro’s co-founder and CEO, Ravi Kurani, shares his experience working with Shenzhen Valley Venture’s (SVV) engineering & manufacturing team.