Services ranging from thermostat sensors to wristbands that can track how you sleep or eat, is made up of hundreds of startup companies categorised as the Internet of Things (IoT). The Internet of Things describes technologies that connect to the internet and to each other through sensors, wireless networks, as well as \"machine-to-machine\" methods.<\/p>\n
112 operations for 752 MM$<\/strong><\/p>\n According to CBinsights, in the last year, nearly $ 752 million has been invested in IoT companies, up nearly 28% from the same period last year. Although year-on-year funding growth was down by nearly 46%, it is important to note that the majority of the $ 810M invested in 1Q'12 was due to the mega deal in\u00a0Vivint<\/span>\u00a0(a home automation and security surveillance company), now owned by the Group\u00a0Blackstone<\/a><\/span>. Stripping out the effect of this mega project, financing in this segment also grew by 20.7%. Activity by number of deals soared in Q4'12 to 41 deals from 21 in Q3'12 largely due to an increase in seed stage investments.<\/p>\n Segment increasingly talked about by technology analysts<\/strong><\/p>\n \"Last month, Techcrunch, the specialist technology website, published an article about the\u00a0internet of things<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and the main companies that are operating in this niche. It compares its expectation to that generated by crowdfunding and 3D printing,\" says Diego Gutierrez, startup analyst at\u00a0ABRA INVEST<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n \"There are several sectors of activity where this technology is making an impact. For example, we have:<\/p>\n - Home Automation & Energy Management - examples such as \u00a0iControl Network<\/span>s and\u00a0Nest Labs<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n - Networks, Sensors & Platforms - \u00a0GainSpan<\/a><\/span>and\u00a0ThingMagic<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n - Healthcare - \u00a0MobileHelp<\/a><\/span>and\u00a0AliveCor<\/span>.<\/p>\n - Monitoring & Tracking - \u00a0\u00a0Cantaloupe Systems<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n - Quantified Self - \u00a0MapMyFitness<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0Jawbone<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n In Spain: sensors and M2M<\/strong><\/p>\n \"In Spain, there are also start-ups working in this field. The ones we are talking about today come from research carried out at the University and have become spin-offs thanks to the collaboration of Venture Capital funds. There is Farsens, born in\u00a0TECNUN<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(San Sebasti\u00e1n) and recently financed by\u00a0Ambar Venture capita<\/span>l. It works with wireless sensor solutions without the need for a battery.\u00a0AWDYNAMICS<\/span>born in the\u00a0Polytechnic University of Madrid<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and which was supported by\u00a0Mobius Venture Capital<\/a><\/span>. Provides technological solutions in the Machine to Machine environment.\" updates Diego Gutierrez.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Services ranging from thermostat sensors to wristbands that can track how you sleep or eat, is made up of hundreds of startup companies categorised as the Internet of Things (IoT). The Internet of Things describes technologies that connect to the internet and to each other through sensors, wireless networks, as well as \"machine-to-machine\" methods.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1750],"tags":[188,172],"sectores":[],"tipo-contenido":[2260],"class_list":["post-42035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financiacion-sectorial","tag-incubadora-startups","tag-venture-capital","tipo-contenido-noticias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42035"},{"taxonomy":"sectores","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sectores?post=42035"},{"taxonomy":"tipo-contenido","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-contenido?post=42035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}