Internet of Things (IoT)
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Average Funding Per IoT Category
The following infographic summarizes the average funding for each IoT category to show which IoT categories are the best funded. Please note that this data is based only on IoT companies that have publicly available funding data. We are currently tracking over 803 companies in 16 categories across 43 countries, with a total of $6.82 Billion in funding. To see the full list of 803 IoT companies, contact us using the form on www.venturescanner.com.
Venture Investing in IoT
The following infographic compares total venture funding in IoT to the number of companies in each category. Which IoT categories do you think have the most traction and potential for growth? At Venture Scanner, we are currently tracking over 782 IoT companies in 16 categories across 43 countries, with a total of $6.49 Billion in funding. To see the full list of 782 IoT companies, contact us using the form on www.venturescanner.com.
How Does IoT Fit Into Your Life?
The following infographic summarizes the areas in which IoT technology fits into your life--including IoT Home, Retail, Enterprise, Fitness, Health Care, Automotive, and Agriculture. We are currently tracking over 860 companies in 16 categories across 43 countries, with a total of $7.28 Billion in funding. To see the full list of 860 IoT companies, contact us using the form on www.venturescanner.com.
Which IOT Categories Are Seeing the Most Innovation?
The following infographic summarizes the number of companies in each IOT category to show which IOT categories are seeing the most innovation. We are currently tracking over 743 companies in 16 categories across 39 countries, with a total of $5.78 Billion in funding. To see the full list of IOT companies, contact us using the form on www.venturescanner.com.
Internet of Things Update - Spotlighting Dropcam and Fitbit
We have updated our Internet of Things sector map for April 2015 and it is attached below. We are currently tracking over 812 companies in 16 categories across 43 countries, with a total of $6.86 Billion in funding. To see the full list of Internet of Things companies, contact us using the form on www.venturescanner.com.
Internet of Things Sector Update
We have updated our Internet of Things sector map and it is attached below. We are currently tracking over 704 companies in 16 categories across 38 countries, with a total of $4.94B in funding. To see the full list of companies, contact us using the form on www.venturescanner.com.
IOT Startup Interview: CEO/co-founder Dror Sharon of Consumer Physics--maker of SCiO
Consumer Physics is an Israel-based IoT startup developing a molecular sensor called the SCiO that allows anyone to find out the chemical composition of physical objects around them (food, plants, medication, etc.). It is one of the most successful crowd funding campaign* that has raised more than $2.7 million on kickstarter.
Top 50 IoT campaigns: How much did they raise over their goal?
Here's another analysis based on my previous post on the top 50 IoT campaigns on kickstarter and indiegogo. I added a new parameter to see how much these companies raised over their original goal. While target amounts are often set intentionally low to make it easier to achieve, it may be interesting to see which projects overwhelmingly exceeded the expectations.
The Top 50 most funded IoT campaigns on kickstarter and indiegogo
Recently I've noticed a growing number of IoT startups raising a lot of money very quickly on kickstarter and indiegogo. Skully Helmets raised more than $1M in a day and still growing, Sense raised more than $2M, and JIBO just surpassed $1.8M, just to name a few (all figures at the time of writing this post).
Corporate + Hackathon = IoT Success?
I wrote a couple of months back about the explosion of IoT accelerators, and how corporates are beginning to play a bigger role in the space. Corporates can provide APIs to real products, and access to real usage data that developers can hack around with to create new apps and services. GE's at the forefront of this with the GE+Quirky initiative where they claim to be providing "thousands of patents" to Quirky developers.