Venture Capital

IoT Network Sigfox secures $115 additional funding

Sigfox, the low-power wide area network being deployed by Arqiva in the UK secured a new round of funding to drive its international expansion. As discussed in a previous post, Sigfox allows devices to remain in contact with a network for several years using normal AA-style batteries, and represents a much lower cost alternative to cellular networks for applications such as metering. This makes it quite interesting that NTT Docomo, Telefonica and SK Telecom are amongst its investors, clearing seeking to … Read more…

Venture funding for London tech start-ups doubles

A recent report in the Financial Times claimed that venture funding for London-based start-ups reached $1.4bn in 2014, double the amount in the previous year and twenty times that four years ago. This represents 65% of the UK’s $2.2 tech venture funding last year. Venture capital funding of London tech start-ups doubles – FT.com Clearly an impressive growth, though according to Deloitte, the UK still lags behind the US, Germany, Canada and Israel in terms of VC confidence.   The … Read more…

The Periodic Table of IoT

CB Insights, an analyst firm specialised in tracking technology companies, investors and acquisitions has pulled together a rather novel way of representing the IoT ecosystem. It presents companies, VCs, private equity firms and acquirers in a conveniently colour-coded “Periodic Table of IoT”. As in the periodic table from our days in chemistry class, the characteristics of the ‘elements’ vary as we traverse the table, in this case from the technology firms in individual verticals such as wearables, connected home and … Read more…