About Us
Who is FireFly LED Lighting?
The company is based on three core principles: Integrity, Entrepreneurship and Respect.
- Quality: Provide the product at the highest quality possible.
- Entrepreneurship: Big enough to solve your problem, small enough to care…
- Respect: Customer First Focused
Add to that mantra: Right Source Manufacturing, the ability to custom tailor product to the clients needs, and a management team that truly believes each employee should be empowered to create and succeed in their area of expertise.
Firefly LED Lighting has a vision to create a powerful light source that the market can rapidly adopt. It is through design and innovation that we create lighting to meet our customer’s needs.
……That is Firefly LED.
Our Team
Steve Barcik, BSME, MBAc 2011 (CEO) has a background in high tech engineering, consumer electronics, industrial design, conformity, and business management. He was previously a principal in another startup venture, which he sold in 2000 for five times the initial investment. His background in unified life-cycle engineering and design safety and conformity is a huge advantage for this market.
Brad Bailey, BSPhy, MSMSci (Engineering) is a high tech engineer who has registered over a dozen patents in materials and optics technology for existing corporations and startups.
Hoobie Daniels BSIE, MBA (Manufacturing) has 17 years in aerospace, 8 years in consumer products, and 6 years of indoor and outdoor lighting fixture experience as Director of Manufacturing, operations, customer service, and supply chain management.
Tammy Porter, CMP - Business Process Manager
Our History
- 06/2009 | Founded
- 07/2009 | Completed first proof of concept prototypes
- 08/2009 | Filed first Provisional Patents
- 10/2009 | Admitted to Austin Technology Incubator (1 of 6 admitted out of over 400 applicants)
- 10/2009 | Completed Preproduction Prototypes
- 10/2009 | Approved Unanimously by Central Texas RCIC for Emerging Technology Funding
- 03/2010 | Awarded the Grand Prize at the RISE Conference Fast Pitch Contest
- 05/2010 | Closed “A Round” with CTAN and CVAN CTAN’s first Clean Energy Investment Seed Round $325K on a $2MM Valuation
- 08/2010 | Filed 5 patent applications.
- 11/2010 | Closed Emerging Technology Funding Round ($3MM)
- 11/2010 | Provided first samples and demos
