Canary, the DIY home-security system, goes from crowd-funding sensation to mainstream retail product

On July 22 2013, the folks at Canary launched a crowd-funding campaign to raise $100,000 to develop a home-security system that just about any household could afford. At the completion of their 34-day campaign, more than 7,000 backers had flooded the company with nearly $2 million in cash. Canary began shipping finished product