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RECENT NOTABLE ACTIVITY – SMART CITIES
- Sigfox, a Labege-based LPWA network provider raised $160M in a Series E round from Salesforce Ventures, Total, Tamer Group and others. Link
- Greenbird, an Oslo-based data fusion platform for smart cities and other IoT data, raised $5M in a Series A round from ETF Partners and Statkraft Ventures. Link
- WaterView, a Turin-based rain nowcasting and forecasting company, raised approx $520k from Club degli Investitori. Link
- Tvilight, a Groningen-based smart street lighting solution provider, raised an undisclosed sum in a Series A round from Poonoc and Osram. Link
- Energyworx, an Amsterdam-based energy analytics company, raised an undisclosed amount in Series A funding from SET Ventures. Link
- Telit Communications, a Tel Aviv-based connectivity solutions provider raised a $110M debt round of financing from Bank Hapoalim and HSBC. Link
SOME INTERESTING STARTUPS FOUND
Osiris (2016, Delhi) – Develops smart city solutions, chiefly for street lighting.
GTronica (2016, Lisbon) – Develops an analytics and visualization platform for IoT sensors.
LEADER BOARD – SMART CITIES
Urban Management & Monitoring – Utilities
Gogoro (2011, Taipei, $180M) – Electric scooters and battery swapping infrastructure. Backed by Panasonic and National Development Fund of Taiwan.
ChargePoint (2007, Campbell, $156M) – Builds Electric Vehicle charging infrastructure. Backed by Rho Ventures, Voyager Capital, Siemens Venture Capital, KPCB, BMW, Constellation Technology Ventures and others.
Enevo (2010, Espoo, $27M) – Smart sensor networks to monitor waste containers and provide savings in waste collection. Backed by Lifeline Ventures, Industry Investment, Earlybird VC, Draper, Foxconn and others.
Urban Management & Monitoring – Infrastructure
Sensity Systems (2010, Sunnyvale, $74M) – High speed, sensor based open networking platform known as Light Sensory Network. Backed by Mohr Davidow Ventures, Cisco Investments, GE Energy, Acuity Brands and Simon Venture Group.
Dazzletek (2012, Breda, $24M) – Develops a lighting control system for building and street lighting. Backed by an undisclosed PE firm.
Telensa (2007, Great Chesterford, $18M) – Develops smart street lighting solutions for cities. Backed by ETF Partners.
Urban Management & Monitoring – Urban Mobility
INRIX (2004, Kirkland, $133M) – Real time, historical and predictive traffic data. Backed by Porsche, August Capital, Venrock, Bain Capital, KPCB, Intel Capital and others.
Streetline (2005, SF, $50M) – Helps drivers find parking spaces and authorities to analyze parking occupancy. Backed by Sutter Hill Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, RockPort Capital Partners, True Ventures, Qualcomm and Citigroup.
Miovision (2005, Kitchener, $24M) – Video and web based technologies for monitoring and analyzing traffic data. Backed by Investco Capital, MacKinnon, Bennett & Co., Plazacorp Ventures and others.
Urban Management & Monitoring – Others
Leosphere (2004, Orsay, $30M) – Manufactures ground-based and nacelle-mounted LIDAR systems for pollution and weather monitoring. Backed by Scientipole Initiative, Hedera Finances, Electranova Capital and others.
Understory (2012, Boston, $9.5M) – Collects weather data using ground-based sensors. Backed by CSA Partners, Monsanto, True Ventures and others.
Network Providers
Sigfox (2009, Labege, $312M) – LPWA network provider for low-cost data transmission for IoT. Backed by Salesforce, Telefonica, Intel Capital, NTT Docomo and others
Silver Spring Networks (2002, Redwood City, IPO) – Connectivity Platform and network provider for communications between utility and customer, smart meters and communication nodes. Backed by Hitachi, EMC, GSV Capital, KPCB, Northgate Capital, GV and others.
Ingenu (2008, San Diego, $96M, Acq.) – LPWA network and communications systems. Backed by GE, NRG Energy, ConocoPhillips.
Data Storage, Analysis and Planning – Data Platforms
Connecthings (2007, Paris, $11M) – Provides NFC tags, QR codes and iBeacon solutions. Backed by Xerys, Groupe Siparex and Calao Finance.
Cityzenith (2009, Chicago, $6M) – Aggregates data from sources such as public (open data), IoT and M2M (real-time operational) and citizens (social media) and makes it available through a standard and open platform. Backed by Mumbai Angels and Sequoia Capital.
Data Storage, Analysis and Planning – Analytics Software
Space-Time Insight (2008, San Mateo, $55M) – Provides real-time analytics for data from varied sources. Backed by Enertech Capital, EON, Opus Capital Ventures and others.
CoSMo (2010, Lyon, $5M) – Provides complex systems modeling and analysis software solutions. Backed by Sofimac Partners and Aster Capital.
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