Originally published at: $4.6M to Connect Sensors to the Internet - Golioth
Today, we’re announcing open access to a library of new reference designs for embedded engineers to accelerate their time to market, the launch of a Select Partner Program for energy and construction developers, and the completion of a $4.6M round of seed funding led by Blackhorn Ventures and Differential Ventures with participation from existing investors, Zetta Venture Partners, MongoDB Ventures and Lorimer Ventures. We’ve raised a total of $7.1 million to date. This funding will help establish our IoT cloud platform more firmly with embedded engineers, and build toward the company’s goal of helping our customers solve the biggest problem in IoT infrastructure – untangling the messy middle between hardware and the cloud. A fresh look at the biggest problem in IoT Almost two years ago when Golioth announced our pre-seed funding, We asked ourselves, “How do you bring 30.9B devices online?” This question still drives us today. Eventually, almost every device people use will be connected to the internet, no matter where we are or what we’re doing. Our vision is to enable builders to help get us there faster by connecting “sand” to the internet using our platform. Today, Golioth empowers engineers to build secure, reliable, and flexible IoT infrastructure so they can connect devices and move from prototype to production in minutes, instead of months. And we’re excited to keep pushing this vision forward. Solving for the right problems When we started Golioth, we planned to be an omni-platform that worked with every standard and technology out of the gate. We quickly found out that we didn’t have to be everything for everyone. We could help engineers faster with a narrower focus and extend the platform as…