nami raises $10.5mn for digital sensing infrastructure
Jean-Eudes Leroy of nami
nami has announced close of its series A financing round, raising $10.5 million from investors including Verizon Ventures, Amavi Capital, INSPiRE and Aconterra.
nami enables enterprise customers to deploy intelligent presence, motion, and situation-aware IoT services. The company’s platform ingests raw sensor data, augments it into actionable metadata, and uses it to trigger automation across entire IoT environment, delivering use cases. Over the past two years, nami has developed a platform for software-based sensing applications, featuring sensing topologies and associated intellectual property. With this new funding, nami is poised to expand its team and geographical presence to deploy its advanced digital sensing infrastructure across residential and commercial buildings on three continents.
“This funding round empowers nami to achieve our mission of building an ecosystem of AI sensors that cater to IoT players, internet service providers, insurance companies, and others across multiple verticals,” says Jean-Eudes Leroy, co-founder and CEO of nami. “Our innovative nami app brings peace of mind to families with security, safety, and wellness use cases while ensuring the utmost privacy. Additionally, our partners’ applications and dashboards utilise data from our API to enhance automation, complement their security solution and improve health outcomes in different types of environments.”
“At Verizon Ventures, we invest in companies whose innovative solutions leverage 5G and other advanced network technologies to deliver impactful new capabilities for both consumers and business customers,” says Michelle McCarthy, managing director at Verizon Ventures. “nami’s talented and seasoned team has laid out an impressive new vision for connected homes, transforming them into intelligent living spaces. We look forward to supporting them as they develop digital sensing infrastructure for residential and commercial buildings in Asia, Europe and North America.”
“We are thrilled to be part of the nami project, which aims to digitise walls and ceilings through non-intrusive sensing technology,” says Frederic Van Weghe, managing partner at Amavi Capital. “In the wake of the global agenda for carbon neutrality in residential and commercial buildings, the ability to deploy non-line-of-sight sensing technology across wide surfaces, detecting occupancy, is a major leap forward for the PropTech industry.”
“What a great journey to build investment foundations for nami and proactively contribute to grow its business in Japan” says Ryosuke Takatsuki, representative director of INSPiRE Mutualistic Symbiosis Fund. “We are very excited by our cooperation with nami in Health & Wellness space for Mimamori project in Japan. Together, we pave the way for properly aging in place thanks to the right mix of AI and IoT technologies, made easy to deploy. Just Japan itself is a target market of 26 Millions elderly households for AgeTech.”
“IoT services on motion and presence are vital to reduce the carbon footprint and to increase the safety of people in residential and commercial buildings. nami’s multi-sensing platform realises this in a highly scalable way by using existing widely adopted technology that doesn’t require line of sight. Situation awareness of people can be a global gamechanger for many use cases including energy management, alarm detection, and elderly monitoring.”, says Ron Schuermans, founding Partner of Aconterra. “We’re thrilled to welcome nami in Aconterra’s smart building tech ecosystem and to support such an amazing team.”
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